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g-i-g-a-uzumaki · 5 years

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What happened?

I think this project started really well. I thought (naively) that I'd get it done within the first two weeks. That didn't happen and I began to think I was behind the rest of the class. I went off for a week to recover from a serious bug that left me behind. My stubbornness dragged me behind even more making it extremely hard to catch up nearing the end I began to panic as i had only a week left but still had mountains of work to catch up with.

At the beginning we had to choose pathway Game Arts , Digital illustration and Illustration / narrative storytelling.I then wrote a mind map detailing my ideas for the story telling pathway. I chose my topic based on the theme of wellbeing at first. Then looking at the definitions of each theme I finally settled on the themes of Strangers and Altruism.

“Stranger means not knowing or being familiar with someone or some people.

Altruism mean the selfishness of oneself.”

I then came up with new designs of my characters Daisy and Edwin. After that we all did some photo bashing and being that my story involved a dog attack and cavarven. I photo bashed a caravan , some bloody hand prints and some dark clouds to make a very creepy and atmospheric piece of work. I do have to admit during my sickness and japan trip i did become a bit lazy and neglected some important stuff.

I tried to use a 3d tool called blender but could not get through the first 5 minutes of the tutorial that i was given as it confused me. I did not use my plaster cine model for my animatic as it was easier to draw everything by hand.

I was inspired by mostly Masashi Kishimoto’s manga Naruto and Kazue Kato’s manga Blue Exorcist (Ao No Exorcist). I used these two for the design of the main characters in my story. I used the colours and shapes of the faces to construct my characters emotions . Though i didn’t use it in any of my designs I was also heavily inspired by Steven Universe . I was also inspired by a very ‘adult’ koreon comic called Killing Stalking.

I was not able to achieve what I set out to do. I set out to make the story book and print the book off. I got two caught up with the little things. Like the colouring ..

The project was long and at points I wanted to give up . it felt hopeless , especially near the end but I'm hoping my work and this evaluation has pulled me through. I really love designing character and think that it went really well. I’ll try to do it in pieces and not do everything i like all at one.

In this project i've used photoshop a lot more. This has improved my skills. It has got me more familiar with the programs it has also adapted me to more organized problem solving. I put my frames into a timeline and this helped because now I know how to do a timeline and make different frames in order to make it look better.

I think that the thing that didn’t go well was my time spent doing one thing. I have a bit of a perfectionist strike. So even with my time plan if it wasn’t perfect then id screw it up and redo that body of work again. This accompanied by my illness and trip to Japan really did make it harder for me to do the impotent stuff. I should have experimented with different styles of animation and take things in that where around me EG. nature / Culture in Japan

I’d try to to not rip my work up if didn’t like it and I'd try to keep going and overcome my problems instead of giving up .

If I did something different within in the project i'd probably work even harder right from the start I'd do more work at home. I’d ask for help more when I got stuck or was unsure of what i was aloud to do.

Other people would probably think my work was an absolute mess. I will use my blog much more often in my next project and even if I don't like my work I will rip up my work I'll continue through and use so I can grow as an artist. I’ll also plan ahead instead of planning the week im doing the work / the day im doing the work. I will manage my time better by doing things that will and wont intrest me together .That means i wont leave the work i think is boring to the end.

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