From the overall comments this stood out “confidence in your own visual voice is really
blossoming.” as this is something I really feel of late.
I feel I have so much I want to say and expressed myself, also all at once so a little overwhelming at time, feels like a huge mental wall that was blocking me has been knocked down
Overall the feedback is really positive and agree.
You have created masses of very creative and personal work for this task – work that has
developed on from the initial requirements. This shows how engaged you were with the topic.
I really enjoyed the exercise and I’m really glad it shows.
Your sense of humour is definitely something to bring into your work.
This is something the more I open up, people are going to see this side of me.
keep pushing the scale of your elements in the narrative to bring us right into the action at times. You have started to do this but could explore this further.
Agree with this, I think I stopped myself when I should have allowed myself to get into this more like the storyboarding exercise.
• when creating the animations try and keep the drawing quality used in your initial sketches. These are much softer with more delicate features.
I agree with this as well, could see it I think I slipped up as I was trying to hard to make the animation flow that I slipped the more it went on. It is a pressured brush so think I pushed harder – maybe could change the size as I get more heavy handed with my lines. – or step away for a period of time and come back when relaxed again.
• I am not sure, from looking at the character, if she is a child or not. Some of the poses / body shapes are much more adult. Is this confusion intentional or would the character benefit from a few more studies of the proportions and stance of children? It depends what you are trying to communicate.
Yes, at times I was trying to keep the shape, keep the movement and likeness of the character as the pages go on, some of the basic got missed here.
Maybe could have gotten my daughter to have pose for me to get a better “real” source.
you could also think visually about the height of the child more and let this dictate the
viewpoint / angle of vision of the viewer looking at the page.
It is something I’ve considered before, but overlooked as I used real drawing based on my daughter (Which was though my eyes) – this is something I will consider in the future. As well as really pushing the visual dynamics more!
Everything in the feedback is spot on, I think I personally lose my delicate lines the more tense I am when drawing, such as I go on as I animate or more pressure to get it right.
Now I am more aware it is something I can watch out for.
I have a little edit planned for assignment four as it is also a personal piece so want to feel it is my best work.
Part five is going to be almost a conclusion of myself this unit, it is the things I want to use my voice for.
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