Ashley Hawkins (Amateur Hobbyist) User Persona

Ashley Hawkins, 22 year old drawing hobbyist looking to learn some basic animation skills through rotoscoping

Ashley is a 22 year old from Chicago, Illinois. She has always had a passion for drawing, and was part of art clubs all throughout her middle and high school career. She has a passion for drawing pictures based on photos she takes around her neighborhood. Recently she began to develop an interest in animating, as she would like to combine it with time-lapse photography to create animated versions of life in her neighborhood. She would like to take these animations and distribute them publicly through social media, and also to build a portfolio to help her get into art school and later help her get a job. Ashley would love the Snaky Business app as its rotoscoping tools would be valuable for her self education on the process, and because it is free she doesn't have to divert money from her art school tuition savings to use it. This is important because she has work responsibilities to worry about so she won't always be able to spend as much time working with it as she wants, so if it required a paid subscription to use she may ending spending money without getting her value out of it. She's also hoping that because it's free she can find forums on the internet where other beginners discuss the app so she can ask questions and insert herself into the community.