2024 Final Major Project - Research

JP is an aspiring animator currently studying Creative Digital Media.

Creating Three Potential Outcomes

110 - Rough Idea Formulation

The first thing I did for the project was attempt to create three ideas or outcomes. I made a set of limitations and goals that these ideas would need to abide by as well as a short to-do list of the tasks I must complete once these three simple ideas are made. I also came up with a theme, simply something that I felt both could connect these three simple ideas and also be interesting as a research topic.

Once I had made my three basic ideas I moved onto expanding them into more well researched and written out intention documents.

These documents are split into several sections based on a mixture between what the brief requires and what I find would be useful for developing ideas.

111 - Idea 1 - Video Game Character Moveset

112 - Idea 2 - Dinosaur Chase

113 - Idea 3 - Kaiju Fight

Intended Outcome

After creating these three ideas I decided to go through with the second one as its mix of both human and animal animation appealed to me most. Now with a decided outcome I went through with the rest of the early preliminary development process, creating a proposal and mood boards to further explore what this idea could mean.

130 - Intended Project Proposal

180 - Developed SWOTs

190 - Developed Mood boards

Preliminary Research

With a base idea created I went to focus on research, splitting it across several documents for easier organisation and using many sources both online and offline.

120 - Theme Research

140 - Audience Research

150 - Inspiration Research

170 - Genre Research