When I was younger, the first movie I watched was Disney’s Tarzan, and I would watch it several times a day, almost everyday of the week. Till this day, I would watch it and still be moved by the art. Growing up, I wasn’t exposed much to the concept of art. However, I always found myself doodling on any sort of canvas, be it a textbook, handouts, even writing paper and books. I only seriously considered it to be a career when I got into polytechnic, as that was the first time I decided to take a risk and follow my greatest interest. I am very fortunate to be able to study the concept of art in depth, and create artworks that are expressed through colors and composition. Hence, I decided that I wanted to continue making art in the form of Illustrations and applied for this position in hopes for a great start in this field of work.

 

I feel that my greatest weakness has to be juggling between my personal life and work, since I tend to get so invested in work, I often forget to take care of my own body. Since my immune system is rather weak, I tend to fall sick quite easily, but not too sick, so I should still be able to continue working. I am working on this though, where I try to take vitamins if not drink loads of different teas that are good in different aspects for my body. 

 

I feel that I do meet the standard that you as a company are looking for, and am a very diligent worker. I take criticisms with an open mind, put them into good use to improve myself and my art. I also feel that my works suit the company’s taste and style, so I figured that this particular job will be a great start for me in this industry.

 

I have to say my most successful piece in my portfolio is the watercolor piece I did. Despite it being my very first watercolor piece, I think I managed to ulitize the colors well to make the art piece appealing. Not only that, I think the method that I used to blend and apply the watercolor is effective, where the end product did not look muddy or clouded. Other than that, I feel that the simple, minimalistic composition was easy yet aesthetic to the eyes.

 

To me, the most important factor is an open mind, since art has such a broad medium, and people have different opinions. So I find that with an open mind, not only can you apply to your work to make it better, but you might even learn a thing or two that you never thought of before. I find that you never stop learning when it comes to art, so it would be great to be able to take in criticisms if not opinions and learn along this journey of working in this industry as an Illustrator.

-What would you say your greatest strength is when it comes to Illustration?
I would say that my greatest strength is that the colors I use often compliment each other very well by contrasting each other in an aesthetic way. I know that I am rather weak in composition and perspective overall, but with the colors I implement in my pieces, people often overlook the flaws and compliment my use of colors and lighting.

I feel that mocap animation and regular keyframe animation both have their benefits and disadvantages and it really depends on the situation. Mocap is fast but the motion of the character is limited to the performer and in some more cartoony or fantasy setting in some films the desired motion cannot be achieve with mocap alone. So in my opinion rather then having one better than the other, having both working in tandem would be ideal.
  

-In your opinion, what is your biggest downfall?
To me my overthinking and meticulous nature is what I feel to be my biggest downfall, I tend to over think my actions sometimes get too caught up in details while working like I would think to myself how would others interpret a certain action I do and whether that action was the best choice or not, and it slows me down by quite abit, but I have been trying to just trust in my decisions more.