1. EvaluationThe project is about using our skills in
illustrator and photoshop toproduce a bitmap and vector character
with additional details suchas mood boards and research.I created
Dr Nicolas phobetor an elder genius with a powerfulknowledge of
technology and the ability to take over the world.Phobetor doesnt
have any special powers like shooting fireballsand what not he has
more of a intellectual kind of advantage.Phobetor is a former pilot
that started his evil schemes when hewas shot out of the sky by the
enemy planes in the war.Phobetornow only has one hand but has used
his knowledge to create afully functional robot harm with some
special abilits.I researched on the internet mainly on websites
that explain thegenre of steampunk and what steampunk is I then put
my researchtogether and created some sketches with some of the many
imagesthat caught my attention.My strengths within the project were
more on the information sideof things it wasnt until really further
into the project that I becamemore focused on what it was I had to
do.The part of the project I struggled with the most was
thephotoshop character creation because I wasnt very sure on
whattools I needed to use and how to use them but that became
clearafterwards.Although I had allot of problems the part I enjoyed
the most wasthe vector character creation.
2. The final character was exactly what I was expecting an ex
pilotwith an artificial hand and the knowledge to do as he
pleases.If I was to do this project again I would try to use more
of my owntime to get the work done and stay focused during all the
tasksgiven.The things I need to improve on in my use of some of the
tools inphotoshop and further practice on illustrator.For the
project I used adobe photoshop cs5.5 which creates bitmapimages and
was the best program for the bitmap character creationbecause of
the use of tools. The other tools I used were adobeillustrator
which I used for the vector character creation the part ofthe
project I enjoyed the most.Other tools I used for information and
data collection wasMicrosoft word and power point.During the
project I come across many problem all which haddifficult solutions
an example is when creating my characteroriginally I didnt use
shapes I just used lines which looked goodat the time became a
disaster when I attempted to colour. I fixedthis my redesigning my
character in the exact same way but with afaster approach and this
worked for me very well.One problem Icouldnt solve was the outline
of my photoshop character becauseI simultaneously dragged it back
and forth from illustrator tophotoshop.At the beginning of the
course nothing was clear to me having notused the software in a
while but whilst I become more accustomedto the programs I learnt
more and more. This has gave me allotmore confidence and skill
using both the photoshop and illustratorsoftware.
3. The thing that went to my advantage the most was that I
didnthave any problem with the theory side of things and I enjoyed
thecharacter creation because it gave me better knowledge of
thesoftware. The thing that didnt go to my advantage was
timekeeping I dint do very well at this and this is one of the
things Iwould improve if I had a second attempt.
