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Sorry everyone for the late post, yesterday was a bank holidays and loads stuff been happening, loads of changes are happening, bit crazy in the house of Liz. Got my marks back today and super happy and surprised to get a distinction by the skin of my teeth I may add for my Illustrations, but still a long way being any like of pro yet. So that positive start  and it motivated  me to do my summer project because my outside life getting me down. Then that bring me too that I have no lovely sketch to show you, only that I have side project I'm working on, as well as my summer project, so hopefully next Monday I can show the fruits of my labour. 

Now Practising time! 

Laters

Chapter One - New beginning

Summer Project

I started to work on my Summer Project last week and the task we have been set is to either create an animation short or short Illustrated story. The primarily is that character based narrative and need to have done for the start of September -

• Fully realised script, typed and presented in the correct format
• Concise set of complete storyboards (roughs/sketches/thumbnails)
• Supporting character designs and back stories  

We are not to do final pieces!

Okay I been a super busy bee and done the script all set out correct (I hope) and written short back stories for my characters, done some research and started to do some concept character designs. Here main character concept, still in the works, Kit a Lycalopex that has telepathy and can speak mind to mind, simple one word answers. I'm leave to story a mystery for now, for I may make some changes. I also put the concept of my second character young master, I not given him a name or I not told you his name in this story because I have other story that lock together with this I like to keep an air of mystery to it. Nothing set in story at the minute and what I drawn today will likely to set change a bit to fit better with my story concept, plus I'm not happy with with the young master outfit and I need to improve Kit and make him look more unique. Kit based off Fennec foxes, I put an example below. I love the final fantasy games and I think the outfit will be inspired from them, but at the minute it's all ideas.

Slow going, hopefully I keep my confidence running through the summer. Now to get a brew on and draw ^_^

Book Two - little bit of fun

Happy Sabriel Day!

One of favourite Books Sabriel by Garth Nix and didn't I promise I keep posting.

It's been 20 years today the day, so in honour I done a super quick Illustration. 

I kept it simple and try different style than I'm used too, some of it not to bad.

  

Anyway here is Mogget and Sabriel fishing ^___^

Chapter twenty One - The End

Just Kidding... just for this academic year anyway.

Feeling dead self conscious about this last post, so you can't read it

No don't read past this line

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NO please....

Stop...

Okay last line no crossing this line

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Don't be too hard on me...

End of Year Reflective Report

Concrete Experiences

Over this past year I have learnt new IT skills and CAAD skills. Expanded my knowledge of the different types of animation and researched many artists, Animators and Illustrators. Within IT/CAAD I have learnt how to use Adobe Photoshop in a more effective way and now know little more about Adobe Illustrator, Adobe after effect, Adobe Premier pro, Final cut, and Cinema 4D, enough to be able to create an animation or Illustration. I have gained a good foundation of knowledge in animation and different area of animation for example Direct film making, Pixilation, Rotoscoping, Stop Motion, 2D Stop Motion, Mixed Media, 2D Animation and 3D Animation. I have broaden my horizons on the different styles of art by looking at loads of different artist, Animators and Illustrators for example, James Jean (artist/Illustrator), Norman Mclaren (animator), Richard Williams (animator), Andre Bergs (animator) and Amy Sol (artist/Illustrator). These artists that I have looked at over this year have helped shape my own art and help me to shape my own style of drawing. We had visited Museum to get ideas for our projects and were useful for thinking up new ideas. Part of one of our module projects was life drawing, and this I found very helpful in proportions and drawing human body. This is something I’m going the practice in the summer holidays. I have always been interested in 3D and the human anatomy and getting proportions right on my character drawing has been difficult and in this past year I feel improved a lot but it still something I wish to work on through the summer holidays.

Reflective Observations

Looking back over the past year on my strengths and weaknesses and how my final pieces and animation turn out, I feel I have done okay, I not total failed on anything nor have I been outstanding, which I feel I bit sad about. I learnt a lot and I feel it been reflective in my work, for I think my work been well rounded and the quality good. My strengths have been over this past year were project manage, time planning I never been late handing in my modules and they always been as complete as much as I could be done within the time frame. In addition I believe my software skills and that I can learn quickly on how to use software for example, Cinema 4D. My weaknesses over this past year were to begin with was research, showing development and the documentation of that development with link that with research. But as progressed through the year I feel research has now become strength for me. My documentation is my biggest weakness for me because my grammar and spelling are very poor and I’m working on this, on reflection for the future I’m really going to work on vocabulary for the summer. In one area I found to be weak in was storyboards it was my worst module and thinking about angles and the flow of the story. Overall I enjoyed this year and I hope to carry this over what I learnt over to the next year. Doing this course has given more of passion for the subject and I will hopefully make it into a career within the industry. 

Abstract Conceptualisation

Forming an idea or ideas, so in the future I will expand my knowledge by looking at tutorials, keeping up to date with my favourite artist, animators and Illustrator while keep an eye out for new ones by using programs like Instagram. Also I like to improve my weaknesses, for example my grammar, spelling and to do self-improvement on my drawing style, in particular body proportions and 3D model creation.  I’m going to keep sketching and writing down ideas, keep a scrap book of media (for example magazines), keep myself in tune with what’s happening today within the animation industry. I would like to collect more books on Illustrators I like, like James Jean new Illustration Book, Fables: The Complete Covers and Rift. I think I need to look at comic/manga to help be in creating storyboards and to watch loads of different types of animations to help me to narrow down which field of animation I want to go into. I like to refresh my English and hopefully improve my grammar, spelling and vocabulary. On the Illustration side I like to work on sketching and black ink/fine liner and may be work on hand drawn animations, I love folklores and myths and may be get chance to work on some Illustrative pieces. A friend showed me Jaw cooper work and really like that style and might try that style of drawing for myself and create stories for with them.

Active Experimentation

This is where I’m writing my targets to do for over the summer holidays. Firstly I like research and practice body proportions then hopefully create a model in cinema 4D and make an advanced rig, so that entail research on rigs and cinema 4D.  Secondly I will keep a record/scrap book of media (for example magazines) and keep writing down my ideas and sketches over the summer holidays. Thirdly I read more comic/manga to help me create storyboards and practise making them. Also to watch loads of animations to help me brakes down my own animation to help improve them. Fourthly I like to work on my writing, grammar, spelling and vocabulary for I like to get one First (over 70%), if I can. Fifthly I like to treat myself to some Sakura Pigma Micron pens, a good mechanical pencil and some good paper and work on hand drawn sketches, which tell story/tale. Finally may be making them into hand drawn animation/flick book. 

Chapter Twenty - A Twist in the Tale

It must be done!

'May the Fourth be with you'

and enjoy your bank holidays *Wink*

Progress

I finished all my Illustrations, I would of liked to worked more on the second but I managed to injured my left hand (drawing hand) by fitting a car seat into a sport car, yeah don't do its quite difficult and may result in injury. So I finished up what I can and all ready for hand in *thumb up*.

Targets

I hit all my targets and there's just a bit of polishing left to do.

Today I been thinking and writing up my reflective report, What I like to do with next couple of years. I have come up with few ideas I would like to try or hopefully get to try over the next year and hopefully get to do them in my projects. 

Keeping positive is tough and following my dreams even harder. I hope I can keep posting this blog. Well typing this blog been interesting with one hand. It's drawing close to final post for this academic year, my final post is about refection and goals for the future. I'm going to be posting over the summer on what I'm up too, YAY... or lack of work done or they be about sleep rending posts on how my child potty training going or not going *sigh*

Na.. I would do that to you.