Evaluation

Throughout both stages of this module I was out of my comfort zone. I chose to do an animation for stage 2 simply because I thought the whole idea of the module was to be out of your comfort zone. Personally I think I did pretty well considering how much I expected myself to do. I got an example animation completed as well as a 35second long animation. When watching the animation people may think it looks simple, but that was the point. I didn't want to add colour or anything, I wanted to keep it to pencil/pen and paper. If you actually watch it carefully it was actually challenging in a technical sense. It wasn't easy trying to get the angle of the stair case right to make it look like 'they' were actually moving up the stairs. Also, I have wrote that I did the animation to a song, and yes I did, however, realistically, I wasn't going to be able to literally do an animation to a song as a typical animation is 24frames a second. I just based the 'story' on the song.

Yes I do feel like this project was a weakness in nearly all ways. But I was trying hard to try something new, try something I haven't really had chance to do before. I wanted to build new skills and get out of comfort zone, like we were asked to. I was experimenting. Maybe I didn't do as well as I could of, or as well as someone else may have done. But I tried, and personally I feel because I tried I now know how hard animation is, I know whether or not I would be happy doing it again in the future, and I now know what it takes to do it. Perhaps I won't take it up as a career but I've always wanted to give it a go, and now I have.

I definitely would like to try animation again but probably in my spare time or for a project when I have longer to complete it in, when we haven't got 7 other projects going on at the same time. I'm not going to completely rule it out. Overall, yes I am happy with my result for my animation, because even though I was busy doing the other workshops as well, I was able to complete the animation to a certain point as well as getting some wrapping paper ideas done as well. Because I was pushing myself I feel that maybe next time I will try and only take one thing forward instead of two, however, I think my wrapping paper results are a success, I would happily buy them in a shop and so would people I've asked, which I think is a great result. Finally, I think in the future I will definitely think about what is actually achievable in the amount of time that we have been given, and what I can actually realistically get completed to a high standard in the time we have.