LAUAN403 - Task 2- Appeal and Staging.

Our objective in this study task was to create and design our own character and create background information, a model sheet and a turn-around sheet of the character we design. We began by sketching different facial features such as eyes and noses, and slowly constructed our own character with it's own personality traits and attitude, as well as background story.



Critical Analysis

Positives:    

• Interesting character design and concept.
• In-depth character background and character traits.
• Simplistic yet compelling character design.
• Well displayed examples of character's personality.
• Improved character design over time.

Criticism

• Improvements to be made on drawing abilities for the character.
• Line-work needs improving
• Improvements on expressive drawings of character
• Improvements on dynamic poses

For the second part of Study Task 2, we were tasked with creating a scenario for our characters to experience and create a story board using photographs of photographic poses of ourselves and others. We were also instructed to create masks of our characters, however this was optional. On this story board, we had to describe each key scene briefly.

 Critical Analysis

Positives

• Well framed photographs for storyboard scenario.
• Well designed mask for the photographic stages.
• Well thought out and designed scenario
• Good use of character personality displayed through storyboard scenario.
• Diverse camera angles.

 Critical Improvements

• Improvements on overall practical drawing abilities.
• Improvement on character proportions and anatomy.
• Focus on archaic character personality. 
• Inclusion of more dynamic poses in storyboard frames.

LAUAN402 - Study Task 2 - Who am I?

• Why did you choose to study this course?

- Fascination with how cartoons, anime and movies have had so much work put into them to create aesthetically pleasing visuals and story telling.

- To create my own characters and stories and bring them to life using animation.

- To try out various different types of animation. (3D, Stop motion etc)

- To meet like minded people who share my interest in animation, and both inspire and be inspired by the work of others.

- To pursue a career in animation and hopefully make a name for myself.

• What do you want to learn in your time in the course?

- How to animate like a professional and learn all the techniques to help me become good at animation.

- How to improve my artistic capabilities and shape my own unique art style.

- How the creative industry uses animation in all sorts of forms, such as advertisement and entertainment.

- Why animations are so important to the creative industry and the impact it's had on society.

- How I can create my own and unique animations.

• What skills do you think are your strengths?

- I am very creative.

- I'm good at character design.

- I'm good at story telling.

- I can create decent artworks in simple styles.

- I'm flexible in my art styles.

• What things do you want to improve?

- Organisation of work / time.

- Drawing from life.

- Anatomy.

- Working with others.

- Drawing. 

• What ways will you evaluate your work?

- Peer reviews.

- Self critique.

- Public critique.

- Comparing to other work.

- Taking down notes of work.