Conclusion

I am happy with my animation as a whole and feel that it portrays well the idea of everyone having their own demons and the battles they face with them. Even though I feel that it's hard to guess what sin Sams demon is, this is because his demon is newly formed and is just starting to gain control of him which I hope the viewer will understand. I am proud of the character models I have made because I feel that they have a unique style to them.

My favourite scene that I filmed was the smoking scene as it allowed me to combine puppet animation with claymation. This was a method I hadn't used before and I was excited to try it out and see the results. I think it worked well although I would have liked to do more with the sloth demon but with how the puppet was placed around it I couldn't move the demon around too much. Because it was the sloth sin it was representing I didn't want it to be moving around too much or too fast. I really liked how the lightning effect in the final scene worked out as it looks really realistic and gives the viewer a sort of jump scare when Sam is also being scared.

I'm not happy with how the walk cycle turned out as while animating Sams legs had become too loose to pose more realistically, because of this I had to spend a lot of time balancing him to get his feet in the right position or as close as possible. I also wish I had more time to mask out the rig as I think it's quite noticeable that it has been masked out. I am also annoyed at myself for forgetting to take empty pictures of the earlier scenes where the rig is shown because this meant that I wasn't able to even attempt masking the rig out of these scenes, before entering the film into festivals I would like to re-shoot these scenes. I was originally going to have 2D printed backdrops and printed on the walls to the buildings but I had to change this idea. From my research into 'Tom Moody' I found that using black backgrounds would make the scene look like its in a world of its own.

The first thing I will change in my film before entering it into festivals is the sound as it is too quiet when not being viewed through with headphones. This will be easy to change as it is simply a case of turning up the volume before re-rendering but I didn't have time to do this before the submission. I also want to change the black scene when Sam gets knocked out as the colour is slightly off for the solid black layer I put in-between the clips. Again this will be an easy fix as it is just a case of colour matching them up or by simply removing the solid layer. I would also like to spend some more time working on post production effects but I feel I need more practice using After Effects before I can do this to a good standard.

I have really enjoyed this module as I have had a lot of creative freedom to create my own unique  narrative on something that has been reproduced a lot with usually the same ideas.This module has taught me a lot about independently creating a film and I am proud of the amount of work I have produced for this throughout the semester.