Doing it the right way!

So the other day I decided that my workflow needs to be correct to the job ill be doing in a company once I leave University.

By this I mean using fellow students on my course to create the correct pipeline in the industry.

I'm a compositor... Which means my skills are going to be specialized in taking live action and other 2D elements and making them look real. This is fantastic! BUT... My previous problems in my workflow have started at modelling. I can model and I don't always mind doing it but my job is to be a compositor and not to model. I find that this is where the quality falls in my work. I NEED to get past the modelling stage, skip over the animation stage and jump into compositing. If I don't do this I fear that my skills in compositing are going to be shadowed by my lesser skills in modelling and other areas of the pipeline.

So because of this my decision is to find other students willing to aid each other in our task of our Final Year Project. My fist steps are to find a modeller and an animator happy to work in a pipeline where they do their specific skills and they take the credit for them. Then they pass the assets onto me and I use my specific skills to composite the assets into a background plate or whatever the shot entails.

I was then stumped in my own thoughts...

What if I don't get into a larger studio and I need this generalist skill. Fear struck me! Yes I can model and yes I can animate but they're not roles that I work well in. Do I take back my last thought and just get on with it?

I cant... My goal IS to get into a studio as a compositor and that will be what I aim for.

So from here on my task is to recruit people with any areas of skills that I feel I lack in and focus on my job and that alone. This way I can get the best out of my work and focus on getting that dream job.