END OF YEAR EVALUATION

I came to this course with an interest in animation and illustration and the desire to learn and experiment with new things. My main experience was in illustration and over the course of the year I have learnt new skills and improved my existing ones. I have enjoyed learning about animation and feel I have picked up the basics with key frame animation in Cinema 4D but my skills in creating 3D models are not as strong. I have also discovered new artists through research tasks such as Jeff Soto and Fons Scheidon who I find inspiring. This year has pushed me out of my comfort zone and given me confidence to try new techniques in my work, which is what I was hoping to achieve and these new skills will also hopefully benefit me in the future.

My projects I feel where the final piece was successful were the walk cycle, my storyboard, character design, the three illustrations and my animation short. Typically these were projects centred around illustration which I find myself gravitating towards but I have picked up basic animation skills which I have been practicing outside of college but it just doesn’t come naturally to me which makes it less appealing compared to 2D. Following this my weakest project was the 3D model creation in Cinema 4D as I found it fairly difficult to build the model but I learnt a lot creating it with the rigging and sculpting. My time management is also a sticking point for me as I have a tendency to push the research out of the way as soon as I can and spend more time on my final product thus forgetting to update my development which I realise weakens my projects.

To address my weaknesses in future projects I will –

Come up with multiple concepts and discuss them in depth with others more before picking one.

Spend more time on my research/development and look at new things out of my comfort zone for inspiration.

Plan my projects out and stick to the timetable.

My targets for over the summer are to –

Improve on my human drawing skills and try to settle on a style that works for me.

Look at more new artists to gain inspiration. I will mainly do this by browsing instagram and following artists I like.