Evaluation

COP Evaluation

From the start of the year I dint have much knowledge of the history of art, by going to the lectures every Wednesday I started to learn many things that I’ve never seen before. Each lecture had so much information that made me think about different aspects I did not think about previously and I’ve discussed this through my blogs of the lectures I attended. One of my favourite lectures this year was on colour theory, this was because of the way we look at colour as a form of visuals that we see in our everyday life.

The seminars we had were also very helpful in terms of how we should go about writing our essays, using a structure that allowed us to explain what we would be discussing and finding evidence that proves our knowledge of the subject. I really like the way Richard explained how to keep the essay interesting and come to a conclusion which sums everything up.

The essay was challenging at first because I only had a rough idea of what I wanted to write about, I started with an introduction that was explaining what id research in order to answer the question for my essay, but finding research was very difficult because I had a bit of trouble with Harvard referencing. But gradually after having my tutorial with Richard about my essay I knew what I needed to do and found so much information that supported my point and this made it very easy to write and discus information that worked with answering the question.

The practical side of things were also challenging at first, trying to come up with a concept that response to my essay in an animation had me thinking for a while. I came up with a rough Idea of showcasing the evolvement of technology and how we became animators from the start but then I reversed the process so that we could see where we are currently with animation and how did we get here, this worked really well because I could prove the point I was trying to get across which was “the technique (drawing) didn’t change but the technology has improved” so I created a story board that showcased someone drawing and going back in time to how animation all started by using a bunch of papers, All he did was do the same thing which was just drawing.

Going through the process of animating this story board was a bit difficult at first because I didn’t know how I would transition between each scene, so I researched for inspiration and I found some animations that showed modern transitions which gave me many ideas to transitioning between typography and the animated sequence of the person drawing, each scene took a while to make because of the process I undertook in Flash of making my own perspective lines to ensure each scene was similar but only a few things changed, but I enjoyed the process and was able to complete it.

This year was great and I have gained a lot of knowledge through CoP which I hope I can benefit from in the future.