Looking back on my work I was very proud of what I was able to create, I’m rather happy with all the work that I have created over the past semester, and I believe that it is obvious I had made improvements and gotten stronger, but I know there are improvements I could also make.
What went well was my improvements in my art over the term, it can be seen through my work that I grew stronger and more confident with my ability in some aspects of my art, for example I tried more with backgrounds, and my use and application of colour, especially with character design. I am also happy with my improvement in teamwork, while I was nervous at the start of the semester I improved and now work well and happily in a team.
While I had many things to be happy about there are many things I could also improve on, I could have put more work and time into some of my work even for the groups I wasn’t passionate about, I could’ve made better improvements on the thumbnails and tried harder to improve my work. I could have also posted my blog after the lesson so the information would have been fresh in my head instead of waiting weeks and then posting them all in bulk. While there are ups and downs, I did have fun with creative teamwork, getting to hear everyone’s ideas and getting to share mine was very fun and I’m happy that I was able to express excitement in my group.
While I am proud of my animation there are things, I could do to improve it. I’m very proud of what I created but looking back there are things that I dislike, like weird jumps and there’s some weird background issues, to change them in the future I think I would do my animation on one programme instead of multiple different ones, I would also ask for more feedback and to make the animation smoother and easier to look at. I do think I timed myself well though, from the first week I was working every other day from roughly 10 to 5, so timer management wasn’t an issue and I think I wouldn’t change that, but I would change my approach and attitude as I would’ve noticed mistakes earlier and then I would’ve avoided all the mistakes in my final animation.
I would also change my attitude if I were to do this again, I was very attached to the first original group I was part of and I didn’t really want to be part of another group so I may have seemed bored or uninterested in their group, I would change this if I was to do this again and try to be more engaging and interested in the groups so I could have fun and create better work.
Another thing I would change if I was to do the semester again, I would follow tasks better and follow the requirements closer, sometimes I to get ahead of myself and work on things before reading or understanding the whole task so I would work on, so I don’t have to spend more time repeating the tasks because I got ahead of myself.