Applied Animation Module Evaluation

This Module was probably the most productive one that i've participated in. The first studio brief was a very good introduction to 3-D modelling, something that i've never actually had experience in but I wanted to get better with.  The project itself was making 3-D models of trucks, and then making something small that was simple enough in its design to look nice when we made it. A lot of people ended up going with their phones, but I chose to use my Baymax bracelet.

After we got done with that brief, they assigned us a project where we either had to work on a title sequence of our choosing or go with idents for a set of TV channels.  A few of my classmates decided to go with the idents, but most of them opted to choose a book to make a title sequence of. I was one of them. I wanted mine to give me a good introduction to special effects and green screening, something i've only done once and that was with my father when I was eight. So it wasn't really an introduction as much as him doing most of the work for me. Still, I was determined to figure it out so I chose to put in a small live action sequence and put in special effects. For this I mainly used Trapcode Form and Starglow, which is an effect within Adobe After Effects. I also needed to learn how to key out the green screen and edit in a moving staff into my actors hand. Along with costume design, partial set design (I made a background in Photoshop to use for it.), Directing, Storyboarding, And managing the entire project by myself. I had to outsource some of my work, so I got classmates and Commissioned artists from inside and outside the school to help me. I probably spent around 80+ Pounds on this project altogether, but I think it was worth it. Even though the thing that cost more than half the money I spent never actually got here on time (See My blogpost about the project if you wanna hear more about that). I wasn't able to show my final project to my classmates for Critique because i hadn't rendered it out yet. I assumed since the class day ended at 4pm, that was the time we would all sit down and review it. But instead it surprised me in the morning and I wasn't able to show it. I still had enough time to get it done though, and even fix a few minor tweaks that I didn't see before. I was able to tweak an sfx sound that I was having trouble with too. There was even enough time to put a final edit on all of my blogposts before posting them to my blog. So over all this project was by far the most fun out of this module, and even in some sense this entire year. For me, at least. The module was really interesting too, I learned a lot of skills that i'll probably be using the rest of my life, and improving upon as well.