I believe the project went well despite me changing the direction i wanted to take it many times and having to adapt my work to fit the new idea. Due to this, my final project probably wasn't quite up to the standard i would have expected from myself in the area i enjoy most. The extra week to get my project done enabled me to edit and add to the PowerPoint presentation of my character sketches to a better level. I have completed the presentation but had i had more time i would have liked to have digitally redrawn the sketches.
I am vaguely pleased with my project as i feel i could have done better but because of the workload i gave myself due to changing my idea, the deadline became increasingly less reachable throughout the project. Perhaps next time when i choose to do something similar i will motivate myself to complete an idea and tweak it rather than change it completely, loosing time and work because of this builds up and only means i am then behind in the work that is to be submitted. Or maybe think through the possible alternative ideas for a project before committing to one that i may find too inaccessible.
My ideas changed quite drastically from start to finish as i jumped from fiction to illustration, witchcraft to sci-fi. I have however learned a few more things in the process in programs and sites such as PowerPoint, when putting together my animatic, and Blogger, which, in my opinion is easier to keep up to date as i can have easy access to it at home and allows me to add all relevant information concerning my project and have it all in one place.
When i was finally focused on the project aim i researched an animatic artist on YouTube called Andrew Cherry. My main inspiration for creating a rough animatic myself came from watching his pre-visualisation video: My Deer Friend, which then resulted in me creating characters and putting together a story behind them. I went on from drawing sketches of characters to digitally redrawing them just to give them a a bit of definition against the black and white animatic i had started.
I have enjoyed most aspects of this project, besides the stress of giving myself too much work to get done, and i would definitely consider doing something like this in the future as i would consider illustration to be a preferred pathway. I will just have to make sure i narrow down the possible creative outcomes before committing to one straight away.
