My Introduction:

Frame 500 from my Stop Motion short film project from year 2 animation program.  Mr. Kitty is about to fall all over Sunny's gift.

Hello!
My name is Nicole and I am in my third and final year of George Brown's game development program, specializing in animation.  I love being able to bring my ideas to life through animation.  Being a part of this program has been such a fulfilling experience. I've had the privilege of meeting so many interesting and awesome people who are just as weird as me, and we all share the same love of bringing things to life through movement, whether by rigging, animating, or adding special effects and lighting that make everything come together.
Being an animation student has allowed me to experience some really cool stuff such as experimenting with motion capture, or taking a stab at Stop-Motion production for the very first time.  The picture above is from a stop motion short I made last year for one of my classes.  
People probably don't really think about how closely link animation and photography are.  I was able to learn that through stop-mo creation.  The animation in stop-motion is created through taking a multitude of photographs while posing your character and set slightly differently to create the illusion of movement.  The photos are then strung together and played like a movie.  Therefore, having a good sense of the camera and photography in general is very useful for animation.
I hope I am able to learn new things in this course that can help me develop my animation skills even further.