Over the course of this project I created my own website using Wix. My aims with this was to have a secure and singular place where both my portfolio and showreel were featured, to ease any potential employers or viewers so that everything is in one place and easily navigatable. I wanted to choose colours which reflected my personality as well as the overall design aesthetic I generally have: vibrant, dynamic and exciting! I went with neon pinks and blues as i particularly like the retro neon aesthetic and this is also reflected in my CV.
For my CV i wanted to design esentially a ‘one page’ resume, I wanted to design a page where it would flow to the viewers eye as well as be visually pleasing without taking over the main function of a CV. I particularly like retro vintage aesthetics so I gathered colour palettes and images which would help convey that on my CV:
I chose colours which wouldnt be eye straining to look at but would also still be similar to the style I wanted to go for.
To Develop my online presence I started a youtube channel to upload works in progress’, short animations and finished works. Doing this I hope to develop my online presence professionally outside of my own personal Instagram. To further develop the reach i have with my videos i aim to schedule when I upload and what, so that the content I put out gets seen more and so I can build on my skills in the meantime such as when feedback is given.
My current skill set is a mixture of cartoon and eastern animation, I’m particularly inspired by creating stories and believable characters for myself and sharing this with others. My style is heavily influenced by anime as well as video games shown mostly in the way I portray each character to the viewer.
Where I know my strengths are in the variety of character/environments I design, I pay close attention to shape and colour as I want to showcase different types of people and places as no two are the same. I also find my strengths include my planning and composition skills, I focus on making sure poses or structures don’t feel stiff or unnatural to the viewer.
Moving forward over this project as well as university I would like to develop other areas of work to further strengthen what I can do. One example of this is my development in environmental art and character designs of different styles, so far I have experimented with my usually graphic style aswell as a lineless style but moving forward I would like to try other styles to expand on what I can do such as highly dense and sketchy art styles as i’m usually a perfectionist so it would be outside of my range. As well as this i want to further expand my character animation skills specifically in toon boom so that I get more comfortable animating 2D digitally, as well as traditionally.
After creating a moodboard of different types of artists and their work i wanted to examine what it is I particularly enjoy about them to further improve my own skills over the course of this project.
one point which stands out to me is each artists use of colour to enthrall the audience, whether its to put focus on a character and their themes or to entice the viewer into looking at the piece longer. To reach this I will pay closer attention to my choice of colors when I work, focusing on depth and how that can be better portrayed with lighting and colour. Another is the sense of narrative with all of these pieces, both in background and character design an artist should be able to create a believable design to where the audience gets completely taken back by the world they get introduced to, especially in worlds with supernatural or fantasy elements which are harder to visualise with realistic elements. To achieve this in my work I will focus on the smaller details, elements which add a layer of personality to the ‘world’ being introduced or character we get to see, this will help to develop my narrative style in drawing as well as my animation work.