Monday, 24 November 2014

The Classical Elements: Interim Crit

Today's interim crit went really well, despite the fact that I was extremely nervous to the point where it kept me up for the majority of last night. I have always been terrible at public speaking and I made a major effort to push myself out of and beyond my comfort zone in order to do this presentation and I am very pleased with myself, as I felt I did a good job (if I say so myself).

In terms of feedback I feel that I received some really helpful constructive feedback that will help me to improve my overall story and animation. The feedback revolved around experimentation with combining animation methods such as drawn and digital and experimenting with combining media, in particular, watercolour and digital. I am pleased that my storyline was seen as a good idea and my character design was also good, however, the digital character was preferred over the other experiments, which I didn't feel was the strongest. Having said this, the points they made, made me realise that I could experiment with adding textures to the characters in Photoshop in order to create the desired look I want. I was really grateful for this advice, as I feel that this will make it easier to create if I like the style of it. My peers also approved of my audio choice and think that having natural sounds will work well with my animation.

I have taken a lot on from this feedback and I feel that the points made were very valid and were good suggestions for improvement. I will definitely experiment with more digital drawings and adding different textures to my drawings to see how this looks and how it affects the style of my animation. I will also experiment with combing both digital and watercolour to see how this also affects the animation.

Overall, I feel that it was a really successful discussion and I am pleased with the feedback I received for my work.

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