PPP - Final Evaluation

Throughout my first year, I have gained an extensive amount of knowledge about my skills and how well I respond to a brief.

I mostly enjoyed the design process, and developing characters and scenes. I also really enjoy the storyboarding process, and it was something I was contemplating focusing on further in the future.

One of the main inductions that I enjoyed the most was the model making inductions. I really like creating a character that I had designed myself, using plaster sine and wire. Because I really enjoy stop motion, and have experimented with this in the past, I would really like to pursue a response to a brief using stop - motion. In my second year, I will definitely consider focusing on the design aspect of an animation, and also hopefully create a character that I can animate using stop motion

I was hoping to develop my technical skills throughout this year. I feel like I have gained an understanding of photoshop more, and how to use a tablet too. However, I was hoping to have a lot more knowledge. I do feel comfortable using photoshop, and it has been the main software that I have used for my animations so far. I still find it difficult to use a drawing tablet. Mainly because I am a lot more comfortable using more practical mediums. From these modules I have learned that I should stick with what I know I am comfortable with, which is mostly hand drawn animation.

Because I had learnt early on that I prefer the more practical side of animation, I decided to do the last brief using oil paint on glass initially. Because it was a title sequence, I wanted the images to be simple but effective and textured. However, because of technical issues, over and over again, I had to switch my idea to using oil pastels on black paper. Which gave the texture I really wanted, but did not turn out how I imagined in the end. I definitely aim to successfully create an animation using paint one day, but I will probably have to do it in my own time, due to lack of time that is allocated in a brief.

Overall, I have learnt a lot of important skills and also important information about myself from this year. I definitely pursue the more hand-drawn side of animation. I plan on collaborating with peers over summer to create some short animations in my spare time, and I hope to hand draw the parts that I would be doing.