During class and the days between those days were primarily more research based for the characters and the environment. The lesser known and favored characters are taking a bit more time compared to Wukong and the Monk because not much is made about them. But during those days I sketched out the zhubajie and some of Wujing. As for their environment I am having much more of a hard time but I am hoping the books that I found at an old book store will help me. I am currently working on Wukong’s environment.

Goal: by the end of October/beginning of November is to finish all of the digital painting portion of my project.

Meet with Bonnie and discussing the next step for my project.

I was not as prepared as I wanted to be for the defense but that is also because I was absent for a week when the class was going over the how the defense will be and I didn’t get the chance to have a practice round with my classmates. That responsibility is on me, but I manage to have something to show for the defense and I got a lot of good feedback. I sort of hoped for more but for the amount of work that I had I couldn’t get much since what I had was very little.

My hopes for my final review is to have all of the environments and characters completed and having them animated as well and I will be in the process or working with Bonnie to make them interactive.

I also will work on how I can make this project more personal and a true retelling of the old classic story.

My hopes is to connect the characters to the different levels of sin such as wrath, gluttony, greed, and etc by using colors and rewriting their story to connect with those themes.

I will also attempt to work more closely to my timeline and due dates I set for myself, which is still something I have a hard time following sometimes.