Thoughts on the group and work as a whole
I have really enjoyed working on this project and it actually has turned around my perception on working in groups to a positive one! Although the start was a little slow, I think it really picked up after Christmas, especially after we properly established each of our roles. I feel we worked well together and we were able to adjust our art styles to compliment each others work. I don’t think there were many issues with communication, as we had created a group page on Facebook to post up our progress and Liam had found a website to enable us to upload raw files onto a virtual drive.
Thoughts on my role
Before Christmas, I was struggling to visualise what we were trying to create, so I took an art style Hollie had found in a book and created the initial concept designs. I didn’t actually like the style overly much, but I thought I’d explore options. However, we all liked the scratchy style it had and it was also suggested at one point, that we should perhaps do the whole thing in a Steam Punk style. Again, I wasn’t happy with the idea that we should make it all Steam Punk and thought we should may be use a few elements from the style to allow flexibility. I found images of 1930 trains and decided to evolve my train concepts around the design of that and looked at Film Noir to help them develop.
The rest of my work, I feel turned out well, but I think I need to spend more time on it overall. I’m never happy and nothing is ever good enough! But, I achieved what I set out to, especially the tone and colour of the backgrounds. I love colour and I really wanted to create something that was bright and expressive. I’m very pleased with the end result and enjoyed the challenge!
