ESting Evaluation

This is my Esting, titled: A Wizard's Tale.

During the creation of my ESting I didn't really come across many constraints. My lighting was consistent and my characters was pretty good too. The only thing I had trouble with was making my character stay up consistently - You can notice in some shots, he has his legs slightly bent, this is due to his balance being way off. To fix this in future projects, I will create a skeleton type deal with wire and use that to model my character around. Another Constraint I had was sticking to the Ofcom Broadcasting Code - To comply with this code I wasn't allowed to have any product placement in my production. I also had to comply with the E4 ESting Brief which is written below.

Ethical: I had to ensure that I didn't offend anyone either intentionally or non intentionally. The also links to the regulatory guidelines from OFCOM.

Legal: I was also careful not to plagiarise content or break any copyright laws. For example, the wizard character that I had chosen could easily be mistaken for one from a film or tv show, so I made him my own. Also the music that I used was provided by E4 so I didn't have to worry about audio problems.

As far as other constraints go, I had to make sure that my lighting and set was consistent. To do this, I marked all the props and used the lights available to me in the room.

Managing my time was fairly simple - We were given 8 lessons for each step (planning, modelling, and creating) Although I overstepped the mark a little, I was still able to plan, create and film every chance I got. So I'd say that my time was managed well.

Looking at the rules for the ESting competition, I have stuck to the rules completely! There's nothing explicit, it's 10 seconds long and there's an E4 logo that has been integrated into my idea at the end. There are a good amount of cases out there where people did not comply to the brief due to disagreements within the group. For example.

The feedback that I received from my peers was fairly good - There was mention of smooth animation, good focus on the set and a nice original idea. Some negatives included; The zoom at the end was a little jumpy and the character could use some more detail. I'm happy with the feedback so far and I will certainly act on these points in the future.

Of course with all online surveys, due to the anonymity the answers aren't all serious but I did manage to get some pretty good feedback. I learnt that the animation was okay and people seemed to like it and it was aesthetically pleasing. 

During this project I have learnt many things about myself and the work I enjoy doing. I have found that animation is a long and tedious process and I really don't enjoy it BUT, I do however enjoy the finished product and gained some satisfaction from finally finishing and seeing my models come to life. Working to a brief was fun as the brief was very lax in terms of rules and allowed for a lot of creativity, which I thought to be good.

I do think that I would be a good person to work in the industry and work to a brief as long as the brief allows for creativity and freedom. I like to be given a task and put a funky twist on it, and I think that it would be fun.

Ah, Animation - No I don't think I'd like to take it any further unless I was given another brief like this one. I didn't really enjoy all the fiddly movement and keeping everything perfect aspect of things and I'll think that animation isn't something I'd see myself doing in the future.