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Finlay Mander

25.02.2021: I created a feedback survey on freeonlinesurveys.com and have posted it into a digital art feedback discord server as this way the feedback is non bias but it also meets the appropriate target audience. I’m going to leave it a week and then check the feedback from it.

Product feedback survey.

The feedback I got was from a discord server I found advertised online, the server had text channels for getting feedback from different types of digital art. I asked if they would mind completing a survey for my school work, which they agreed to. A week later, a total of 6 people had taken part in the survey.

Before anyone was took part in the survey I asked them to watch a YouTube video I put together, which showed the renders of the finished product. The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/aerJdU4sOEs .

Once the participants had watched the video I put together highlighting my product, they were first asked to display their overall thoughts on the quality of my product through a five star rating. Out of the six participants the average rating was 4.5/5.

The second question I wanted to find out was if the colour schemes I created during my planning stage worked well in the product. I asked the participants the following statement “The colors in the environment work well together”. To find out what people thought, I used a bar chart to get a visual representation of this. As you can see on average the rating was 7.83/10. Showing that everyone somewhat agreed to the statement, some more than others.

Next I was interested in finding out what people thought of my skills and abilities when it comes to modelling and texturing assets. I did this by using two different pie charts. One for the models themselves and another for their textures.

This kind of response is what I was hoping for. Ideally I would’ve liked six out of six on both but it shows that modelling is my stronger skill and that there is room for improvement when it comes to me texturing the models to make them all work well together in a scene.

I was interested to find out if people could identify the theme of the product just from the short promotional render video I created. This was important as I hoped to display a 21st century post apocalyptic desert environment. In my feedback I had mixed responses, although most of the answers where on the right track. For instance, ‘abandoned city’,’maps of western video games’ and ‘video game sub-contexts’. It was interesting to see how different people interpreted my products theme whilst staying on the same line as each other.

After this question I was interested to see if my environment reminded anyone of any particular franchise. Whether its a movie, game or book. The replies were really interesting, to have my desert theme environment compared to Red Dead Redemption was really rewarding since I had looked at that games promotional art a lot on ArtStation and took inspiration from the assets used in that game to help build up a scene.

I wanted my work to meet the right criteria to be promoted and advertised. I asked the participants if the scene I had created could be used to promote an upcoming game. 100% of the participants agreed that the environment is at a standard to be advertised on steam (a digital market place).

Next I asked if my the promotional material I created for my product was fit for purpose. Again, 100% of participants agreed that it would be fit for purpose if advertised on a digital marketplace.

To end the survey, I wanted to make sure I could get as much feedback as possible.

The Participants

I wanted to out source the survey participants to avoid bias in the replies, this is why I looked online for a discord server for getting feedback on digital media. This way I could get honest, constructive responses from someone I dont personally know. From talking to them and looking around the other non English text channels on discord some of the survey participants are from all over the world, with some being from Russia, France and Spain. This is why I preferred to ask people from outside the classroom since it shows how a product could be perceived on a global level.