Research: Norwegian companies

Here's some of the companies that I might be interested in researching further:

http://www.stormstudios.no/
http://www.funcom.com
http://www.qvisten.no/
http://www.gimpville.no/

SWOT: Ablilities (aptitudes)

Strengths:

• Creative. I love to draw and I used to have a wild imagination, which is slowly returning.
• Very excited when discussing film ideas and when I get to contribute with something
  
• Empathic
  
• Patient

Weaknesses:

• Shy. I'm neither a leader type or an outgoing person, and tend to get overrun in creative discussions
• Too diplomatic
  

Opportunities:

• To get more confident in my own abilities by breaking out of my shell

Threats:

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SWOT: Skills

Strengths:

• Animation
• Modeling
• Cinematography
• Editing
  
• Digital drawing/painting
  

Weaknesses:

• Rigging
• Texturing
• Rendering
• Lighting
• Compositing
• Limited to 3D Studio Max and Photoshop at the moment
  

Opportunities:

• While studying here at Teesside University I was able to join fxphd.com, in order to learn Maya(for animation) and Nuke(for compositing). Also planning to learn anatomy for art
• I'll be able to work on my weaknesses in rendering, lighting, texturing and compositing in the VFE and CCA projects
  

Threats:

• I might not be able to learn compositing in time for the VFE project
• Anyone thinking about placing me in a rendering farm
  

SWOT: Interests

Strengths:

• I'm a film nerd and love to watch film, which I've learned a lot from. This also fuels my passion for animation and filmmaking
• Love reading tutorials and books on how to actually make things I'm interested in doing
• Meeting animators and concept artists and learn from them
  

Weaknesses:

• I am not too excited about the technical side of things, like long mathematic formulas and such

Opportunities:

• To meet with people, who know the craft I wish to pursue, at Teesside University and Animex
• To get a job where I work on something that I'm actually interested in and passionate about
  

Threats:

• Not being able to get work within animation, live-action or film industry for some reason

SWOT: Values

Strengths (what motivates me):

• Seeing a new (and well made) animated film makes me want to start animating right away!
• Knowing that "normal" people like me can get work within the industry by working hard enough
  
• Metal and rock music is motivating and make me work harder
• Other people who are excited about an idea
• People with experience giving me constructive citicism

Weaknesses:

• I get demotivated when working with indifferent and/or lazy people
• When tired I don't produce too much
  

Opportunities:

• To be able to meet people from the industry at Animex
• Working in a group and exchanging ideas in CCA
  

Threats:

• Working with people just focusing on money instead of the employees or the quality of the project (I'm looking at you Activision)
  

SWOT: Personal Qualities

Strengths:

• Hard-working
• Work well within a group of people
• I'm usually nice too people...
• Able to adapt to work with people very different than myself
  

Weaknesses:

• ...But can be too nice, which some people exploit
  
• I don't like lazy people. If they don't care about working then they shouldn't be on the project in the first place
• Easily stressed
  

Opportunities:

• To be able to focus on school without having to work part-time is going to take away some of the stress.
  

Threats:

• Working with lazy people or people just in it for the money
  

SWOT: Prefered lifestyle (career aspirations)

Strengths:

• To work in a company as an animator and/or concept artist for film, tv-series or games
• Work my way up to the point where I can contribute with ideas
• Be around people with a lot of people with common interests
• Work my way into a high-profile studio (Pixar, DreamWorks, Double Fine etc.)

Weaknesses:

• I don't want to work with anything related to customer service ever again

Opportunities:

• Working with what I consider a dream job
  

Threats:

• Not getting work related to what I'm studying right now
  

Creating a blog for SPB

I've just created this blog to document my research for the Studio Practice and Business module at Teesside University 09/10.
First thing I have to do is to complete my SWOT-analysis, which I find very difficult to do.