#302week12reflection

[sofs-studio]

DES301 - Week 13 Capstone

Hello! Back with another weeks reflection with only a couple more on the horizon!

However, I am not going to lie but I am really really behind now...

I am going to excuse that life has gotten in the way in terms of family situation, getting a really bad flu, as well as overdoing it in the weekends (if you know what I mean haha). Therefore eliminating some of my Mondays where I realistically should have been reset for the week. Nonetheless, I am trying my hardest to stop beating myself down on what has come, and rather focus on whats to come for the future deadline approaching. What I can say now is that capstone has definitely taught me some real world scenarios - life admin and antics happen, but work can go on a pause - however, you must take double the effort to get back on track otherwise you fall off the rails. Unfortunately, I have begun to fall off the rails...

Thanks to Driscoll (1994) What? So What? and, Now What?... reflective toolkit, I am back with another reflection of my somewhat work week...

What? I have made some major adaptions in my still imagery of the market campaign. I realised the typography was off and needed to contrast the stillness of the bricks, through texture in the type. Furthermore, I continued to play around with the character design and really irritated myself as though my design appeared 'cheap' and 'still'. I understand the campaign will eventually become animated - however, I still want the poster to be a standalone for those who cannot access the QR code that would then animate the design.

So What? Because I lacked the creativity to envision how to create dimension to my character, I went to gaining user feedback from my stream peers. Here I was told that the current figure I designed lacks detail as making it a shadow prevents the body of it being understood. I was then advised that perhaps adding a radial gradient to the figure would enhance dimension, as well as add a sense of strain/pressure to the character.

Now What? This constructive feedback was definitely appreciated and I admire my peers for being able to visualise this. Now, I hope to test out a radial gradient in hopes it may add the dimension I am needing. However, I am cautious of time and feel I need to make a big move to the animating stage of this campaign. I am not skilled in animation and will need various tutorials to assist me - therefore it is crucial I finish the still imagery and move into the beginnings of animating (hopefully middle of next week I will have the animation completed).

I fear if I do not have these deadlines met then I may not be able to complete my project to the highest expectation.

Rough deadlines assigned by myself:

October 9th/15th: finish still imagery, begin animating, continue 302 report

October 16th/22nd: finish animating, begin video production, complete visual summary

October 23rd/29th: continue 302 report, finish video production, print visual summary

October 30th-November4th: finish 302 report

//References//

Driscoll (1994). What? So what? Now what?