After handing in our Flash animation projects yesterday I need to shift my focus onto the remaining course units and other self initiated projects and live briefs I intend to do. I have to begin to think about the upcoming magazine project, the 5 page website for the ABC qualification, securing my placement, creating a designed CV and doing a class project to try and get a third year for vis-com.
After two successive projects in which I felt played it a bit safe in creating my final images I feel I could push my work by taking a more experimental approach involving more risk-taking and lateral thought.
Deciding to adopt a more adventurous way of working was partly influenced by a timely blog post by one of today's most successful illustrators David Foldvari who fervently rails against the process of students referencing and researching contemporary illustrator's work as it homogenises the output of the student. This struck a chord with me as I know I probably focus on other people's work too much which, inevitably cause me to voluntarily or involuntarily produce similar work. I will therefore make a point of, in future projects, increasing my breadth of research to more diverse material than just other vis com.
As I mentioned earlier in this post I have just finished my flash project. The brief dictated that we had to communicate a statistic. I chose to create an animation based on the story of Roy Sullivan, a park ranger in America who was struck by lightning seven times and the odds of this happening. Although I don't think the final piece was the best example of my work I think the emphasis in this project was more on learning new skills on a new piece of software and creating something which met the brief and feel that I have done this and can now build upon what I have learnt. I will embed the animation on this page as soon as I find out how!
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