At the beginning of this project, I was quite worried that it would be too difficult. Whilst I enjoy research based work, Whilst I enjoy research-based work, I often worry that I go about things in a way that isn’t the most efficient or is even wrong. I have a tendency to second guess myself with research topics, often worrying that I’m not looking into the ‘right’ elements. However, I have found that this assignment has boosted my confidence in this. Researching a topic based on my own personal curiosity rather than pressure and necessity made me enjoy the process a lot more. It has also taught me a lot in the history of the animation industry in several regions and I even learned that I have a genuine interest in very early animation, particularly when it is tied to cultural or historical moments.

During our presentation of our poster, our lecturers had equal compliments and critique’s. hey noted that our poster was informative and well-researched, but also a bit too text-heavy. They also mentioned that our subject matter was a little broad, and if we had narrowed our angle down to a specific event or animation then our poster and presentation may be a little more cohesive. Looking back, I do agree with their criticism’s, I can see that our poster can look a little bit too text heavy and whilst we were each passionate about our respective subject matters, it did cause our presentation to come off as disconnected and rushed at times. This served as a valuable lesson in balancing information whilst presenting information visually without overwhelming the audience.

Moving forward, I will definitely take this feedback into account. I have learned the importance of narrowing down information and choosing a more clear subject matter for specific group projects, especially when visuals are involved. Overall, I am proud of our final poster and how we presented it, and I look forward to applying what I have learned to future projects.

When starting this assignment, I had already decided that I would prefer to research an area of animation which I was slightly less familiar with. I wanted to form an unbiased opinion and look deeper into the cultural history of animation, and other people in my group seemed to agree with this as well. And so we all discussed each region of animation and eventually came to the conclusion of pursuing our research around Korean animation.

As a group, we would have discussions in class but there were often times were people couldn’t stay behind too long in class to discuss this due to bus times and other obstacles, however we made great use of holding several voice calls in order to sort out our research and our poster. We would have frequent voice calls in which everyone would discuss how far they had come with their research and all share interesting things we had learned through our respective research. I found this to be really enjoyable and I loved learning the different crucial moments throughout history and how important animation truly was throughout the years.

During our lectures of other regions of animation, we would always watch a few very early animations, the first of each region. I have found that I really enjoy seeing these old animations and learning about how far every region has come in terms of animation. We had already decided that everyone in our group should research a different key moment in the animation industry as this was relevant to our angle. I chose to research the very early animations of Korea as I had already learned that I found it incredibly interesting to learn and watch these older animations and the cultural importance of them.

We used Canva to create our poster and went through several drafts before figuring out a poster that worked. We were all on a call together when we used canva for the first time, so our earlier posters were considerably lacklustre due to our lack of understanding of the website.

As shown, we had initially discussed using a colour palette that was blue, red and white. Whilst the idea of that colour palette was good, we definitely tried to balance each colour a little too much and so they don’t look particularly great. Thankfully, we got on another call the following day to discuss starting over with the poster as none of our current choices were presentable. On this call, we actually created some visually appealing posters and ended up going for the first idea created by Tabs.

We all narrowed down our research to bullet points to avoid intense visual clutter and walls of text. Admittedly, this proved to be very difficult. A lot of the points I had made in my research had to be cut out of the poster as it would use too much space, and it was difficult condensing so much information down to fit with our poster. With each other’s help, we managed to condense our information enough so that the poster wasn’t overloaded with animation.

We also all created our own little persona drawings to include on our poster to make it a little more personal to us !! I really enjoyed this and I believe it actually made our poster look a little nicer solely for the reason that the poster became more personal than just a project by incorporating even just a little drawing of each of us into it.

We created an extra page at the end of our canva posters for all of our references.