Here is the final animation my group have produced for our 15-30 second Animated short Assignment.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YSqn5RoCed4nl4jCd0GEZ-a1zl5dDCea/view?usp=sharing
Reflection:
This assignment has been the most challenging project so far, however I did enjoy the process more than I expected. Going into this, with only the experience of Maya through my previous modelling assignment, I was quite nervous to end up producing a whole animated short. As a result me and my group have made an adventure themed animated short about an alien and a giraffe.
I am very proud of this project! Before this I could never imagine myself producing 3D animation, but now that I have it would be great to try it out more. I feel I did great in organising myself and the group in preparing for each task of the project, I was able to animate the scene well, I made sure to experiment and try new things to see if they would work, I would always try to find a solution to a problem and made sure I was keeping in contact throughout the project. However there are also parts where I thought I could do better such as getting used to the character rigs and using them properly, making sure my files are okay before I proceed to avoid wasting time, and I could have learned to organise textures/materials better in a Maya file.
Other than this, this was a great experience. My teammates were amazing and worked hard on this project. They were kind, they voiced their opinions and they made this project very fun the times we were chatting and hanging out.
Overall, my teammates and I did very well in creating a genre, narrative and character concept, using design thinking processes to overcome problems, using 3D pipeline workflow to prepare for animation, and communicating with each other / working together.