Cardboard Project

The project is one of the things that I have actually enjoyed doing so far. The dots are just dots and while they initially were interesting, the tedium that came made it unenjoyable to work on. The newspaper collage was also the definition of tedious. This however, was fun to make the concept art and see it come to fruition. It was frustrating and I never want to see cardboard again, but at least I can be sort of proud of the toils of my labor. 

Throughout the project there seemed to be a common thread. Everything I made had to be cut and re-cut because everything had to fit perfectly for it to work. I spent an entire 2 days of work just getting the base structure to fit on my body well. But after this period I could "mass-produce" whatever needed to work on the rest of the project.   

Works in progress shot

Certainly not to sound arrogant(because mine was far from the best out there), but I was really pleased with how this ended up turning out. It works well as both the magnolia seed and highly stylized armor. I really don't like the amount of empty space, though. I think it could have looked a little more cluttered, though I'm not sure how I would have done it. Also I think the main problem with this is the fact that I completely forgot that I had to have a side to the armor, and it is much less detailed than the rest of it.

For my critique I got a 4, 2.5, 2. My 2.5 for craft was because one of my side pieces became partially unstuck and the other one was hanging by a thread. The side pieces were holding up fine, but decided to completely screw everything up and break literally 5 seconds before I had to perform. I don't necessarily disagree with his score, but was incredibly disappointing after all that work to get such a low score just because some stupid little piece decided to break. To add to that, other people's work also failed spectacularly and weren't penalized at all. I got a 2 for performance which is whatever. I will never be a performer and am fine with that.

I have no idea how grading will work for this, but if it's just adding together the three scores then I feel a little gipped. I don't think performance should have that much weight since we're being grading on the cardboard project and not how much of world class actors we are.