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my project time line is complete and i now am ready to look over my work, checking spelling and grammer

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I want to finish up on typing up my blog and evaluate on each of the days.
As a stretch i will change around my planning page on the site.

What i accomplished.
I am almost complete with the blog and I have changed the plan and have finished up the bibliography instead. I also have changed up the whole site not just the Planning page and touch ups with the changing is still needed.

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This week I will begin drawing three concept sketches for my fourth wildlife profile, which will take 10 minutes per sketch or 30 minutes overall. I will then write two paragraphs per sketch, this will take 15 minutes per paragraph, or 90 minutes overall.

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I will then begin drawing two concept sketches each, for my two environment descriptions, these will take 15 minutes each, or 60 minutes overall. I will then write a paragraph for each sketch, each paragraph will take 15 minutes to write, and overall it will take 60 minutes to write all paragraphs

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I will then compile my initial sketches and combine elements from them to digitally create a detailed design for each wildlife profile and environment description. Each sketch will take 60 minutes maximum.

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This week I will write 7 paragraphs of research contextualization, over a time span of 40 minutes.

I will then begin writing my fourth wildlife profile, which will consist of; a name, a classification, a physical description, and a behavioural description. This will take approximately 30 minutes.

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I will then begin my initial concept sketches, drawing 3 variants for each animal profile, and drawing two for my environment descriptions. Each initial animal profile sketch will take 10 minutes maximum, and each initial environment sketch will take 15 minutes maximum.

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I will then begin my detailed concept sketches, drawing a detailed sketch for each animal profile and each environment, based on aspects from the initial sketches I prefer. Each sketch will take 45 minutes maximum.

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Produce more idea concepts with more of an influence from a "Futuristic" aesthetic.

End of Session: I didn't complete my target as I was fleshing out my "Styles" page. But this has helped me to find artists for me to take inspiration from and create studies from. This will help me to come up with unique art styles for my own work.

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Darran Shanahan's targets for today (30/04/19)

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Darran Shanahan's targets for today (30/04/19)

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In today's session I plan to continue my production work write up which I will carry out using my Wix website.
I will revert to friend, piers and my tutor for feedback on my work so far.
By the end of the session I hope to have completed at least two paragraphs from my production write up

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today i am going to look at texturing. I will try out simple texturing and downloading a photo and applying it to a box. Then i will investigate how to UV Unwrap and apply a texture.

After today's lesson i have completed all my reflections. i have learnt about texturing and wrote about it on my reflection page.

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Regarding my feedback i will be looking through my work and explaining why i am doing things and how, the work i am doing, links with my career aspirations. For a stretch goal i will push to add more writing to all my the pages i have created. Linking this to my goal for today i will explain everything more into detail.

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Viking intro research finished, started researching into Norse Mythology and Day in a Life.

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In todays lesson im going to be gathering more images for my victorian research. I have already looked at images of assets im going to create but today i will look at artstyle, clothing etc, things im not going to create but stuff i should still look at. For my stretch goal i will start on my final piece again. I will begin to add more assets into my scene.

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A major issue that is hard to ignore is a complete lack of a bibliography or source referencing.
I also became aware of the lackluster detail put into "idea 3" compared to the other ideas.
However I like that you have cited the necessary/primary resources for each of the other ideas.
Your Planning page seems to have fallen behind, and this is further shown in some previous blog entries remaining empty.
I would recommend creating a new site page, dedicated to your final idea. While on the topic of your final idea, I feel it would be more beneficial to shown a written evaluation referring to each idea, to better justify your final decision.
Your extensive research page, is presented as very sparse, leaving the page seeming either incomplete or with little work on it. Perhaps you should decrease the empty space between paragraphs. On the topic of presentation, I would recommend adding a couple of images pertaining to each idea, instead of just the first two.
An added tip when it comes to planning and setting targets, would be to add how much you estimate you will write and how long you estimate writing it would take.
While on the development log, I have noticed inconsistent grammar, I would suggest either proof reading the page or getting someone else to proof read it.

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Positives first: Your site as a very good layout; many separate pages for each scenario so nothing feels too compiled or mixed together. You have stated what you want to achieve from this project very clearly and have listed some interesting sources at best.  Your ideas are well explained with feasibility and in-depth understanding.

As for negatives, all I'd say needs  work is further development on the research. For example, you listed compilations of concept art images you found interesting, but you could go further with annotations; what do you like about them?

Either way, good job

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EFMP feedback for Jacob Elgar by Darran Shanahan

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EFMP feedback for Jacob Elgar by Darran Shanahan

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Maybe be more specific on what idea you have chosen under the title 'choosing my 2 final ideas'.
For research you could add a more expansive mood board for you chosen ideas.
I think your idea development is the strongest part of your EFMP and don't see a need to improve it.

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the site is good it has a lot of info showing that you have thought through the task at hand quite well. The work is very clear, there seems to be a fair bit of research done but maybe a bit more could be done, with idea gen you have shown a large amount of different ideas and why you have chosen the idea that you are using.
I personally cant think of any current improvements.
The only problem that I have is the amount of scrolling on the pages maybe a back to top of page button?
Alex

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FMP Review for Darran Shanahan by Kevin Prendergast 

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FMP Review for Darran Shanahan by Kevin Prendergast 

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From what I have read so far(there is a lot left to read) it's difficult to find any major flaws in your Project or it's presentation everything is clearly laid out with useful links provided to find your research and also the work that has inspired your project. A small suggestion would be to branch out your Extensive research to other Genres, i know you are primarily sticking to Fantasy, but looking at some buildings from perhaps a Horror or Steampunk setting may give you some extra ideas as you may find a part of a design that you really like and wish to include. other than that i'd say your project is brilliant and well thought out as you have shown a lot of consideration for each of your initial ideas. XD
Kevin P.

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The idea you want to pursue is clear to see in your wix site, being the main focus of what you have talked about. It is talked about in quite a bit of detail, but remember to structure it in a way that makes it easier to read, as segmented text blocks are a lot easier to read then a giant wall of text. There was no current research shown on the page dedicated to it, so the research will need to be added when it has been started on. Should also think about how to present the research in order to make sure it is presented in a simple and easy way to read through. I could not see any idea development currently visible on the wix page or the trello you created, so it may be an idea to think of possible alternatives to your idea that you could achieve in order to justify why you have chosen it. Also consider aspects of these ideas that could be used to improve your current idea as well.

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Link your ideas with target audience Idea 1 Talks about Skyrim but the audience area mentions zombie survival. The Ideas also don't have a clear understanding of what you will be creating, so add a section explaining what it is you are making and why. Go through your work and Capitalize the right words
It's good that you have gone out your way to get references and primary research my talking to people in the industry.

Today i gathered my images i set out to find. The mood boards are complete and i started creating a new asset for my final project.

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You week plan is good, it shows you are focused and know what you're doing each week

Your targets are good. it looks like your meeting your targets

Your initial research is good, instead of putting links under the pictures make a bibliography. I like you have lots of different inspirations to back up your work. Getting a feel for different games to gain ideas for your own is good.

complete idea gen

For your artists you are looking at try and get some examples of there work

who they are, why you like them, why they inspire you, how you would use there type of art style .

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WWW:
- In-depth research so far.
- Clear understanding of the project so far.
- Story ideas and Gameplay ideas are looking good.
EBI:
- Maybe change the background for your other pages, as it's quite difficult to read.
- Make a start on your "Ideas and Concepts".
- Add images to your Research pages, to refer back to them.
- You could create a timetable for yourself, so you know what you're doing each week/.

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This is a very good effort - accurate values; well done Lively.
To improve, you  could add highlights and gradations in the shadows.

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This is very good work Faizaan; complete the work.

Add the highlights - refer to your reference.

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Good start Louis. Complete the work.

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Good work Alex - one of your best.
To improve, use the Blur tool to soften the edge of the light and shadows. Look at your reference image carefully and add the highlights.

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This is coming together very nicely Sam.
To improve, add ambient occlusion and highlights.
You could use the blur tool to  soften the edges of shapes.

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You have grasped the concepts rather quickly - well done. Your use of gradients if particularly tastefully handled.

To improve, be mindful of the perspective in your reference image.
Complete the sign.

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This is good Paul.

To improve, you could use the Blur tool to soften the edges of some values. You could also add highlights - refer to your reference image

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This is good Louis.

To improve,  you could pay attention to perspective in the reference image.
Look carefully at the values and ambient occlusion in the shadows.

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A good effort here Beth. Your understanding of values and their application is coming along nicely.

To improve, pay attention to perspective and how this affects the appearance of the form.

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This is good work Josh.

You could improve by paying more attention to the perspective of the object.
The values are mostly accurate but could be improved in the transitional areas - use gradients for this.

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Medal:
Very good line work that is easy to see.
Mission: Try to add the "1,2,3 Values" to bring the image to life.

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you've recreated your image with Photoshop very well, you have already established the lighter and darker areas the only thing i could suggest is to finish this work as i think it will look just as good when finished

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from what I can tell it is looking ok for a start however I would be able to give a bit of better feedback if the image was there for reference
You have definitely made it easy to find 1,2 and 3 on your image and I can easily tell what the object is so good job

Try to get your reference image up next to the drawing to help you it may help
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Good blocking out with a solid start to the left hand side and with the sideboard on the wall. To improve try and block both sides out and then start to block out shadows and such,.

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This is good start well done. you blocked it out very well and it looks like it is going to be a good piece of work. try to not have loads of different layers and use 1 layer only.

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Medal: The walls and shapes are very well blocked out, and most of the values are clear and distinctive enough.
Mission:  I think it could be improved by creating more of the objects in the scene, and one of the walls is not the correct value.

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The recreation is very faithful to the original image, both in shape and colors used, and with more time could have definitely been a perfect version. What was done well was the use of the shapes to create the segmenting of the image as shown in the picture to show the differing segments of the wall.

To improve, I'd recommend focusing on the shading of the wall to show off the parts that are sticking out of the wall as well as how the lighting affects the coloring of certain areas too.

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The shape of the fire alarm is well illustrated and the colour tones have different shades according to the photo reference. There isn't really much you need to do to improve, but maybe keep the colours within the lines unless of course that was a stylistic choice. Also RIP is an okay thing to say I know college is stressful and the sweet release of death is something we all desire at times, but we must live to see a new dawn. You're welcome!

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Your drawing is very accurate and the values are correct.
Try make the outer lines a bit more neater and try to think about adding a background.

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Darran Shanahan's feedback for Dan Currie

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Darran Shanahan's feedback for Dan Currie

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I think Dan has currently blocked out his image really well and I know with a little more time the image will really start to come together.
For improvement I suggest being on time to then able yourself to finish this image.

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The structure of the image is well constructed. The render and detail is going well however you should focus on the other things in the photo such as the shadows. And the other guitar.

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medal: A yes a quality impression of the light reflection on this red siren light you can sense the rays of the sun cascade against  this red light, with such detail as to make out the shape of the inner bulb. This image seeps a variety of well hued reds that compliment each other.
Mission: The perspective on this red light isn't as poignant, it is difficult to decipher whether this dark red protrusion is the cone surrounding the light or a miss-coloured shadow. The light also resembles that of a cursed blood soaked eyeball, or perhaps a stamp.
I am unsure if the pixel art aesthetic is a hindrance since you choosing to both copy realistic shading and stylize your art.

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really good work here same it looks almost 3d realistic and cant really think of anything bad to say about it so eh i guess don't forget to make an extra layer in case you make a mistake 9/10 ign.

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i drew about the pictures i done for my project

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i drew about the pictures i done for my project

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At the moment my project has been progressing slowly  due to work being lost.
in this lesson i aim to catch up on missing research and idea generation .
Reflection
i aim to achieve my goal during next lesson also

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My project has progressed smoothly. Today I will be continuing  my research and coming up with at least one game concept. I will be doing this on my Wix site.

I have made a little bit of progress however I still need to come up with more game concepts.

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My project is progressing smoothly as most of my research is complete and I have developed started ideas for my character designs. I intend to begin work on my first sketch today.
Outcome: I managed to create a moodboard combining parts of my research, and begin work on a first sketch. I intend to complete it by next week.

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- I'm going to be doing some helmetidea sketches based on "Valkyrie's".

- I'll be using the proportion skills I've learnt in the lesson.

- I'll be working in my sketchbook.

End of session:

- I have done 6 Helmet idea sketches.

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Paul Scott - Project Development (27/11/2018)

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Paul Scott - Project Development (27/11/2018)

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I will continue with coming up with concept ideas for the project and talking about them more deeply.

Review: I now have 3 ideas that I have developed on.

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I am going to write about the pictures i have on my work

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My project progression has slowed down this week due to other commitments however I feel as if I can quickly catch up. In today's session we only did a few drawings however I feel like I can take the head shape sketches away from it and use them in further studies. With the rest of the session, I will be catching up with my project schedule and by the end of the session, I hope to be back on track.

It's now the end of the session and I have progressed quite well for the given time. I have furthered my ideas however I will have to continue this on in the next session today in order to finish up.

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My project so far is going well I am a day ahead of my planned schedule.
In today's class  however I plan to make a start on my personal statement that I will need for applying to the next level of my education.
I will continue my project at home later today as I have my tablet and other software all setup and ready to use.

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I had to change my project from being race to culture due to the lack of research that I was able to find however I was able to catch back up and I still have the original race work
I still have now idea however of how to use graphics or 3d animation within my project however I will most likely be going for concept art of some sort
For the remainder of this lesson I shall be doing some polishing off on the research
I will be achieving this by doing some in depth google search
By the end of this session I will hopefully have all of the research finished and out of the way

I believe that I have met my target however it still dose need work

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It really be like that

My project is doing fine as of current, if you were to ask it how it felt on a scale of 10, 10 being feeling the best and 1 feeling the worst, it would probably answer with a solid 6.5. I am currently in the process of entering the space of deep research as i fathom dialogue and story for my final game concept. By the end of the day I will have written a basic outline and created a group of 3 - 5 characters.

In this session I have created the skeleton of a game story and created 2 characters. I still have the rest of the afternoon to fulfill my target for the end of the day.

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in the second part of the lesson i put my texture onto my model. i used uvmapping to line up the textures and apply them. next i will design and draw cards for my game which will finish of my creation part of the project.

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currently my project is slightly behind scheduled due to the difficulty in researching the topic however this should be a simple task to correct
I still have no clear idea of how to contextualize this lesson into the subject aim
I should be attempting to find the research that I am still laking for the remainder of this session
I will be doing this by doing in depth google searches
hopefully by the end of this session I will have finished the research and can move to the site

overall the main thing holding me back is the research as it is being difficult to find but overall I am doing fine

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Jacob Lively - Project Update. 20/11/18 And reflection

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Jacob Lively - Project Update. 20/11/18 And reflection

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Hello there, my project is making excellent progress, although I am a weeks work behind since I was in the lake district where my only internet access came from my phone and I will violently battle (with permission of course) anyone whom believes that using their phone for a wix website doesn't breach the human rights act. I will be refining (adding one or two additional paragraphs) my game concept and begin planning out a minimum of 5 images for my game. The planning out will take the form of a moodboard for each image, gathering reference images for the item inside of the image. Today's lesson on drawing gestures will help a lot since almost every image I intend to create will undoubtedly contain human beings doing more than standing in a static position.
The tools I will be using are:
-Wix website creator (Presentation Platform)
-Google image search (Collection of reference images)
-Photoshop (Compilation of reference images)
-Various as of yet unspecified sources of information (Research)

If I am left with additional time I will begin sketching out my images in rough disposable copies as practice.

Reflections-
I have finished updating and fufilling my final game concept as well as successfully creating 3 out of the 5 moodboards, the other 2 will be done this afternoon if there are no pressing matters in R&D

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My idea generations are getting closer to completion as I am beginning to compose ideas for character designs. I intend to focus on finishing off research for certain topics, and begin thinking of ideas for character designs.
Outcome: Managed to include more ideas for final character designs/costumes.

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- Currently my Project is getting somewhere.

- I have used what I learnt to help me with proportions.

- With the time I have left I'll be doing research.

- I'll be working in Wix.

Reflection -
I've just been doing some research but I really need to consolidate my research to then get some sketches down.

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Ethan Thomas - Project update - 20/11/18

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Ethan Thomas - Project update - 20/11/18

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My project made good progress yesterday, I didn't get everything I wanted to done though , as I passed out once I got in the house, thus not continuing with my work.

Luckily though I still understand what I want and what I need to do, I'm still not too far behind yet. I will continue to work and progress today, so that I may catch up and get started on my project for real.

I contextualize my Graphics work into this project by taking pictures of my work, uploading them onto my site, and analyzing them, so that I can use it as proof of learning for any work I do for my project.

By the end of the lesson I aim to have completed some more of my initial research section, ready to finish it off in R&D, later on today.

End of lesson reflection:
I've made more progress, getting another section of my research more or less done.

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My project has progressed quite far (for me) as I am starting to create design ideas for my chosen game. This lesson has been useful as learning more about human anatomy can be applied quite well to my design ideas if I choose to create characters. For the remainder of the lesson, I will be re-writing up the parts of my work that didn't save yesterday (I took pictures to record it so I didn't lose anything) and then will continue to work on designs.

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my project is going really well. i am starting the design part of my project. i am building and creating a card box which will be textured.

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Project development - Kevin Prendergast 

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My Project is progressing at a fair pace i am currently finishing idea generation and i still need to create something for planning and production.
i will be using what we have learned in this lesson i will use and contextualize for my practical work when i begin.
for the remainder of the session i will be completing idea generation
Reflection
today i finished my idea generation so that i have shown that i have considered at least 3 ideas before settling on a single one

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My project has progressed and I have chosen which themes I want to go for. In today's lesson I will be doing further research into my chosen themes so I can start thinking about a concept.

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So far for my project I have finished up my research and wrote down my three game ideas.
Again as of now I haven't contextualized any information from this lesson into my project as I'm still in the early stages, by this time next week I should be laying out my first concept sketches and know information from my graphics lesson will really come into play (i.e contrast, poses, line of action etc).
In today session I plan to write up my reasons for choosing Japanese culture and Kendo in particular which I will use as a foundation for my game concept.
I will use my Wix website to write up my reasons and complete this task.
By the end of my lesson i hope to have finished up my reasons for choosing my game concept and if I have free time I will conduct some extra research to further help me when developing my initial concept art.

This morning I completed my set targets and finished up my reasons for choosing both the culture topic and also reasons for choosing my game idea.

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My project is progressing well and according to my plan. This week I am going through decisive questions about my game and putting them all together. In this lesson we have learned about the energy line in poses. I will most definitely use this in future work as I plan to create scenes with characters in various poses.

With the time I have left today I will finish my drawing and mind-map for my planning. I will also see if I can narrow my game idea down and justify it.

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Today I've made quite a bit of progress with my project, I've got the site set up and have made swift progress with it. I will continue to work on this at home.

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- I'm currently involved in the initial research stage.

- I'll be working in Wix to get my work down.

End of session:

- Done some initial research.

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Paul Scott - Project development progress (13/11/2018)

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Paul Scott - Project development progress (13/11/2018)

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- How has my project progressed so far?
I have began my initial research for the project.

- How have I contextualized the information I have been learning in the session so far?
I will be researching more into the different topics I need to cover for the project.

- What am I going to be doing with the time I have left in the session?
Continue research and begin idea generation.

- How am I going to do it?
Using the internet to search for various articles and related videos.

- What will I have by the end of the session?
More research on each topic.

Reflection: I did more research into female representation in games.

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So far my project has come along a lot better then previous, as I have finished the initial research and am currently deciding on what topic I am going to pursue and what ideas for a game can go alongside it. I haven't contextualized the content of the lesson yet simply due to time, but this will get done soon. As said, by the end of the lesson, I will decide on my topic and begin making ideas for my game.

Reflection: I have completed what I set out to do this lesson, as well as decided on a game idea I want to use.

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My project has not yet progressed to far as i am still trying to decide on a final idea to move forward with and also i need to finish my research.
this session we practiced drawing more human anatomy and i may be able to make use of this when i begin my practical work on the project.
for the remainder of the session i am aiming to finish my research.

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My project is coming along well against the plan. I have chosen one of the categories and now I am conducting further research into the area.

The information from today's lesson will be valuable to me when I start drawing up characters for my project. I have some ideas already however I will be taking these into further consideration.

With the time left in today's session, I will be continuing my research and possibly beginning idea generation. I will be doing this by creating mood-boards and looking further into my chosen area.

At the end of the session, I hope to be further along in my plan and hopefully close to completing week one's goals.

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my project had a bit of a rocky start however I have begun to pick up the pace with the work and in conjunction the project as a hole has begun to pick up the pace
currently I have no clear idea how to add artwork into my project so that section will need some guidance if possible
with the remainder of this lesson I will be finishing of my views on the matter then I shall begin the research for conclusive info
primarily I will be doing this by typing and doing plenty of google searches
hopefully I shall have finished my views on the subject by the end of this lesson and have a decent start on the research

i think that I need to improve my work flow

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I have started my research into various differences and plan to continue to do so today.
I will spend today's session doing more research by visiting websites and making note on my Wix site.
By the end of the session I will hopefully have more research for my Wix site and hopefully have enough to select my overall theme.

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So far i have created initial research and now heading onto more developed research and Idea Gen.
Today i will be writing up ideas that i have for a game and then make it so that they fit around the topics even if it be loosely.
I will be looking at my research and other games that have been made and so i can think of basic ideas then expand upon them.
By the end of the lesson i hope to have 5 ideas wrote down so i can start to expand on one of them at home.

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My project hasn't progressed too far, I have only completed my initial research at the moment.
As of now I haven't contextualized any information from this lesson into my project as I'm still at the start of my project conducting research.
In today's session I plan to conduct more research into the Japanese culture and hopefully build on my initial project idea.
I will use the internet In my project time to conduct this research.
By the end of the session i hope to have gained a better understanding of the Japanese culture that I can then use in my game concept.

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As of today I haven't started the project yet, so today I aim to change that. I'm going to begin work on my Wix site, getting that started and beginning work on my research and idea generation. Unlike last project I have plenty of time and information, so I am aiming to make this far more presentable, putting far more thought into the paragraphs I write and the images I choose. I'm going to plan, to organize, to make sure this project goes well, or at least better than the last one.

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My project is progressing with research, and that along with Idea generations for my final designs is what I will continue to pursue this lesson.
Outcome: I managed to contextualize what I've learned in my lessons and improve upon my research.

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Today's goal: start project and plan out what i am doing over the next few weeks.

Reflection:
What have I learned?:
I have learned the best way to draw circles in a perspective, as well as extending shapes in perspective.

WWW: I drew good circles
EBI: I drew in pencil instead of pen.