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Individual Report - Global Bird

 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. 



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