Evaluation!

First things first, I am proud of my outcomes I had loads of fun with the FMP. Though things started off a bit hairy, with loads of ideas floating through my head, I had trouble choosing just one.
Things started off with the use of geometric shaped illustrations to create an alphabet each with a mature illustration and narrative from the typical children alphabet. It was a good plan and it had loads of potential, I still have a little regret not pulling through with the idea but I guess I can still do it in my free time. More abnormal ideas came into the thinking bucket with the creation of a Mosaic sing photography which was well out of my jurisdiction if you will...I don't know what I was thinking there, and then I wanted to create a large family tree painting that would use different materials and processes but I knew that was to fine artsy. I then went back to my geometric illustrations but I wasn't too sure on what to do with the things, so since I am going into an animation course I thought I should create an animation. I wanted to do something professional looking so I had to avoid using flash and just use the big dog 'After Effects' I think it was the best thing to use anyway because I was only going to be moving around shapes.
The animation started really slow because the process is very tedious and I just had to push through, I slapped on my headphones and zoned out. Creating the baby scene was simple since there was only a few shapes to move about, thought the other scenes took awhile because they had a bit more going on. Longest scene to create was most probably the adulthood scene since it got a bit too crowded when the three characters came on screen.
It took me awhile to get everything done and dusted but I pulled through...Last but not least...music...I need music or some sort of sound, I had loads of candidates each relatively relevant to my animation and went really smooth.
While using my old computer that held my old music play list, I found a song that had almost everything would go very well with the animation, beat, some scratch, and one hell of a catchy tune.
This was it...all my hard work coming to a close, and I seriously enjoyed everything about it, I just had a lot of fun so I must of went down the right path.
Now one last thing to talk about, all that was left to do was create a DVD case that held my hard work. I could of used an actual DVD case and stylised it a little but it didn't seem fun, I wanted to present my animation with more hard work. So I went ahead and began cutting out pieces of cardboard, I knew straight away that the design would look like a cog that has relevance to my animation.
It took me awhile because I am not that skilled in cutting shapes out with scalpels and scissors.
The outcome was really surprising...everything just went really smooth with not many hiccups.
In the end I really enjoyed working on my FMP, and choosing the subject matter that I was almost comfortable with most probably helped with that.
Last note, Using blogs I think was really successful just because it really is easy to post imagery, videos and just upload text.