Right now I have a clear understanding of what I'm capable at. Main areas are illustration and character design. I can sketch super quick, I'm great at line control and when it comes to my art it can be presented as clean and fluid. I have access to many areas of art like traditional and digital, when summed up. These can help with experimentation throughout the project. I also have a lot of documentaries and videos scattered around the internet, having the internet can help me find sources that I can use and analyze. 

I never managed to make my own audio, this can be any type of sound, not just music. I also have a problem with not showing my progress more than I should, not showing different variations of my character design. I barely explained some changes within design choices too. Sometimes I don't properly analyse certain parts in detail too. 

I can experiment with learning audio, especially imputing the audio if choosing an animation based project. We have audio recorders or my own personal device's microphone. I have access to many materials from online and craft shops incase my project is making based. I have already from work experience, started to layout character design to show progress, meaning I'll start doing that more and to not be afraid of mistakes. Also acknowledging my weaknesses, I will start to take screenshots/use obs or timelapse each stage of work. Showing a lot of my work more often, an aim of 6-8 visual developments, especially not leaving out even the smallest thing that will contribute with my project

The bus can sometimes be late or extremely early, this can stop me from getting to college. If my project is made in computer programs, It can be hard for me to access it at home. I also get sick sometimes stopping me from progressing.

Poppy Playtime’s short cartoon animation introduces the new characters for the game, this is to build an environment for the game, making the plot feel like it’s a real life situation. It starts with new characters intro, showing each character and then 

Poppy Playtime’s cartoon is a short film, my main inspiration for this project. I like that they introduce the game with a horror filled short episode of the game, of course this makes more sense with the theme of it being an old toy company that has ultimately failed with safety precautions. 

I liked the general aesthetic of the game, it has a colourful youthful palette and the whole layout really gives off that old VHS type feeling. It is like a VHS tape for the kids in the universe that love these mascots, this is the explanation for the designs as well. Being a toy company they want smiley creatures that represent the childhood of people, children when they just enter the world with youth and with the creatures having certain identities that children would connect with.

Although, I won't go down this category of horror. It's the close up scenes of eeriness and the youthfulness of it that I appreciate. In a certain scene, Catnap the purple cat near the end, has close up of the mysterious gas. This is just a great scene as it is rendered differently since the art style is now more realistic, this is to show how these toys were real in this universe. This is great way of breaking the 4th wall of the show and also developing the real situations that happened in the game.

I really enjoyed the scenes of EDNÖRA, the character being in clear focus due to the light that's shinning mostly on the character instead of the whole background. Lighting is such an important tool in story-telling as it's a great use for symbolism or a way to create a focus point. Light can also change the mood of a story which is definitely what I want to do. 

The backgrounds in general are breath taking, depending on my exact storyline and environment that my project's going towards I will take EDNÖRA'S beautiful open areas as references. 

The storyline itself is supported by all of these things. It’s a simple scenario but it has a lot of personality in it despite being extremely short. The whole animation is easy to follow and has a lot of character, this is due to the scenario being very relatable for a lot of people and the situation is such an annoying experience with people. Having a scenario that is relatable makes the characters and whole animation more enjoyable, this is a technique that’s been used in storytelling for films, TV and other media. It helps make the character or even the story just much more relatable, this can be in a very serious setting to almost a comedy setting. 

I like how specifically the 4th episode of this series, they start to experiment more with animation. This gives so much life to the characters and makes them seem actually real rather than the very quick frames of characters and illustrations. 

The audio design in this series is great, giving another VHS tape-like approach with distortion of people and children's voices. Also the music sometimes just has such an old feeling as the first part presents this great with real life footage as well. 

Skipping through some of it, it shows a lot of heavy story telling through scary images to well animated scenes that show the strong horror aspects of the episode. One of the best scenes being one of the main characters called .. crawling out from 3 graves he made just after his tragic car accident with his coworker's children inside. I personally love this part as there's just a quick cut to it and him looking at the bag that is covered in blood, showing the loss of innocence and youth being completely destroyed by reckless behaviiour. It's such an eerie and overwhelming part in the film that It really inspires me to create moments like that.

Last thing, near the end is a supernatural being that communicates with the deceased. This is due to the lore having setienent robots that can communicat ewith the spirits, even without the lore involved, the clear thought put  into creating this scary and unknowing atmosphere is impressive. With the creature moving slow but just human enough to freak the audience out.

When I played DeadPlate I had started with the tutorial, apparently the full game would take me at least 1 hour to complete so I tried to play as much as I could.

Here in the video of the gameplay, I play game one and It's a very simple progression for a game. You have around 7 days to do this over and over again yet it gets faster and harder for each day. 

Although the game is great in it's mechanical features, the story is what hooks people in.

The story revolves around the main protagonist called 'Rody' who has a lack of survival skills, his apartment is all trashed and it shows how he doesn't have time to care for himself. The whole time he's in love with a girl, he's too naive to understand she doesn't reciprocate any feelings back at the moment.

Vince, who owns the fancy bristo, has high excpetations when it comes to his restrauant. Though, his relationship with Rody is very tense and there sometimes very close moments.

Rody gets suspicious of Vince after some time due to Vince's strange behavior, and this leads to a nightmare Rody has. Vince's behavior keeps getting weirder, he takes care of Rody yet his old newspapers that all involve Vince's restaurant all say that Vince doesn't have any kind of respect for his workers.

Rody ignores everything and then decides to talk to Vince after finishing his work, he talks to Vince about his goal about being with a girl called Manon, but Vince can see how Rody is trying way too hard. Going back home, he has another nightmare about him being served as raw packaged meat.

When going back to work, he finishes it yet hears strange sounds from the freezer. He gets distracted and finds more information about Vince. 

There are multiple endings but the most popular known ending is Vince inviting Rody to work more even after him getting his money. Rody also gets a call from Vince asking him to come to his party. When Rody arrives he talks to some guests and also goes into Vince's room to find the freezer key.

This leads to the final part where he visits the freezer to find out that Vince has actually kept his lover Manon as freezer meat and her locket was found. Vince walks in and knocks out Rody and when he wakes up, he's tied. Vince gives him time to escape so Rody uses matches to quickly burn off the Rope. This leads to them fighting eachother, Vince finally rips Rody's ear off. Vince starts explaining his intentions which then Rody starts attacking him and burns down the building. 

I was trying out doing my own animation, I did not use a tutorial and I wanted to do this by myself with my own experience. My own experience has just been me animating ever since I was young, so I do have experience but I haven't been animating for a while, so this is the perfect opportunity to start practicing again. Even if It's a simple tutorial, this will help me understand the fundamentals of animation in a bit more detail.

This animation is a small animation showing progress of a man doing a small action, this is to practice drawing humans and animating them since I will do minimal animation due to time I have, this is a great time to experiment here. 

This is me using the tutorial to show I can use Procreate Dreams, a simple tutorial can also help me get used to the UI in procreate dreams. 

I do each stage to show my process. For this example, I create frames to indicate where this ball will bounce. The animation is super choppy, you'd see this in a storyboard. (I started with 12 Fps)

Here we add "in-betweens" this makes the animation way more smoother, by adding frames between the primary frames from before. 

We add more in-betweens and it's more smooth, although that's a great thing, when it comes to objects thinking about the phsics of it, you wouldn't expect it to be a smooth ball that has no bounce to it.

This was a mistake since I accidentally put the wrong frame of the squish effect after the impact of the ball. This created the bounce/squish effect but made it look very unnatural when it hit the imaginary floor.

I fixed that easily, I made sure that the ball was now immediately going to squish due to force of impact and I also added small movements of when it goes up, making it look like it stretches when going up. 

In the end it looks like the tutorial and now I have an example of an animation on Procreate Dreams.

Here I did this by recording myself in Bandlab and I made a boing sound effect. I did this by saying bing and making the pitch higher. I thought It'd be easier to just edit this in kinemaster again as kinemaster has a layout that's super easy to use when editing for quick things. 

In conclusion I think both are great but premade sounds would help me benefically, to get the audio part done. These audios are easy to find on YouTube and they aren't bad if used correctly. 

I liked the one I made myself but it would just take more time especially for longer audio clips.

At least a Storyboard with some movement, this whole project must have the animation part in it. I also think that there should be audio, sound effects. 

A fully coloured animation, this includes characters and other objects. Also coloured backgrounds. 

Perhaps small concept art for what the game might look like, for example the introduction screen after the animation. 

An actual game, there will be no game for this project as we are focusing more on the theme and genre. So I do not need to make a game for this.