Invisible Cities - Reflective Statement


The Invisible Cities project has taught me a lot about what is expected on this course as well as introducing me to the very basics of the software that I will be using throughout the next 3 years. I felt that I started off rather well with this project but became a little over whelmed with trying to balance all of the work that I had been given from the different lessons.

I felt that my main strength in this project was my research into the design ideas that I could use for the main look of my chosen city. I already had a strong understanding of how research can help with a project so I found it easy to sail through this part with ease, even if my ideas for my chosen city did change half way through the project. I find it easy to visualise in my head what I felt the city could look like and could think of strong references that I could use to help me improve them or to go back to if I wasn’t able to find a way to get out of a problem.

I did find that I had a lot of weaknesses in this project that I need to work on so that I can do any future projects a lot better and produce a higher quality product at the end of it. One of my weaknesses was my lack of ideas for the cities as I wasn’t able to think of that many designs for most of them, as I was doing my thumbnail sketches I found that I was running out of ideas by the 5th sketch or that they didn’t clearly show what I was seeing in my mind. The best way that I can get round this problem is to look at reference images and try to pick up small pieces from them and apply them to the ideas that I already have.

Another weakness I felt I had and that I felt let me down the most was my lack of experience with using the software, this mostly happened with Photoshop. I did try to use what I had learnt about the software in my final images but as I didn’t fully know how to get the most out of it my work did not have the desired effect that I was aiming for. The only way that I can get round this is for me to practice with the software and to find tutorials that can help me produce better images.

Overall I feel that I have learnt a lot about my own abilities and what it takes to be an animator as well as well as the work that is expected at University.

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