Crit week Reflection

So last Friday we had our crit progress presentations. I took the time to record my the feedback this time so I could listen to it later and its proved to be rather beneficial. So I was told I have made process since my last presentation 4 weeks ago along with the improvements I am making toward my animation ability's and my ability to analyze what I am learning or testing. However, Two things that where pointed out were to make sure I was coming to a conclusion of the theory's i was testing. For example, When I was testing power centres i did not make a conclusion on whether or not they actually contributed to creating personality in a character. Another point was toward what specific theory's or techniques was i taking from different acting methods.

Good Points   

Made progress toward deciding where my project is going since pitch week

Conducting Animation Test that are improving my ability to animate and analyze personal gaps in knowledge.

Consider Brecht as a cross comparison to  Constantin Stanislavski.

"Making Sure everything my character does  is because of my characters personality" was considered a good sentence and then to tell them more about the personality and how that affects directly toward animation.

is it possible to create a character animation without your personality influence it and if so wouldn't that personality have to be based on someone else.

Bad points

 Possible limitations from the rig

Little breakdown to what I am aiming to achieve with these acting methods and how it applies directly to animation and is it even useful.

The Use of cartoon rig while considering the realism of Constantin Stanislavski

Critical frame work is fresh and haven't had time to feed into practice

Things to try

A breakdown of Marys personality and develop a method for her to express her emotions and actions.

Basing a character on another actor or actress and how they handle things in certain films.

Judging by the feedback and my answers to the their questions on the recording. Id honestly day I done a terrible job of describing my project during this presentation and I will need to take the time to both clarify this for myself and for future presentations. I have at least made progress and shown that to my peers however I cant communicate my mindset correctly.... So how can i do this more effectively?

I think one of the main issues i created on myself was to decide not to talk  much about Lilly and Marys personality. This was in fact a huge error for the presentation as it was the area mainly recommended during feedback. The reason i chose not talk about their personality in depth was because that is supposed to be the message that is communicated by the performance of my characters at the end of this project. ....... Whoops