Reflect Presentation

For my presentation I wanted a character that was simple and would work with the game structure of the slides. I felt that drawing a simple version of myself would work well with the reflect theme as I am reflecting on my experience over the year.

I began to sketch styles that I could draw the character with, I did not want the character too detailed as I wanted it simple as to be less of a focus than the main body of work that would be in the presentation. I wanted to show examples of work that I enjoyed doing whilst on the course, such as storyboarding and character designing.

I wanted a title card for the presentation and used the storyboard as an influence, using characters that I had created for previous animations with in the background and having my character in the frame as well. I thought having a title text would work with the composition as it reminded me of the covers for games, in which I could also end the last slide of the presentation as well.

I wanted to add some animation in the powerpoint which I had to make in the form of gifs, as the mov files were too big for the powerpoint to show. I could have embedded a youtube video but I did not want to have to click play for each animation to show, I wanted the animation to flow with the presentation.

I kept the main structure of each slide quite simple as I did not want the powerpoint to look too cluttered, as when you look at a powerpoint which has a huge body of text with multiple images cluttered together, it makes it hard to read and focus on the main point of the slide. I only wanted to include a line of text at the most for the dialogue box which I would go into detail as I talk alongside the presentation.