Evaluation

1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

The skills i feel i have developed through this module are selecting appropriate briefs to improve my knowledge and design practice studying character design. The briefs i selected look at character across a variety of contexts such as animation idents, promotion, point of sale, illustration but also using character in different mediums such as 3D form.
One thing i wanted to improve at the beginning of this module was the execution of my final resolutions, i have improved alot more using better photography equipment and lighting to give the solution justice on a presentation board.


2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?

My main approach to design work is pen on paper, alot of sketchwork and idea generation/development. I find this my best way of expressioning an ides aswel as accidents happening which can sometimes lead to the final solution. I feel by knowing what context i was putting character into helped massivley with my development and keep me on the right track in terms of answering the briefs.


3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?

I feel my strength's through this module were generating ideas, and selecting the appropriate briefs for my design practice. I feel i have developmented my character design skills by applying character to a variety of context from print to screen. As i want to specialise in character design/illustration I will apply character to a wide variety of contexts and mediums to design fun and conceptual resolutions.


4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?

The weaknesses i have identified after this module is that i need to make design decisions quicker even if its the wrong decision i would still have enough time to correct it. I have said this each year in my evaluations but i still need to be more organised, although i a alot more than i was there's still alot of room for improvement

5.Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?

To maintain to postings on my blog and annotate them more.

To organise my work, this would enable no time wasted on backtracking, re-naming or losing files, design sheets.

I would have tested alot more stock possibilities to see other possible outcomes.

Resolve briefs quicker

Document what & who designers/designs im looking at


6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas: (please indicate
using an ‘x’) 5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor

Attendance 5
Punctuality 5
Motivation 4
Commitment 4
Quantity of work produced 4
Quality of work produced 3

Final boards

Final Anorak boards submitted for module.

Total of three boards,
1. Final magazine cover
2. Composition variations
3. Initial ideas/sketchwork

Final boards

Final Mimobot boards submitted for module.

Total of three
1.Final product
2.Other final products
3.Character development & template
4.Initial sketchs

Final boards

Final Headline boards submitted for module

Total of three boards
1.Final set of three & print
2.Development
3.Initial ideas

Final boards

Final boards submitted for module.

Total of three,
1.Point of sale
2.Ranges of product three to collect of each/ 3D form
3.Net, artwork & branding
4.Box and contents
5.Promotional masks & stickers

YCN/Monster Munch

Final Monster munch brief boards submitted for module.

Total of three boards
1. Final direct mail
2. Net of direct mail, front & back
3. Illustrated meals for 'munchie menu'

Headline Print

Point of sale

Final packaging

Thicker stock, card

After using some thinner stock i felt that using card could be a better option for the packaging as it would hold the product more securely. However using this material to print onto i have found the image becomes more dull especially when yellow is printed onto it. As one of my characters colour is prodomatley yellow i will have to change it to a more appropriate colour.
I have found when putting the net together scoring the card with a bone on the inside makes a neat score where as scoring the outside teared the card.

Promotional masks

I have designed masks 'the fernando masks' to promote the fernando brother vinyl toys. I have designed one for each of the three characters. The mask comes inside a plastic seal bag with a header on top with title and artwork. Each bag comes with a vinyl sticker and their are instructions that tell you how to cut out your fernando mask safely.