During this module I have created a few scenes for an animated short, featuring the character I created earlier in the year. Unfortunately I wasn't able to produce the complete animation, due to the project being ambitious for me at the time, but I did produce a few animations for the project, and did quite a lot of experimentation, such as using 'Keylight' to green-screen in Adobe After Effects.The production involved the use of 3D, 2D, and some rotoscoping, of which I used the three methods to create 4 different animations, one 3D intro scene featuring the street and sewer scene (which took up the majority of the production time), one 2D scene featuring rotoscoped hand turning around towards the camera in first person (from the view of the monster during transformation), one scene featuring the monsters face melting while it transforms, and one scene of the complete character 'Goop', doing a walk cycle.
During the module, I feel like my greatest strength was the way in which I learned new methods and techniques in the software I was using as I went, as well as the way in which I was able to add new ideas the animations with little disruption. I feel like I learned quite a lot during this module, such as how to use Keylight, without it causing me too much of a headache.
By far and away my biggest weakness during this module was simply the pace at which I modeled and animated the 3D environment for my Street/Sewer scene, which caused me to not be able to create other scenes for the animation. I do not really know why this was, but it may have been down to the project being rather ambitious for me at the time, so I thought I may have been able ton take on a bigger workload than I could.
One of the biggest opportunities to arise from this is the opportunity to use some of this work for my portfolio and show reel. Even though all of the scenes are not there, I feel as though the work I produced was of high quality for me, so I feel like it reflects the quality of work I could achieve at the time.
My main targets for after this module is to add more scenes to the overall production when possible, as I would quite like to finish it at some point, as quite a lot of effort went into it, and I am happy with the results so far
