What worked well? & Why?
Everything I did by myself worked really well, it was just learning from the lectures, doing some more personal research then taking notes and doing some exercises or studies. I didn’t have to push myself into getting any of them completed before this deadline, I’m currently now just focusing on the animating part for the next assignment. Since I don’t have the animation completed at this stage, I can’t really talk much about that but I do look forward in getting it completed and combined.
What did not work well & Why?
So far not many things aren’t going well for myself in this module, personally, my time management of trying to balance out Uni, Work and just free time isn’t the best. I can sometimes become over reactive then stress out thinking that I don’t have enough time for certain things planned. This could be easily fixed if I keep a time table and probably just setting up some hours to keep my head in completing certain parts of assignment.
What did I learn about creative team work?
From my personal experience, I learnt about appreciating everyone’s effort and work shared with group. This helps push the team forward and allow us as a group to move forward and get inspired to have the motivation to do the work , sadly a minor amount of people just don’t provide any work. From changing group 3 times, there’s always a few people in the group that are more quiet so just asking them the question helps get them involved in building up ideas and make them more comfortable to speak up.
If I were to start the module again what would I do differently and why?
I’m quite happy with what I’ve done so far, there isn’t really a whole lot to point out or talk about apart from time management as mentioned before. I should probably just get myself a whiteboard then slap down some time to get some type of schedule going so I can get less stressed.
What do I need to do more/less of to improve my animation practice?
I believe I need to do more personal exercises and less research, it appears that I research a whole lot of things but sometimes I just don’t apply them to the actual work cause I rarely do the physical study after listening or reading. I should also try not giving myself something easy to begin with before doing something more complicated as it can put me off in completing something when I’m sitting down at my desk.