This was the week of the group presentation, fortunately I was able to resolve the issues independently. I did this by uninstalling Maya, deleting Autodesk, remaking an account, verifying my student id and reinstalling Maya. On examining discord the group asked me to compete a swamp shack and wanted a log cabin stylized the same way from Legend of Zelda, I felt competent in achieving this and research stylized houses within the Zelda franchise, most of this was 2d and tried to recreate in a 3d way and uploaded to the presentation for Monday. On Monday I sat with my group in class who referred to me as “the one who should not be named”, this made me feel dejected. I felt my group didn’t appreciate any of the work I had contributed. I completed the presentation and was able to show my work considering the limited time I had to create it.
I was ridiculed by my groups art director. My anxiety was elevated as he continuously stated university staff had suggested I be removed from the group. This made me feel useless and undervalued by the group despite completing what was asked of me and more including sound design. As a result of my abilities surrounding my autism, I was incredibly anxious and wanted to detach myself from the group. After the presentation I reflected on my learning and identified areas for improvement using feedback from the group. As a result I researched independently YouTube tutorials and readings such as the architecture of log cabins using Maya.
I also redid my log cabin entirely and redesigned the spaceship for the game using ideas from star wars and videogames to determine the level of design that was required as feedback suggested it was not of an appropriate standard. On reflection of week 7 I felt this was perhaps my most stressful week however I was able to reflect on my learning and identify areas for improvement and independently worked to increase my capabilities.