At the start of this project I wanted to make sure I was
part of a strong and big team, I didn’t really want a leader role, my main
objectives were to be the story artist and an animator. The starting phase was
all we could of asked for, all of us coming up with great ideas and being able
to come to a final decision quite quickly. After we decided on the bird being
our main character, I went and did multiple tests of different birds learning
the difference between their fight patterns. When the story was finalized, I went
on to the story-boarding which was a great experience and it was a process I love
as I got the creative freedom to come up with shots and create the first iteration
of our animation, the final animation is a close following of the storyboard
which pleased me so much. I thought I chose I great group, and the potential we
had was incredible however the groups decline started with Jolanta dropping out
and at the time she was our art director. This left a hole in the group and
with Alisha never present the load of work was greatly increased the other team
members, mainly Elena and Aidan. I think adding Aidan to the group was a key
part of its success as he is quite disciplined and offered to do a lot of jobs
and came through on them. Elena was the backbone of the team and we all would
of failed without her. I did the animations I was given to the best of my
ability as I didn’t want the quality of the animation to suffer because I rushed
the process. I did multiple passes for each shot as from experience I found there’s
no way around it and its much better to gradually build the animation focusing on
the key poses and the timing. I found that if I got these two aspects correct
the rest of the animation would look fluid and smooth. I do feel that I was the
only one who kept the design we had agreed on. The only disappointment I’ll have
is that the bird changes throughout the video, but I did do the majority of the
animations so it should be quite consistent. In conclusion I truly believe that
if the group was whole, and stayed working together we could of created a
master piece. I do think have made a wonderful and ambitious animation and am
more than proud to show it off to whomever I can.
The first actual lecture of university was what i expected, a briefing of our first module. Most of the lecture consisted of Johnny beating the Gibbs' reflective cycle into our heads. I can see why the university wants us to utilize this type of reflection and I will definitely refer to it when I am first writing up my blogs, but in time i know that i will have each area of the cycle memorized, which can only help in my writing skills and well as my own self analysis. This module is on going throughout the year and we are tasked with writing a magazine article about an aspect of animation we are passionate about. Initially my intimidate thought was to look at the animation technique of One Punch Man as it i know it is a particularly difficult style of animation and i captures movement and speed so vividly. I do believe i should do some wide ranging research and look at other animation techniques that intrigue me.
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