Progress Presentation 1

We had the first set of progress presentations for the Honours Project. The idea was to show our peers and lecturers what we have planned for our projects and how we have started going about achieving our goals.

I spoke about my initial ideas for the project, how it had been a number of separate ideas that were all part of a whole so they were all put into one.

Until yesterday I was thinking about this project the wrong way. I was planning an art project that I wanted to do and trying to find a way to justify it for the academic side. Comparing the way comics and graphic novels are produced pre digital art vs post digital art was starting to emerge as a way to take research. 

The focus of the project should be taking a series bible through to a completed set of sequential pages and covers, the technology is just a set of tools that I can use along the way. 

Another thing that was suggested was a slight modification to the character design challenge. When designing the characters I will start considering the situations the characters might get into. When it comes to the painting every 4th week, rather than being just a character design standing there I will start to try painting them within short one page strips every second week. 

Overall the feedback was really helpful with moving the not only moving the project forward but also finally defining the goals of the project.

This week I will finish my general research and get cracking on to the practical arty goodness.