One
thing I've taken away from this portfolio visit which I think I'll start
doing...or shall I say start not doing,
is showing my show-reel. I felt it was such a waist of my time and their time.
The whole point of a portfolio visit is to get critical feedback on your work
and the show-reel is only fragments of your work, also you send your show-reel
off to a studio if your looking for a job and I wasn't asking for a job. I
suppose it’s a nice introduction, but i felt it was an awkward one.
The character animation went down well and so did the ident brief which seemed to trigger the conversation of style, which John started to talk about how sometimes not having a style is better as it shows you can adapt to all different mediums. He also pointed out that still having a style doesn't mean you can't do other things, its finding the balance of doing stuff which your recognized for and trying out new ways of working.
The only bit of criticism I got was towards the train animation for the self-initiated project. John pointed out that some of the shakes on the train were a little harsh on the close ups. Its something which I thinks been pointed out before, and when i get a spare minuet I'll be correcting it.
Apart from that, they really liked the style of the animation and mentioned that the colour palette was very strong.
They seemed to like mine and Jacks side project 'seasons' in which they gave some suggestions towards bringing in some close ups to get across some of the subtle facial expressions. We'll take it on board and see what happens.
So in conclusion, I've got some amending to do to the train and I've managed to identify what went well, what didn't and learn from that for the next one.
The character animation went down well and so did the ident brief which seemed to trigger the conversation of style, which John started to talk about how sometimes not having a style is better as it shows you can adapt to all different mediums. He also pointed out that still having a style doesn't mean you can't do other things, its finding the balance of doing stuff which your recognized for and trying out new ways of working.
The only bit of criticism I got was towards the train animation for the self-initiated project. John pointed out that some of the shakes on the train were a little harsh on the close ups. Its something which I thinks been pointed out before, and when i get a spare minuet I'll be correcting it.
Apart from that, they really liked the style of the animation and mentioned that the colour palette was very strong.
They seemed to like mine and Jacks side project 'seasons' in which they gave some suggestions towards bringing in some close ups to get across some of the subtle facial expressions. We'll take it on board and see what happens.
So in conclusion, I've got some amending to do to the train and I've managed to identify what went well, what didn't and learn from that for the next one.
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