Time Art: Final Comments

After the screening of my work (although mine did not play for unknown reasons) I feel I should give a few quick last comments about my experience of making the piece.

Overall I feel I did really well in achieving in this project. My matte painting idea was quite ambitious, and something I had never done before, so I used a hell of a lot of things to help me. I spent most of my time in Photoshop just trying to create the world I wanted to portray, and despite it taking a long time I think it was worth it. My process in making the matte painting involved a lot of just looking at the work other people had done, which was something similar to what I wanted to do, and then finding a way to re-create it in After Effects or Photoshop. A couple of tutorials I found most helpful can be found at the URL's below:

http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-realistic-underwater-scene-in-photoshop--psd-28309

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjdmXYRzAWg

http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutorial/create-a-destroyed-city-scene-using-photoshop/2718

My idea was conceptually quite good, relevant topic to use as a basis for my work. My two screens on either side of my matte painting I think got the message across, although this is something I found particularly difficult to judge. One of my main weaknesses in my work is not knowing whether the audience will understand what I mean when I show them something, purely because I know more in terms of the meanings behind what I am doing than perhaps they would. I got around it somewhat by showing people my work, but with this project in particular I struggled with the balance between giving the audience relevant information, and being too obvious about it.

The only other thing I could say about this project is that if I were to do this again I think I would possibly develop my idea a little further and change it somehow, just slightly. I am happy with the result I got, but I feel that the subject matter I was talking about was so rich that there could have been something so much more interesting to explore within it.