This blog post is about evaluating each person's role in this project. It can be a little tricky, because in the first stages of the project each person had a very set role, but as the project went on and some people didn't come in much, or had other projects to work on, the more committed members of the team had to spread themselves across many areas.
Because this project was largely a case of trial and error and many people spreading themselves across different roles, it is difficult to categorise them in an industry-standard manner. I have, however, noted whether they contributed more to design or making, and if they displayed good 'soft skills' such as management and budgeting.
I have very loosely ordered the team from who I felt put the most time into the project, to the least, and why I feel this way about their performance. However, it was a close call for some people on who put more time in.
Esme came in a little later in the project after she had finished other projects, but when she had the time, she was an invaluable team member. She did not contribute design work due to her later joining but put in an awful lot of highly skilled effort into sculpting, rhenoflexing, painting and finishing off animals such as the zebras, cheetahs, lions, hyenas and giraffes. Esme also created a final budget sheet towards the end of the project.
Claire is from a more costume-orientated background and whilst she initially wanted to work more on the costume elements of this project, quickly stepped up to the mark when more prop-based skills were needed. She had great input on both designing, sculpting, rhenoflexing, painting and decorating, especially on the lions. Claire was also good at finding creative solutions to problems we encountered.
Rhian was a hard worker even when she fell ill partway through the project, taking home the giraffe heads to work on them from her sick bay. She sculpted the cheetah head from scratch with minimal input, and developed good skills in using the rhenoflex. She was consistently present during the project and worked well under the pressure of the creation of the giraffes, being such a difficult creature and design.
Naomi was the leader of fabrics for this project and did a great job at it. She showed strengths in designing her screen print, creating the fabric, and also physical skills in sewing together parts for the antelope and sizing up the pattern. She has proved rather invaluable on the team, consistently working hard to create all of the different colour combinations for the animals and sourcing fabrics.
Andrea showed good input into both designing and making in this project. She was one of four team leaders including myself and showed some good 'soft skills'. She created initial design drawings for the hyena, elephant, Zazu and the antelopes, which were all useful in deciding how we were going to make them. She showed some good initial sculpting skills and developed her skills in rhenoflexing throughout the project. She spread her help wherever was needed throughout the project, and turned the cut ducting into elephant legs herself.
Amy was another team leader and proved invaluable in team management. She wrote up the initial learning agreement contract and was excellent at communicating with the team. She also developed her sculpting and rhenoflexing skills with input on the zebras, lions and hyenas. She had a good general level of commitment to the project, turning up to most working days and all meetings, including note taking during discussion.
Becca did excellent work both designing and making Pumba. Although she had a lot of commitments to other projects, she completed the role she chose in good time and also with minimal budget spent! She had very good attendance to the group when not working on other projects.
Ollie worked with Becca on making Pumba, and they were a good team. Ollie also created some designs, and helped Melissa with some finishing touches on the giant Mufasa head. He also did some sculpting work on the zebra maquette. Like Becca, he had a lot of commitments to other projects, but outside of this had good attendance and commitment to the group.
Lorraine was the fourth team leader and usually had good attendance outside of flights home surrounding easter. She showed good sculpting and rhenoflexing skills in making an antelope maquette and one of the cheetah masks. She also helped Naomi in some of the screen printing and sewing on the antelope. Whilst she was present for a good amount of time on the project, I feel she could have used her time more effectively in some instances.
Kristina was present for a large amount of the project and showed good developing skills in rhenoflexing and gum taping masks. She also had some small input on sculpting. She spent time pattern cutting and rhenoflexing for the large amount of hyenas in the group, whilst also working on other projects.
Melissa took on the role of leading the making of the whole giant Mufasa head, but I feel she lacked confidence in her work. She completed the work set to an ok standard but had difficulty communicating with the group.
Connor did a good job in completing three bird kites for the project that matched his concept art well, fulfilling his role chosen at the start of the project. Although he had attendance issues, he was a hard worker when he was in the studio.
Charlie joined the project at a late stage after completing work on other projects, and was helpful in providing scrap materials for the project - she sourced and donated the large amount of goat fur we used on many of the masks. She also showed good practical skills in making the elephant's trunk and rhenoflexing.
Shona started this project with a lot of enthusiasm, but was sadly whisked away by tight deadlines and high pressure in her other projects. She made an excellent start on the antelopes, producing good designs and a promising initial body, but unfortunately could not spare any time towards the end of the project.
Alex dipped in and out of the project dependent on workloads from other commissions, but showed promising practical skills in helping on sculpting the lions and creating the manes and attaching the fabric drape to the zebras.
Tasmin also entered the project with a lot of enthusiasm, but like Shona was whisked away by other high-pressure projects. However, at the start of this project she showed promise in designing and making two gum tape prototypes for the hyena heads.
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