Animation Research and Practice - Week 6 - Production Schedules and Cross Disciplinary Research

This week we discussed production schedules and Cross platform referencing.

Production Scheduling - 

Sam gave us some key points to think about when organising our work and time:

• Where will my time be spent? most will be really time consuming?
• What will I put off? So I can plan this in
• Have deadlines
• Be flexible in the schedule, not everything will go to plan.

Homework - 

To create a production schedule for our work areas. I already have one in place and so will add to this and carry on with this.

Cross Disciplinary - 

This when you remain rooted in you area of research but you use other fields to back up your findings and to better understand them 

Inter Disciplinary - 

This is where you use combine disciplines and move around them without being rooted to a specific one. 

The above is good when something from a different field can back you up or is similar to what you are talking about and so you can use it to help your understanding. 

How to structure an essay:

• make a plan and stick to it
• based on the plan work out what is missing from your arguments and find relevant data to fill in the gaps
• keep it length appropriate 
• work this into the production schedule 
• rework your plan as needed 

Ross's Lecture - 

For Ross's lecture we continued to loo at how we can use other disciplines to better our work.

Trans disciplinary-

         A practice that transcends disciplinary boundaries

Multi disciplinary- 

          Involves drawing appropriately from multiple disciplines to work on individual problems and redefine them to reach new solutions.



Reasons for researching outside of animation - 

-Animation literature is a small and a developing field so there may not be a lot on one topic and so using other disciplines we can expand on our work.

-Adds validity to the argument