PictoPlasma Conferences:

Here I will talk about my favourite PictoPlasma Conferences that I attended while in Berlin:

Cecile Dormeau: 

Now this is an artist who fights for women rights, Cecile is an artist based in France her conference was so inspiring as she told us all how she began illustrating all women from different ethnicities to all different shapes and sizes, her style is quite simplistic however she is able to transfer such a powerful message through her work:

Rex Crowle:

Rex Crowle the designer of little big planet and also tearaway did an amazing speech he went into so much detail about his work and about how he created videos games and also about new projects that he was working on, looking through all of his work was amazing and fascinating for me: 

Mr Bingo:

Finally my favourite conference of the entire festival was mr bingo, he is a UK based artist and his deal is that he sends awful messages to people on postcards for money... yeah I know weird right, his style is traditional like and his humour is amazing overall he is one of my favourite artists:

PictoPlasma Animation screenings:

During Our trip to pictoplasma we saw so many various animations screened within the Babylon cinema I will talk about my favourite screenings:

We Cant Live Without Cosmos:

This animation was a humorous and tragic tale about friendship and reaching for the stars (Literally!), the animation style was simple however the style helped to potray this story in such an amazing way I was dumbfounded by the end of it:

Mr Madilla:

This animation was beyond hilarious it was hilarious because the style suited it and the way it was set up like a documentary was a brilliant idea, the voice actor brought so much enthusiasm to the animation that it was hard to believe that it was not a real documentary:

Tusk:

This was another amazing animation that portrays a mammoth coming to the future and wanting to return back to the past and I have to say that this was one of the most heart felt animation I have seen in a long time, the style was simple but beautifully portrayed important issues such as isolation and depression even though they were represented through such a cute little sad mammoth: 

END OF THE YEAR EVALUATION:

This is my end of the year evaluation of how I perceive myself over the past year and what I have achieved and what I could improve on overall, this evaluation will delve into the experiences that I have had and the ideas that I have formed and the projects that I have made throughout this, I will evaluate my progress along with my workflow:

Throughout the year I believe that I have not actually done a good job I feel like I have worsened since last in all honest, yes I have had concrete experience such as planning projects and writing treatments and proposals, I have had hands on experience within Live theatre within a creative industry however I feel that I have have not truly took the most I could have out of this year. for example with the Compositing module I felt that I was quite confident with the software to create animations with, I had the concrete experience and I felt like through that experience I have broadened my horizons of digital software and tools that can be used to create new and different types of animation and illustrations. I have also had concrete experiences with planning and organising a project within the beginning of the year through experiencing this I have now a new found experience of understanding the process of creating a project and organising it. However I feel like I could have done better with these experiences and I believe that because of my personal well being I could not do that due to having other priorities and problems I feel that I felt restrained and held back, if I were to do this course again and I could try and organise my personal flow along with my work flow I might be able to push myself further and reach my targets that I had set myself over the year.

I have planned and created targets and goals for myself this year which I stated that I would try my best to experience and experiment with new styles, techniques and software however what I have done is attempt a small margin of this, I felt like I was going at conceptualising ideas and brainstorming however I could never think of ways to create a solid plan for these brainstorms and the plans that I had made. I feel like I lacked the effort to bring the concepts that I had formed to life, whether it have been because of the lack of skills that I possessed or because of the lack of experience that I have had with certain software and tools and simply because of the fear of failing so not having the courage to try in the first place. If I were to do the year over this part of the course I would focus more on creating my concepts and actually putting a lot of thought into them instead of idle daydreams without concrete thought. 

Overall looking at the quality of my work I did try my best to make good work however I felt I was lacking in the creative aspect of my work, however I felt like I was quite motivated for the written aspect of my modules, however collectively I believe that I could have tried harder for my creative part of the course through various means and any means necessary. if I were to repeat this year then I would focus on improving the quality of my work and try my best to experience new techniques and opportunities for me to create good and professional work within the modules and within the course, I have done some good side projects of my own accord however I feel that I could have improved drastically on the quality of my work for example with the compositing module I could have created much more unique designs however I had simplified the work down and I Focused more on the writing aspect of these modules. 

Finally I believe that my targets for this year would have that I would have tried to create more independent pieces of work and actively went on my own and focused on making various pieces made from different styles and from different software and different techniques, I believe that I did this over summer last year as to prepare for the second year and I have experimented with various different inks and other traditional methods however I believe that I could have tried my best to exit my comfort zone more often and try and experience new and different ways to create work such as collage or digital formats if I were to improve I would have to actively experiment with also sorts of processes so that I can improve on my artwork and improve on my workflow.