Positives:
- Overall I think that in the crit - when Matt showed all the gifs on the board - they generally got a positive reaction. I am quite proud of what I achieved really, considering that I had never done any animation before whatsoever.
- I think in this brief I really wrestled with the concept of what a gif could be and what I wanted to achieve. A huge part of this I think was using my blog more to write informal rants or ideas.
- In this brief I can also see that I am now pushing myself - because when I already made gifs I still made myself make more in order to improve and create something better. Creating some gifs in the early stages allowed me to do this, so...in future I think I should try and make my final work before a deadline so I have time to review/improve/recreate it.
- Using a timetable - alike to the picture book brief - also helped me hugely to plan and organise my time more effectively.
- I feel like I have really learnt some valuable lessons from this brief about how to make an effective gif - simple is better, to focus the composition and movement and the importance of crafting.
Negatives:
- I wish I had spent more time experimenting with different mediums for the handmade gif and the 3D gif.
- In the handmade gif I felt like the coloured pencil was appropriate, but I did not achieve the kind of flowing natural look that other people made in their hand-drawn work, maybe this was just down to bad crafting?
- The 3D gif I found really fun and simply wish I had started it earlier so I could have experimented with making lots of different characters in a variation of materials.
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