As this is a year long module I've been working on it for a long period of time and I tried to look at many different angles of animation and different kinds of practitioners. I did this so that I would be able to use this module to expand what I knew and also learn about techniques that may not be taught to me on my course. I looked at not only practitioners but also the advancing technology and different books around my subject.
I have learnt from all of my research about techniques like puppet making and what goes on behind the scenes of quite a few methods of animation. By doing this it has allowed me to see the ways that animators work and has given a little bit more of an insight into what kind of roles there are and what these roles have to do. I really liked learning about these kind of things as I think it's important to understand the amount of different roles there are instead of just 'animator'. I also really liked that I could look at any kind of animation that interested me and there really were no constraints as to what I could look at! This gave me lots of freedom to look at everything I wanted to.
To improve my overall research I feel like I could have looked at even more techniques and possibly some tutorials too so that I could learn a little more into how they do it. I did look at a couple of tutorials here and there, but next time I could look at more and possibly in more detail to really get how they create these animations. It might have also helped me to look at even more different animations and really out there ones so I could really see the extent of the animation industry and how crazy it can be.
Next year I can apply what I learnt through PPP, that I definitely want to look at more stop motion, claymation and puppet making next year as after researching this it really inspired me to have a go myself! I now know that I want to stray away from digital and maybe only use it as a combination instead of just fully digital and this way I think I will progress more in my own animations.
