Week Eleven

Homework~

This week, we didn’t have any specific class assignments, as our focus was on progressing with our animations. Unfortunately, I feel like I made minimal progress, and it’s been a bit disheartening. I believe this might be due to the fact that I’ve been heavily focused on the animatic for the past few weeks, and as we near the finish line, I’m starting to experience burnout.

I tried to make the movements smoother and fix any areas that appeared off or too fast. While I believe some areas were successful, such as the moment when the mushroom’s arm is chopped off and everything that follows, I’m not satisfied with the scene where the cyclops is trying to grab the onions. I spent several days attempting to fix it, even isolating that particular section into another file to have more freedom with the frames. At one point, I think I lost the shape of the head, resulting in a strange jump between movements. This has made the scene quite challenging, and since I’ve already spent so much time on just the body’s movement without even touching the face, I’ve decided to leave it as it is for now and move on to other parts of the animation to ensure that another section doesn’t suffer.

Group Work~

As usual, we maintained our communication and collaboration throughout the week, exchanging advice and ideas. However, the primary focus for our group this week was preparing for the group presentation. We decided to make it a fun and lighthearted experience, using the opportunity to bond with the rest of the class. We created a funny PowerPoint presentation that was completely intended to make everyone laugh and keep them entertained as we shared our work. I had the chance to speak for three slides and thoroughly enjoyed sharing my perspective and experiences with everyone. It was a great opportunity to engage with my peers and contribute to the overall learning atmosphere, I also unexpectedly really enjoyed looking at everyone elses work as knowing what everyone’s progress was like and how it compared to my own served to ease my worries and motivate me to continue the work up until the deadline.