Study Task 2: Steven Universe: Battle of Heart and Mind/ Change your Mind

Steven Universe: Season 5 Finale

Steven Universe has been a leading modern cartoon for everyone, especially for the LGBTQ+ community. The most recent season has had huge character arcs and reveals that the fans have been waiting for almost the five years that the show has been on the air.

Battle of Heart and Mind was the show the conclusion to the confrontation between the Crystal Gems and the Diamonds. Steven has allied himself with Blue and Yellow Diamond to reason with White Diamond. When that doesn't go to plan Steven must find another way to get through to White Diamond...

In this Season finale, the Crewniverse (The crew that works on SU) went all out on animation, characters and story writing. As a big fan of the show for many years, this episode was a treat as a viewer and as an aspiring animator. 

The most talked about scene is definitely when the protagonist Steven fuses again with his gem side. This scene was animated by veteran Disney animator James Baxter; many had speculated that this scene had used a 3D model of White Diamond to get the panning shot, but it was all done by hand which is truly impressive.  

Study Task 7: Social Media Pro

Social Media that I use:

Instagram:  I use Instagram quite regularly, I check it every day several times and I try to post my art 3 times a week and to reach a wide audience.

Deviantart: I have a Deviantart "Core" Membership, which helps you gain a bigger audience on the site, I post quite regularly on the site, I try to post every week but due to uni work it is probably once a month. 

Facebook: I hardly ever post on my art facebook page, I only post when I post on Instagram but I don't always remember to link the posts to the Facebook page.

I want to engage with my audience more and get feedback on my art.

Things that I want to do to help gain a larger audience:

- Be more active on Instagram to gather more followers and to gain a bigger audience.

- When my Instagram reaches 100 or 500 followers I will post a video on my Youtube Channel.

- Create a proper Youtube Channel for my art.

- Post a video on self-improvement for 100 followers on Instagram.

- I also plan to do the "Mermay" challenge, to post a picture of my art every day and at least one video of me creating one of the pieces of art for my Youtube Channel.    

Study Task 6: How much do you need?

Here is my finance calculator for my annual expenditure:

This was quite an eye-opener for me, it was actually quite scary to see how much I spend in one year and made me evaluate what were my necessities and my luxuries.