Evaluation

When we were first given the, brief I was really into it because we had a chance to do what we want, and I really like briefs like that. Also it was very vague so we could do a lot of different things with the brief, and it didn't say what type of media we had to use, so we had a lot of options. I came up with a few ideas, but I forgot a few of them because I didn't wright them down. But I came up with more ideas after so it was fine.

I originally wanted to work on a different idea that I had, but I realized and was advised by Carolyn that, I should think about the time we have, and if I would be able to finish the animation in time. I decided to go with another idea, I had which was a whole lot more simple. I wanted to also use different media, in the the animation to show that I can create an animation using claymation, or stop motion, or using puppets, not just digitally. But because of the time scale, I did decide not to do it and just stick with digital animation In the end.

I found the research a little difficult to do, I don't know why I just did. But over all I did really enjoy this project, I found it fun because we got to do what wanted. As I was animating, I did find it a little difficult, because I of the angle and the view of the character. I found it difficult to draw the angle of the feet so, I ended up finding an image on Google on feet to use as a reference.

I didn't manage to complete the animation, I would have done more on it too, but I didn't because on the week we had off before we had to hand in our animation I was sick and had the flue and I had a few migraines, so I didn't do any work for a few days but when I got a little better and my migraine had gone I was able to work again but about half the week had gone by then. So I wasn't able to do as much as I wanted for my animation. I didn't give my character a face in my animation, because faces take a while to get right, so I thought to save time he won't have one.

The animation is based on me and so is the character too, I also based the dream my character has on me, I made the dream similar to the dreams I usually have, but I did change it a little to make it a bit more interesting. I really liked designing the villain/nightmare character for my dream, I really like designing the characters and animating that's the best part in the whole process for me. I had fun on this last project, also because we got to go on a trip to Hawes which was awesome.

If I redid this animation I would have not colored in my character, I would have left him as a outline/drawing with no colour. I would have done this because it would have gave me more time to animate, because I wasted a lot of time coloring him in. I realized this when looking at my classmates animation, they got more done because there characters weren't colored in it was just an outline. But over all, I really enjoyed this course and the projects given. This project is one of my favouraite projects we have done. The tutors have been great, and really helpful. Every student has been really nice and this has been the best experiance I've had. The time spent here has just been awesome.