Kiwianna Reflection

So, I have completed my personal project - Kiwianna and I decided it was a good time to reflect on my project, how I got on with it and what I could have done differently or better. Although my project is now complete, I do feel that some things could have been done better.

Some of the shots that I had, probably could have been more interesting, for example I could have had full body shots of the characters running through the gate or walking into the gate at the old man's house or I could have had some better environments and backgrounds. The short amount of time that I gave myself to work on my project restricted what I could do with it. Also because of the time I restricted myself to, I never put the sound in my project until all of the animation was done which was a bad move because it made the sound difficult to place. There is a reason that animators animate to the sound!

The large amount of characters was a little bit huge in general because that was eight seperate characters to create, rig and animate which is time consuming. I would not get rid of any of them though because each character brings something unique and familiar into the mix. I may choose to change the colour pallet of the backgrounds a little bit to more pastel sort of colours to make the characters stand out more against the backgrounds.

If I could have done things differently I would have given myself heaps more time to do the animation and I would have definitely put the sound in first. I don't think that I would have changed much else about my animation and I did really enjoy creating this project so I guess the next question is..... what is the future of Kiwianna????

I am hoping to work on it a little bit further and put a proposal together for funding. I would like to turn this into an actual web series because I think it's important for New Zealand children to have something that is from their own country and that they can relate to, instead of all the crap that they are watching on television and online. I am interested to see what I can do with Kiwianna and what the future holds for it!