So I’ve had a lovely week off (a reward to myself for finishing Semester 1) and I’m so excited to start working on my Commercial Realisation project this term! ♥
We had a lecture about clarifying out intentions for this Semester, and we also discussed how our Portfolio projects are going to pan out- since our hand-in is mid-May but we need to spend a lot of time building our portfolios and exhibit materials, I really need to re-evaluate what I’ll be working on in order to produce the best products for final show. We’ve been told to finish most of our ‘formal’ degree work (with the accompanying vis dev and research) by mid-March, so this gives me a little over a month and a half to complete the Cheltenham Illustration Awards brief (which is revealed at the beginning of March), and the tentative Animation project (which was originally scheduled to be completed over a whopping 14 weeks)! These would be my two Commercial Projects, with the recurring Portfolio project being my Personal Project.
I’m certain that I still want to continue with the Cheltenham Illustration Awards, as the reasoning behind wanting to do that was to have a nice centrepiece for my end of year exhibit- I’d originally scheduled this project to be 5 weeks long, so this seems doable in the new timeframe.
The animation project (as a submission to the Adobe Awards) may have to sadly take a backseat as it’s most likely going to be too complex to complete to the best of my ability in the month that is available :c I fully intend to bring the existing work to fruition eventually- this might be a passion project of mine that I’ll take on in the summer after graduation… watch this space!
As an alternative, I want to further explore the riso and do some prints to submit to another competition- so far I’m thinking of basing them on the theme of the ‘Sun, Moon and Stars’ (this is extremely typical of me, haha)
I’m sad that I probably won’t be able to make my animation right now, but I really enjoyed working with the riso previously in Semester 1 and now that I have a lot more knowledge on the process and there are three new colours available, I’ll be able to make something really fancy~
My targets for next week include writing out a synopsis and briefs for my first project (Commercial Project 2), as well as starting initial concepts which I’ll work on while I wait for the CIA theme to be released.
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