evaluation

I wanted to use this module to put the skills I had developed during my placements to good use, therefore there has been a mainly 3-D focus to the projects I set my self, and these projects are focused on toys design.
This work allowed me to improve my crafting, drawing and illustrator software skills, I attended the refresher and advance classes for illustrator and I feel that my skills with the software has increased considerably since these classes. The briefs were focused on producing 3-D models, character, pop-up and involved me setting up the hippoblogomus.
The module has allowed me to potentially discover my niche in crafting and a newfound confidence in this field. Although I feel that I made the briefs a bit too difficult to achieve considering the time I had so when I fell behind there simply wasn’t enough hours in the day to catch back up. I also discovered that I require the studio to work therefore I stayed in the studio until it shut on most weekdays throughout the module. I would liked to have kept a better record of my development of my constructs but with me being fairly new to pop-up crafting and 3-D design I made so many mistakes it felt a bit better not to remind my self what I couldn’t do yet and to focus on what I had achieved each day of the development of these projects. I feel that the work I submitted was fairly disorganised and may not be good enough.
My greatest improvement this module has been my crafting skills I have learnt to create 3-D models and pop-ups, the 3-D models brief was based on the recent experience I had on placement at Tigerprint were I had worked on something similar so it was still fresh in my mind and seemed quite straight forward throughout the development of the project. Pop-up design on the other hand is something I found much more challenging as I had very little experience with it and it was very difficult to find an appropriate guide book therefore I pretty much taught myself what will work and won’t work this was enlightening but stressful and time consuming, the pop ups I produced are pretty simple and all follow the same ‘rules’ (two walls with stuff coming off and a centrepiece).
As this project was largely based on my experience in the toy department of Tigerprint I would like to return there for a fourth placement, as well as going to some other toy development studios such as Windle in Newcastle. I also wish to attend the coming London Toy-fair as this would be a really influential event for me to show off my portfolio and to research for my final major project. I intend to become very good at pop-up crafting and to make this the focus of my final major project.

resolved cluedo rooms

theses are the fully illustrated prototypes of my rooms, the resolved versions will be printed with a thin matt laminate to prevent damage.