WEEK 6 SUMMARY

WEEK START - 29th of October

WEEK END - 4th of November

This week was focused on our casts that we designed, and translating them from pencil & paper to the digital space. We also had a lecture on Harvard Referencing (didn't get a post of it's own, but I'll sum it up here.)

MONDAY

On Monday, we made a sheet consisting of four panels relating to our cast:

• CAST LINEUP
• CHARACTER MODEL SHEET
• CHARACTER DESIGN SHEET
• CHARACTER WALK CYCLE

For more on this session, see this post.

TUESDAY

In place of a regular lecture, we were looking at how to correctly utilise Harvard Referencing for our character essay. In this session, we learnt how to properly cite and reference the following formats:

• Books
• E-Books
• Films
• Commentaries
• Reissued Films
• Webpages
• YouTube Videos
• Newspaper Articles

Aside from those, we also learnt the proper rules and regulations when it comes to quoting & paraphrasing. There was a talk on plagiarism, and how to avoid doing it, by accident or not. Punctuation, common knowledge and different source types (primary & secondary) were also brought up.

THURSDAY

This session was the start of our Photoshop conversion of the physical sketches. For Photoshop, we had to remake:

• CAST MODEL SHEET
• CHARACTER MODEL SHEET
• CHARACTER DESIGN SHEET

For the full writeup of this session, see this post.

SUMMARY

In general, I feel this week went very well! I was glad to be entering the digital art scene for my work, since that's the medium I generally feel most confident drawing in. Nothing really acted up or went wrong, but I definitely areas where I changed things as I went along, both for necessity's sake and because my mind changed on certain design choices. I would only change things that I could do with a little more time, and only if I wanted to, not because I had to. Adding shading to the design sheet, and colour to the entire turnaround would've been preferential, but ultimately it didn't need to be there. Still, I would've liked it.

The lecture on Harvard referencing was very helpful, since most of my sources for The LEGO Movie I could find weren't in books, the only source type we'd been over before. Learning how to properly cite and reference movies, YouTube videos, websites, etc, will all essential to correctly documenting my sources for my essay. The essay is really getting there, I think I have a plan set out at this point. I just need to find relevant and usable sources / evidence to back up each point and I'll be set.