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Midpoint Reflection

Midpoint Reflection

To reflect so far I think my designs came out quite well and I hit the majority of my goals throughout this half of the project. Using the Miro board to keep track of my progress and set new goals using a to do list was a massive help, its far simpler than a Gantt chart and allows for more flexibility - this is something I am going to continue to use for the next part of my project. 

I believe I have had a good deal of success in this portion of the project however I think that my compositions are still lacking. A lot of my personal pieces suffer from this as well, I intend to create something more cinematic when it comes to the composition of my environment pieces in 3d. I intend to do that by researching into some photography and film techniques to improve how I plan a shot and a scene. 


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I went back to my research dossier and updated the strength and weakness section with a bit more info on how I'll help my strengths to overcome certain weaknesses I have. 

For the key art ideation bit, those ideas basically came out in one - the guys at mantic gelled with the first stalker key art I showed then so I stuck with it. The Asterian key art evolved as it went on. The video was basically my ideation but I knew I wanted to stick to the pose I already had so all I did was alter the background to fit a different theme. I heard something about thumbnailing until you reach a final product and that's basically what I did.
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