Evaluation

This project has had its good and bad points for me. I wanted to focus mainly on building characters and sets and the stop motion animating and so I did my own project and recruited help from Fiona for the Storyboards and Rosy for my character designs, set designs and post-production editing. Honestly, with the story that I decided to go with and everything that I needed to build, I think I set myself too much work to be able to finish it in time which was really disheartening. 
That being said, I really enjoyed making my characters and I'm so happy with how they've turned out, although if I were to make them again I would use a different material, perhaps latex, for their bodies and try harder to sort out 3D printing or another method for making their faces. 
I have learnt a lot in this project. Before I started, I had no idea how to build a convincing set or create 3D stop motion puppets. I still have a long way to go to make them industry standard but it is definitely something I want to practice more and look into next year. 
My biggest issue with this project was time management, as I fell really behind over easter while trying to finish my Responsive brief and this project has definitely suffered for it, and I have spent the last 3 weeks of this project barely sleeping trying to catch up all the work I needed to do. 
I have enjoyed learning how to overcome problems that appear while doing stop motion animation that I hadn't expected, as it is more limited than traditional and computer animation as they are real objects that can only move in certain ways, but I love the style that it creates.
I also spent a lot more on this project than I anticipated which was less than ideal, as I underestimated how much it would cost to make things to the standard I liked and how many props and characters etc had to be made. 

Overall, I have enjoyed this project but I would have liked some more time to finish it and get it up to a standard that I am pleased with, although I will be finishing it after the deadline in time for the exhibition. My stop motion animating does need a lot of work to make it better but I am enjoying the process of learning it.