Summative Evaluation

Over the course of this project I myself have been working with both illustration and animation work. First module I focused on illustrating most of my work for the personal practice brief because I felt this was the best way to help develop the weak areas of my drawing skills that I needed to improve on by encouraging me to produce something that was exceptional in its design. Then for the collaborative work I worked with my chosen group to formulate an idea together where we could all animate, our chosen brief was dazed and Confused which involved creating four individual animations which would later come together to make one show reel.

The reason for focusing on illustration in the first module was to help build my drawings but to also help me develop a style of drawing I could be satisfied with for animating, reason being because I have not been happy with my drawing style for sometime and felt when I traditionally animated that it looked poor in its presentation because of its roughness which I wanted to improve my self by practising regularly. This is why I entered briefs like Infected by Art was to help develop my art style.

For the part of the the responsive project, which was the collaborative brief I chose to do Dazed and confused because it was an animation brief which I could practice the new illustration style I had developed, I had also been practising animating and I wanted to put these skills into practice when approaching a brief I felt Illustrating again would be considered taking the easy way out of having to work harder or being afraid of failing and making mistakes, I knew at some point I would have to combat my weakness with in my animating.

Individually when working on these briefs I have identified that my ability to illustrate and have been satisfied with what I have produced which has allowed me to move on both with the individual and collaborative briefs. This mainly because when I was not happy with my previous drawing style I would take a very long time to develop a drawing, because I would have to correct every little bit of detail I got wrong, this would result in large amounts of time wastage, making me take me longer than I should have. During this process I felt that having developed both my animation and illustration skills have allowed all my projects for this brief to move forward. The group work involved the same issue, both my drawing and animating skills were involved and my whole team during the planning of the project decided each others roles and animation styles. My chosen type of animation was traditional which is personally strongest animating skill.

To help with the direction of my artwork and style I have been using Banksy because his graffiti art style is very similar to mine. I have practised the the stencil style my self have been drawing this way weeks before my collaborative brief took place. Took interest in Banksy's style because I really like the way his images looked, they were bold and really stood out and this is how I wanted my art style to look for my work so I used his work as a guideline for my own.

All the project work went well because I planned out all my work load my self and worked to both my personally set deadlines to make sure I was on track. From this experience I learnt new techniques for my animation and developed a new art style, also gained an understanding of what is like to work in a team and how good it is to have other team members who can help me develop a project with a thoroughly thought out idea. I identified new skills which I now possess which I can put to use for my personal work.