Sleepy Project: Self Assessment

Self Assessment

For this project I have:

• Helped with filming on a live action shoot
• Auditioned voice actors
• Helped with recording voice actors
• Conducted appropriate research to help me with drawing Shwizzle
• Drawn a character in Photoshop to be rigged in CelAction
• Animated 5 shots of the episode
• Drawn additional parts for the special effects
• Done some video editing
• Added SFX

With hindsight I would have liked to have done test animations with all of the characters. This way I would have gotten used to the rigs faster and could have pointed out the flaws in the rigs that later caused some problems. I also should have checked with the others how they were drawing mouth shapes as I think the way I have shaded the mouth shapes on Shwizzle looks a little out of place compared to the other characters. If I had more time I would have liked to help more with drawing backgrounds and additional props as I enjoy background work and liked having a go at drawing the smoke for shot 32.

Before this project I had barely worked in Photoshop or CelAction before. I know think my knowledge of Photoshop has greatly improved, along with my digital painting skills in this program. I feel that I picked up how to use CelAction fairly quickly and now understand the program and it's rigging system much more and would definitely want to work with it again. I think some of my animation could have been more on point but this was the first time I had animated to someone else's style before so I had to adapt to that way of working.