Collaboration Evaluation

The majority of the collaboration brief was more than a challenge, not the brief directly, but having to try to come to some sort of agreement with Anthony on almost every design decision, since the start of the brief where we identified our key roles within the collaboration Anthony had emphasised that we had to stick to and adhere to only those roles we had assigned each other.
This became more than a hinderance on more than one occasion, for example at the start of the biref when trying to outline the brief and rationale rather than hear what I had to say and confirm on something, he would often go to ask someone else that he sees in his eyes as worthy to confer and discuss our ideas. This was incredibly irritating especially when it took us 2 weeks to come up with something solid, which left us to produce next to no work, which leads on to my next point, following on in the tradition of Anthony's common mood swings and apprehension to anything conclusive, when it came to decision making, or any sort of preparation or planning, he would refer to the role sheet at the start. 


Any of my image making had to be run by and cross-checked with Anthony before I proceeded to develop or even start creating visuals, as to ensure it fit the brief according to him, which made me lose alot of drive and interest very early on in the brief, along with his continued negativity, disinterest and snide comments made it a very tough project to finish.


In contrast, he did teach me the value and skills of being well organised to make better use of my time which will really help me for the next brief, but rather than scrutinize, overplan and procrastinate to the point where nothing gets done, I will have free reign to produce a much larger quanitity of work, and produce something that will be a decent portfolio piece.

Character Development 2

Action Plan

Crit

If I'm being completely honest, I dont think I have been to a more demoralising crit, feeling like the first year me, bricking any response to my work as Anthony persists to complain and moan about not only the 'politics' of the course tutors, but how we should just get on with it after the crit and not worry.

No feedback because we had nothing to show. At all.

Character Development

Got onto something here after we finally decided on a concept of Hovis Heroes. In my opinion, not really relative to the brief, and a bit of a recycled idea in terms of an illustrator, but one that could work just as well.

These are the characters I am most happy to start turning into finished pieces, since I have been told to be in certain places at certain times, and not allowed to work by myself unless instructed to do so by Anthony.

Character Ideas

Finally I get a chance to start drawing, after much deliberation and irritation, these are a few ideas I was bouncing around. Something quite lucrative and zany, that would entice then charm the audience into the product.

Action Plan

Action Plan

Rationale, Concepts, general refinement

It seems to not only take a while for me and Anthony to come to an agreement on something, but he has to confer with those he deems 'worthwhile' talking to. Instead of taking what I have to say into account, although he does on a superficial level, he gets distracted or uninterested. At least we are trying to get a decent rationale down. I did try to get a concept in stone, but he keeps flitting from minor things in each one, slowing down the process.

Action Plan

My first action plan, looking at initial research, focussing on the main points we took from analysing the brief.

Action Plan

Crit

Overall the main points were that we needed to decide on a direction and just roll with it. Then try to develop it as much as we could.

Initial Ideas