end of year evaluation

I have learnt alot over the year and throughout my major project. While producing my project I have come across a number of new and different techniques that I have applyed to my work. I have also discoverd a lot of artists who has inspired me and motivated me through out the project.
My project for this year was to create and design a concept that could be used for either an animated series, or for a feature film, my idea was to create a futuristic zoo called zooalia that was home to alien creatures that people would come to visit. When I first started the project, I found it difficult to start because the project that I chose was such a big topic that I wasnt sure where to start. The refrence and research however was amazing and thats what realy kicked me into gear and what motivated me to start the project.
As the project progressed I felt more confident in my work and shortly after the pre production hand in, thats when I started to finalyse all the characters for the project and all the backgrounds. The most difficult part I found was to time manage everything I had to do, There where so many boxes that I had to tick that it was difficult keeping track of all my work and what I had done. I kept track of my work though by using a scheduel that I wuld check everyday to make sure I was working on what I should be.
I feel that the project this year was the best work that I have produced so far, and I also believe that my time planning was the best it has been, even though the major project was alot to manage.

alien aquarium concept

alien creature concept fish

alien creature concept fish

alien creature concept

alien creature concept

alien creature concept

alien creature concept

alien creature concept

alien creature concept

alien creature concept

alien creature concept

alien zoo visitor baby

alien zoo visitor

alien zoo keeper

alien fairy concept

colour keys 2

colour keys 2

colour keys 1

baby concept sketch

alien turnaround

alien zoo signs

robot concepts

gun pose thumbnails

robot mop concept

food bomb concept

interior of the space jeep

journal entry week 2

Monday

I finished the concept for the food bomb idea, started to storyboard a short sequance to show how the food bomb works to feed the creatures.

Tuesday

I finished the storyboard sequance,have now started designing robot props that works in the zoo, like robots that clean the floor.- finished robot concepts ahead of scheduel!!!! whoo hoo

wednesday

snow day- uni was shut, so worked on signs for the zoo at home using photoshop

Thursday

still snowed in, but finished the signs for the zoo and started to finish bgs for nathan in flash for his project.

Friday

Back in uni and finished off nathans bgs so far just one more to go

flash background gun shop

flash background inside a car

flash background sergery room

journal entry week 1

monday

I focused on prop design and i researched into weapon design for the zoo characters, i have looked at water pistols as reference, and i researched game websites for weapons and bombs.

tuesday

I focused on producing initial sketches for gun ideas based on water pistols, all pencil sketches i then coloured them rough in phto shop after scanning in the images.
I also sketched up 2 final guns, ready to photoshop.

wednesday

I focused on producing the final photoshop image of one of the guns, i used the opacitie tools on ps, to get a different style in my work-first experiment with colour dodge.

thursday

i have finished producing the image on ps for the final gun, would have started second image but left in uni and it was snowing bad and couldnt get in.

friday

stilkl couldnt get into uni so i re drew the second gun and finished the gun in 3 hours on ps, i also managed to finish the bomb concepts

koi fish painting on canvas

tiger pianting on canvas

creature concept

gun concept

alien creature concept