Evaluation

I feel as my time management has improved from working in my collaborative group. I believe this was because I had other people depending on me and also because I enjoy working with textures and illustrations. However, I do feel as though I could have tried a lot harder for Studio Brief 1. I feel as though I find it quite difficult to present my work to other people as I feel like it’s not good enough against what other people can produce. It took me a while to actually find my collaborative group. Again, I feel as though my shyness can hold me back from trying to be creative. Even though I felt quite shy in my collaborative group, I feel as though I had quite an important role in helping with compositions and the designs of the final responses even though my backgrounds and illustrations were not used. I found that it came easy for me to discuss our decisions the more I got to know my collaborative group, but I found it hard to gauge what it was that my group wanted to aim for towards the end because I feel as though my team mates where quite flustered and worried about the deadline so they took it upon themselves to create the final design without anyone else’s input, which was quite hard to deal with. The way that I dealt with this was having an input into the composition of the posters and card designs. I am aware that I could have done something to have resolved this, but because the job of putting the final submission together was another team mates role in the group, it was too late by the time it came to submitting. I had done I could in the sense that I provided the elements that we had all agreed to used. However, I have learnt to try and communicate better when it comes to deadlines and working in groups. I do feel as though I need to push myself to not be afraid of failure or what other people think of my work. I will usually do quite a bit of work or sketches but will be too shy to follow through and finish if the end result is to submit the work to a public platform. I also feel a lot of pressure to work digitally which can discourage me to execute my ideas and concepts. However, I feel as though I have come to terms with the fact that it is okay for me to be comfortable having a more practical approach to my work. I have always preferred hand drawn animation, but I feel like I am not able to execute a hand drawn animation well digitally. From this, I think I will continue to have a more hands on approach to my work, and continue pushing myself to create. I found a few briefs that I wanted to enter that were taking place in Japan and France, however the submission fees ranged from £50-£100 which is something that I’m not able to afford. I liked quite a few of the D&AD briefs, but again money held me back from submitting to them.                                                                                                                                        I enjoyed evaluating my work on a regular basis. I tend to keep my blog posts as drafts for a while so I can break down the work load and keep going back to them when I think of more things to write about, however this can make my blog look a little confusing and out of order. I do feel like I need to work on how I discuss my processes and my work. I do feel as though I should have invested more time into my own individual practice for the module as I seemed to have focused my best efforts on other projects such as Applied, COP and Collaborative. Even though I prefere the pre-production side of animation, I still enjoy actually animating so it’s just a pity that I hadn’t realized this sooner. Overall, I feel as though I need to push myself to create things that I want to create. I also feel as though I need to find out what it is I want to be good at and pursue it, because at the moment I enjoy character designing and creating backgrounds for my other projects but I didn’t applied these skills to my response to my module as much as I should have.