Hand Drawn GIF
Successes:
• The texture from the acrylic paint really gives it a charm and nostalgic feeling for characters like Mr. Men and Little Miss back in the '70s.
• The flow of the 14 frames to create a loop
• Correct dimensions
• Simple colours and forms to tell the story
• Persevering with the light box!
What could be improved:
• Optimisation. Trying to downsize the GIF any further created an unsightly grainy effect and colour banding that I didn't want, so I tried to retain as much of the quality as possible with a reduced file size - which was a huge struggle!
• Adding a background to give coherency to the whole GIF series, but the prospect of drawing the background 14 times was not a pleasant thought!
Digital GIF
Successes:
• Smooth transition through frames in the loop giving an effortless sense of movement.
• Weathered background with gouache and dusty textures.
• Strong, vibrant colours.
• The focus being on Mr. Squidge with a nice balance of the background being subtle. I made the right decision to set the leaves to overlay rather than them battling it out for the spotlight.
What could be improved:
• Optimisation. This GIF fared better than the others as it was created digitally, rather than having photographs taken and uploaded or drawings scanned in, but it is still something that needs to be worked on.
Three Dimensional GIF
Successes:
• This is by far my favourite of the three GIFs I made and had a lot to do with the crafting and creating of it! It was a lot of fun to make!
• Using recycled clay and painting with acrylic paints has worked really well to translate the illustration from paper to a tangible form. It has a lot to do with using the same acrylic paints and colours to describe my character's appearance in a simplistic way.
• The stop-motion effect, not having a smooth transition gives it a 'clunky' quirkiness.
What could be improved:
• I would like to have experimented with building the set differently and manipulating the lighting so the true colours of the paper background showed through - but couldn't due to time constraints.
• Again, optimisation is something that I had to wrestle with a lot in order to keep as much image quality as possible.
Going back to my original post where I was extremely apprehensive towards creating a set of GIFs - I did it! It was hard work but I did it. I created a character that I genuinely love and people responded well to and found my hand-drawn and three dimensional more effective than the digital version - which was the easiest and most convenient to do. None of them are perfect and improvements could most certainly be made in terms of file size and making them flow better, but I think they all work very well as a group and I am very proud of the work I have achieved in just 2 weeks. Being able to experiment and explore independently was a huge part of my success and something I will be aiming for in the next 2 briefs. I always enjoy a playful approach to work using simple colours and shapes.
Successes:
• The texture from the acrylic paint really gives it a charm and nostalgic feeling for characters like Mr. Men and Little Miss back in the '70s.
• The flow of the 14 frames to create a loop
• Correct dimensions
• Simple colours and forms to tell the story
• Persevering with the light box!
What could be improved:
• Optimisation. Trying to downsize the GIF any further created an unsightly grainy effect and colour banding that I didn't want, so I tried to retain as much of the quality as possible with a reduced file size - which was a huge struggle!
• Adding a background to give coherency to the whole GIF series, but the prospect of drawing the background 14 times was not a pleasant thought!
Successes:
• Smooth transition through frames in the loop giving an effortless sense of movement.
• Weathered background with gouache and dusty textures.
• Strong, vibrant colours.
• The focus being on Mr. Squidge with a nice balance of the background being subtle. I made the right decision to set the leaves to overlay rather than them battling it out for the spotlight.
What could be improved:
• Optimisation. This GIF fared better than the others as it was created digitally, rather than having photographs taken and uploaded or drawings scanned in, but it is still something that needs to be worked on.
Successes:
• This is by far my favourite of the three GIFs I made and had a lot to do with the crafting and creating of it! It was a lot of fun to make!
• Using recycled clay and painting with acrylic paints has worked really well to translate the illustration from paper to a tangible form. It has a lot to do with using the same acrylic paints and colours to describe my character's appearance in a simplistic way.
• The stop-motion effect, not having a smooth transition gives it a 'clunky' quirkiness.
What could be improved:
• I would like to have experimented with building the set differently and manipulating the lighting so the true colours of the paper background showed through - but couldn't due to time constraints.
• Again, optimisation is something that I had to wrestle with a lot in order to keep as much image quality as possible.
Going back to my original post where I was extremely apprehensive towards creating a set of GIFs - I did it! It was hard work but I did it. I created a character that I genuinely love and people responded well to and found my hand-drawn and three dimensional more effective than the digital version - which was the easiest and most convenient to do. None of them are perfect and improvements could most certainly be made in terms of file size and making them flow better, but I think they all work very well as a group and I am very proud of the work I have achieved in just 2 weeks. Being able to experiment and explore independently was a huge part of my success and something I will be aiming for in the next 2 briefs. I always enjoy a playful approach to work using simple colours and shapes.
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