END OF YEAR REFLECTION REPORT:

CONCRETE EXPERIENCE:

As I began this course in the year of 2014 in September I will remember how inexperienced I really was in the world of art as all of the practical work and various modules hit me like a brick, except this brick didn’t hurt but made me burst from excitement for the duration of the course. I have had various experiences with different types of formats within the first year of this course, from illustration to animation, from 2D, 3D, pixilation and stop motion. During this time I found that my major strengths were with 2D and coursework and research however through these experience I found one of my major weaknesses lies with development work as I find it rather difficult and most likely forget to produce notes based around my production depending on module. During the entirety of this year I feel that I am much more motivated to practice my artwork. Overall throughout the entire year we have done a various amount of work ranging from 3D models and rigging body models to producing various types of illustrations through life drawing sessions to metamorphosis. Throughout all of this practical work I have produced in my opinion mediocre work and over the summer I plan to practice in the subjects that I am most passionate about this mainly consists of illustrations and story telling so this will delve mainly into script writing and producing various illustrations and designs and different techniques and methods. Overall I believe that I can improve my skills through practice development.

REFLECTIVE OBSERVATION:

Overall throughout the entire year I believe that I have done okay and I haven’t really pushed myself to the limit and tried as hard as I can so I believe that most of the work that I have produced during this year is valuable experience for me and I believe that it is important to learn from these experiences and work harder within the second year, mainly for each module I believe that I had given the bear minimum to pass, to improve on this I believe I should produce as much development as I can and follow the criteria as much as  I can and schedule my time so that I have a structured time table for work. I believe that my timetable of my work over the year definitely needed improvement and that I did not structure my work schedule well enough. Mainly through all of the modules I felt that these experiences are readying me for the animation and illustration industry and through these modules I understand that there are delicate and important processes that we must go through to create a good animation or illustration. I believe that my main weaknesses throughout these modules were the 3D and animatics modules; if I wish to improve on these tactics I believe that I must practice creating storyboards and attempting to review various 3D techniques using cinema 4D, Mainly I believe that if I tried hard enough I would reach my real potential and as I was rather unfocused this year due to various factors I believe that I couldn’t put in as much effort as I hoped.

ABSTRACT CONCEPTUALISATION:

If I wish to improve on my main weakness and get better at my strengths I believe that I must practice various different animation and Illustration techniques over the summer. I have various different ideas for my summer project and I am incredibly eager to dive in and explore ideas such as creating an illustrated story and creating a comic etc. However to really improve on my weakness such as 3D and storyboards I must practice these, with improving on storyboards I must just practice creating stories and setting scenes for them. With improving on 3D I believe that watching online tutorials will be extremely helpful for my, although I do not wish to follow 3D as my particular style however I believe that it will be incredibly useful to know how to create 3D models and how to rig them, overall I believe that my main weakness is with modelling 3D models and creating a concrete model I believe that over the summer I must at least try to create a simple model in cinema 4D. Most importantly I must try to organise a well structured work time table to fit in and around my daily life, if I construct and follow this time table then I hopefully will have a well structured pattern to follow so that I can accomplish as much work as I can and use my time efficiently and correctly so that I can produce the most work within the specified amount of time, time management skills are my major concern at the moment as this will effect how much work is produced and how well it is produced.

ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION:

To put all of my ideas into practice I believe that it is important that I do look at tutorials for 3D modelling and that I attempt to create a simple 3D model within cinema 4D, I believe that a good idea for this is a stick figure body or a slender one legged body as I feel that it will become more difficult the more appendages that are involved the more difficult that I will find it, furthermore I hope to add more experience in creating story boards as within our summer project we are supposed to create storyboards I will used this to my advantage and practice various different scenarios so that I can get better at creating story boards. And finally to improve on one of my main concerns of time management I believe that it is important for me to create a schedule time table for me to follow over the summer and mainly create a well structure time table that can work around my personal time table, I believe that if I work hard in a certain amount of time each day I will be able to improve drastically.