Throughout this semester I believe the homework tasks given each week went well. I believe my understanding and direction of research over each subject helped to further my work where I feel at the end helped me gain a batter skillset. Although I struggled to keep up to pace each week with completing the work in time for the following week I enjoyed and learnt a lot from each study from many resources and thoroughly enjoyed being in class and getting inspired by many other creatives.
I believe each subject picked went well because there was a lot of artistic freedom surrounding the techniques that were learning about. when creating work for each week it gave me the ability to explore many different studies within the subject material and the motivation practice needed fundamentals. However, I feel as though each task was rather fast and I could not complete the work for each week in time because of the time constant of moving on to a new task the following week. It made me lose focus and made me feel rushed, the work overall started to pile up.
From working in many groups, I learnt a lot about creative teamwork and sharing ideas. I learnt how to talk more openly to people and how to tolerate uncomfortable situations better. Teamwork gave me InSite towards people and how follow along with their ideas and plans coming to a compromise rather than chose my own work. I learnt how to negotiate peace rather than divide the group over a small disagreement and how to give constructive criticism. If I were to restart the module again I would mainly focus my time on the creative output rather than the studying as I missed out on being able to create a lot of characters and concepts as I was caught up the whole time catching up on work from the following weeks and deeply studying the material I was completing.
I believe to improve my animation practice I would pick scenes that would be easier to animate something achievable rather than challenging. Overall having a small end project but focus my time on a bigger creative production to improve my concepting skills. I think I could have done a lot better with many of my studies and if I could change them, I would focus more time on each particular piece I believe I could do this by setting a goal of doing around 2 pieces of work a day and to fix my sleep schedule in order to have a lot more extra prepared time in case things go wrong or life gets in the way of my work.
I believe I should keep my positive, planned, and prepared outlook on getting work done to limit stress. Always planning and structuring things to remember what is to be done next, it’s what helped keep me on track. I also think I should keep the number of times I take breaks as they helped to bring back motivation towards completing my work.