reflections
i have to say i'm not particularly proud of my sting. this is definitely the brief i spent the least amount of time on and put the least amount of effort in. not because i didn't want it to be good but because i found myself not having enough time to do it.
i only gave myself a day to get this done and i really wish i had planned my time more effectively so i could have spent more time on it.
i do think that my final animation is ok but i know it could have been so much better and i think that's the most disappointing bit about the whole thing.
i usually like doing work that involves moving image, had such a good time last year doing gifs and doing video editing prior to that but the time limit on this made me kind of push my way through the process without enjoying it. my own fault but will keep this in mind for future briefs.
it was also the last push of such a long brief and i was definitely running out of momentum, patience and love for the work i was doing.
i did some level of storyboarding but didn't really explore a selection of ideas - i went with the first idea i had and i know it would have been beneficial to explore more.
i spent a whole week struggling to think of what i could animate and this put me off even more so when i finally came up with an idea i kind of just ran with it knowing that with a bit more patience i could have come up with something better.
i'm happy with the textures and colour schemes i carried over from SB2 and i think the concept for this is decent - i just know that with more time it could have been executed a lot better!
i think the part of the video i'm happiest with is the landscape - just after it zooms into the goddess's belly. i really like the lo-fi look of the water and the grass moving - where it is obvious that it wasn't my intention to make this a smooth animation. and this proved to me that my taste in illustration and image making is definitely on the lofi side of things - i like things to look a bit imperfect and i like the hand of the maker (as matt would say) to be quite visible in the final piece. and this is probably why i tend to be less drawn to work that is purely digital.
looking back, the text at the end with ben okri's name could have been a lot bolder too - it kind of gets lost in the background. so i would definitely make that green a tad bit darker and maybe even the overall font a bit bolder. in addition, the little blinking eye at the end could have been drawn out a lot better.
essentially i feel like this is more of test animation than a finished, polished one. and i think that's okay. could have done better but there isn't much i can do about that now besides making sure that for the next brief i'm using my time wisely and effectively. it's not bad it's just a bit rushed and i think it shows.
in terms of the whole process of animating my work, i would 100% do it again. it's so much fun bringing your work to life and working with moving layers. i felt that after effects brought the aspects i love so much about photoshop and imovie (hello 16 year old luci) in one and brought together two different aspects of image making i enjoy a lot. here's to better time management and better animations in the future x
vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/306258092
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