Evaluation:

As a whole I feel like the project evolved well. I started off by mind mapping from the word journey. I decided what better describes journey than the word evolution. Darwin's Theory explains how new species evolved. I tried to incorporate the stereotypical picture of evolution (apes evolving into humans) by replicating and expanding on this picture that the majority of people associates the word evolution.

The mistakes I made was through Photoshop in my opinion. I only developed knowledge for Photoshop this year so I had to figure out how to use different elements of the software. The most noticeable mistake I think I made was of the animation of the model who manipulated her body into an ape and slowly showed the formation of a human. The one thing I didn't think to do at the time and if I had more time I would change is to take the video portrait rather than landscape. If I had done this in the beginning I would avoided cutting the model's head out at some points in the animation.

I like the fact that I created some very original work. I have done lots of research and rarely seen anyone connect colour theory with evolution. I also love the the fact that I learnt how to use Photoshop and manipulate images into looking like something there not. Like when I added fur and claws onto the model.

The most successful shoot in my opinion was the post on "development of evolution" all I did was take a couple of photos of the model in different position and then manipulated them with Adobe Photoshp and created many different versions of the concept evolution. I like making continuous comparisons like in the image of the evolution figures filled in with New York City and the background being a jungle, the claws/hair disintegrating as the model evolves  all contrast each other. 

My least successful shoot was overlaying an ape's face with a models face. My aim was to create something close to Emmannuel Perez-Duarte but my Photoshop skills weren't strong enough. I feel like the images I produced looked very naive and unrealistic. It was difficult to do on Photoshop because I used tools like clone stamp and magnetic lasso to manipulate the apes face as much as possible but combining two sets of facial expressions (ape and human) was too difficult. 

If I could develop my project further and had enough time I would incorporate the theory of Kiki and Boboa into my project because I find it interesting how shapes connects to sound and if I could find a way to introduce that with the theory of evolution I think it could be successful. I would also develop my skills in Photoshop and instead of layering I would manipulate the models face into a merged version of ape/human. 

My chosen artists helped me inspiration wise. I found Daniel Lee as a very good starting point and I continued to find more and more about merging animals with humans. Although each of Daniel Lee's creations is extremely time consuming and depends on the right studio equipment/setting/space and Photoshop skills. I also based a lot of my ideas on Duarte because he successfully did what I intended to do! Plutchik (colour theory) helped me think about evolving colours from blue to pink whilst Stuetter gave me the idea of not using Photoshop as much to manipulate someone into an ape but to use artisitc skills like facepaint which I feel really worked in my favour as it was simple but seemed as realistic as a girl in a ape facepaint can possibly seem.