Pictoplasma Rabbit mini Project Evaluation & SWOT analysis




This was just  very small project we did for the Pictoplasma Easter Bunny competition. We were just asked to look at some different rabbit characters and then design our own. We would then upload our character onto the Pictoplasma website before the competition entry deadline. 

I sketched out a bunch of different designs and ended up running with a sort of angular ghost bunny.




I'm kind of happy with the design I cam up with in the little time I put in. I did really like the more renaissance portrait style designs i cam up with I just didn't feel confident enough in my skills to get them digitised in a way that looked good before the deadline.

Strengths
  • Helped get me used to creating work for a brief and also sharing said work
  • It was good to see what everyone else was coming up with for the competition and comparing it to my own ideas.
Weaknesses
  • the short deadline made me want to avoid experimentation of techniques.
  • I think the character I came up with failed to stand out against everyone else's. 
Oppertunities
  • practice working on a live brief 
Threats
  • the biggest threat was the short deadline.

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