HA14 Task 10 - Evaluation

Evaluation

During creating the puppet for unit 67 3D animation I feel that I was able to follow instructions and work well  towards making a good final outcome. I feel my progress had both strengths and weaknesses:

Strengths
I found it easy to construct the puppet in Modeler and think this worked well.
During the construction of the build in Modeler I found it easy to duplicate pieces of the robot using the correct keyboard shortcuts and knowing how many degrees I needed to move each piece to make them all symmetrical.
I found the rigging straightforward although I did encounter a few issues along the way and needed a little bit of help from my tutor.
I found it quite straightforward when putting the animation together and felt that the video ran smoothly once it had all been processed.

Weaknesses
I struggled when it came to animating the puppet. I found it difficult to get my head round what I needed to do in each key frame in order to achieve the correct movement cycle.
When creating the storyboards for each of the different movement cycles I found it difficult to match up the number of seconds to the key frames as it included lots of decimal numbers.
The only thing I found difficult is when I was doing the video I realised that the running movement cycle wasn't flowing as well as I wanted it to in Adobe Premier Pro, so I had to go back into Layout and change the cycle to make it look better.

Overall I feel that my puppet build, rig and animation worked well. I am pleased with the end product from my rendered videos. I feel that my finished product has achieved the aim of the project.