Avatar Reflection/Evaluation

Avatar Reflection/evaluation:

With my avatar I had a few difficulties, but I am pretty pleased with my result.

Something I found hard was finding the right image for my avatar, because I already had an idea in my head, & so finding the perfect image could take even up to an hour. Secondly I also found it a bit difficult to do the lips perfectly, especially on my last avatar, because even though it was a large image, when I zoomed in to do the lips, it was very pixelated.

I also had some trouble with time management, especially with my blog. This was because I wanted to put the whole process at once not separately.

Something that really helped with the process was my personality profile (planning). I didn’t use the personality profile planning sheet given to us on Blackboard, however I wrote it myself & this helped me to plan the making of my avatar. It was very useful because I keep referring back to it to check if I had forgotten anything.

While making my avatars, I learnt a lot of skills & techniques such as different types of liquify, how you use a preset in hue/saturation & many more skills.

I am mostly satisfied with my end result. However, I think that if I had spent more time trying to perfect certain things, I would of been happier with my final avatars.

If I was to redo my avatar, I would make sure that I as always using a mask & not rubbing out completely because not using a mask often set me back quite a bit.