I chose the role of a rigger/animator as I have loved animating throughout my second year in university, and I knew I wanted to develop my skills even further in this area. However, I was not comfortable at all with rigging. Before this semester, I had done very little rigging and found it quite confusing. After this semester, I feel I have learnt much more than if I had picked another role because of this. I now understand rigging much more and feel confident in my skills. There were many things that went wrong in creating my character rig, and I would like to go back and practice these areas more, such as creating an FK/IK switch the correct way. However, I now know how to fix these problems and feel I could create a rig much quicker now.
I also feel more confident in working within a group. Being put into a group with unfamiliar people from another course for a module which was much tougher than previous modules gave me more confidence in working with other people form other areas of the industry. I feel this will help me when it comes to working in a fast-paced studio environment with new people.