Reflection on the module:

For this module I was afraid and lacked confidence specially in animating, given I have little to no experience in animation apart from failed attempts I did a long time ago. During the past weeks, Something I learned and felt the most confident in was using shape study to create characters with a body that communicates their personality and has and a recognisable silhouette which is something I even utilise in the other module and started practicing it on personal drawings. As well as using the rule of thirds, different camera shots and angles as much as I can to help display things nicely. However, I would like to practise more what we learned the last few weeks given it’s the part I felt I knew the least and barely had a few class exercises as experience, while what we had done previously was closer to what I knew so far. For animation, what I had to change would be my comfort style, which is far too realistic and detail oriented. I’ve adapted a simpler style to make it easier to animate specially in groupwork as well as trying my best to match it to the other group members style to have a nicer flow throughout the animation. When it comes to teamwork, I feel comfortable enough. Though because it’s different from the groupwork I’ve done so far given this is more creative, there was some adapting that needed to be done, such as creating a character everyone would be able to draw, visualising the ideas I thought of to easily share them with my group, similarly to that, visualise the combination of my ideas and other members ideas. I did find myself struggling at times, specially now when it comes to animating, mainly not looking at references out of fear from all the times I did, and the result didn’t look right, and overly doubting if I am able to do it which leads to art block. But I would not want to start over with what I have now as advantage. I feel it is necessary to go through my mistakes and little struggles to better understand what I am doing wrong and specially how to fix it, for example, not using references really shows, the movement the character is doing looks off and isn’t something you can easily understand without taking a step back and looking at references of someone doing the movement. In short, I really need to work on taking a step back to ask myself if it looks right or even if the concept itself can be done, I need to use references and definitely not doubt myself as much as I do to be able to practice more and familiarise myself with new programs, how they function and specially how to take advantage of them in my animation and utilise what I have learned so far to see what I can fix rather than having an over all negative view of my work.

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