This entire module was a ride from start to finish. At the beginning I had little or no idea on what briefs I should undertake, who I was going to work with for the collaborative portion, or what it was going to be like. Safe to say I'm fully aware of what I need and how its affected me over the module. While finishing this module, I am aware that technically I am one substantial brief short. I have two half finished briefs, but one of them I missed the deadline for and the other stopped updating before I could finish the last 4 I needed before the deadline.
Apart from that, My other three briefs went as smoothly as they possibly could. I was originally planning to start work on my Responsive briefs all the way back in December. I was going to be getting a cintiq for christmas so I could work over in Chicago during winter break. However, my parents ended up buying the thing 3 months too late. I got it come springtime, and I was able to work on it over spring break, but I would have liked to relax that time instead of rushing to finish a brief that I needed to finish by the end of March.
The first brief I actually tried to do after winter break was the Gold Panda Illustration and Cartoon Competition. I never actually finished the brief I was working on, but for some reason I am proud with the ones I did finish. The work I put into them was good, and I learned some useful skills while doing them as well. After I didn't meet the deadline I was still keen on doing them. So much so that I managed to finish another Illustration for the brief even after the deadline was over.
During February I ran into some more trouble. I worked on two briefs during that month, one I finished and the other was the second one that was half done by the end. The first one was loop de loop, a bi-monthly looping animation competition. The subject that was up on the website was for the word "tumble". Originally I didn't know that the deadline would be in March, so I was rushing up until the end of February to finish it. I did manage to by the end of February, which meant I was a month early for submission. Might I add, a submission that never came. I'm still waiting on the day that they announce the submission date, since they're changing websites and they've closed down their older one.
During the months of February and March I worked on a weekly illustration brief online called Onform. For this one I had to save an image that was uploaded weekly to the Onform website and draw over the shape they made and make it into an illustration of some kind. Everything was going smoothly up until the time where the person uploading the images stopped right after I finished the 4th one. They haven't uploaded since, and that is the main and only reason I never finished this brief. The module itself was fun enough, and let me experiment with new ways to digitally illustrate, but I really wanted to finish eight or nine and was only able to get half of that done.
During all of this I was also working on a Collaborative brief. This was D&AD's Desperados Brief. Everything in this brief probably went the best it could have in comparison to the others. I finished my animated portion of it well in advance as well as an illustrated portion that I wanted to get done. I actually had partners I could rely on for this brief so it's nice that I could work like that for once this year.
The last and final brief I did was called Do it in Ten, a monthly animation contest made by the people at Show me the Animation. They give you a word and you need to make a ten second animation based on it. The month I worked on it they had the word Transition. I knew that I was going to be going back to Chicago for spring break and I figured I might as well do a rotoscope of me going from Leeds to Chicago. I had never done a rotoscope animation before and I was keen on doing one, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity. I will say that It went better than I could have expected, I finished the brief a day early and on spring break that means more free time for myself.
Overall this module was pretty chaotic but I managed to get it done in time and I hope that everything I worked on is enough for me to pass.
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