Reflection
Looking back on this project, there were many things I could do different, I am happy with what I picked to do for my role in the group, however I am not happy with how I executed most of this. I wish I had gone back and focused more on learning better ways to model and made the models a little better, I like how some of them came pout like the trees and the graves however I feel like I should’ve tried harder with making my own original models in place of using and copying YouTube videos with minor differences.
I’m happy with how I worked within the group, I feel like I communicated and engaged well with the members of my group when I was having issues and when I needed help, I offered my help at every turn and tries to help where I could and I always made sure to be online incase I needed to be reached, I’m happy with how I approached this and I wouldn’t change much about working in a group.
I think I could’ve tried harder with most of my work, like the lighting and the rendering are a little messy because I struggled learning them in such little time but I tried my best with them. I’m happy with what I made, though I know I could’ve done so much better if I had put my mind to the work and tried harder.
Looking back I have several ideas for what I would change if I were to repeat this. I would practise more in areas I struggled, such as rigging and unwrapping instead of being left confused and rendering the files unusable by waiting until the last second to get help. looking back I would have also left more time for rendering and I would know to check the render several times over instead of letting it render out completely before realising that I have messed up and the render is not working, this happened twice and it did set us back at my fault.
I would also not blindly trust the work of others again, I would make the effort to check things that are sent the second they are sent and I would not leave it for a couple days before checking,
In general, in regards to my year in 3D animation I think that I improved a lot. I adapted as fast as I could and tried to learn quickly while issues were rising outside school. I’m happy with my improvement and I think that I would’ve learnt quicker if I had a better attitude towards the work. I did a lot of the weekly challenges but did struggle with a few, my issue was I never went back to them, I also failed to post these to my blog continuously which is rather annoying as I did try with the weekly challenged and had a lot of fun with a few, if I can find a better way to upload after submission I will upload them.
In conclusion. I know where I went wrong and where I can improve to strengthen my skills and my ability to animate efficiently and quickly, I am upset with myself for not finding these reasons sooner however I am new to a lot of this and I didn’t realise at the time there was a much easier way to do things instead of how I was treating it