This module taught me A LOT. At the start, I was worried because I didn’t feel like I was creative enough and wouldn’t do as well as others in the class. The more we did in class, the more I started loving it (Aodhan and Sarah are definitely one of the reasons for this). The class just felt like a breath of fresh air because everyone is so nice and creative and being in that type of environment really made me want to go to class and try to become more creative myself.

I found that I struggled with confidence, especially at the start. When doing tone, value and colour, I was super worried that everyone else was going to see my work and think that it wasn’t good at all. To my surprise, my group loved it! Now I would say I am way more confident than I was; I started loving it when we went into character design. Character design was one of the first things I did over the summer before going to uni so it was comforting and I learnt a lot.

When it came to teamwork, I was definitely stressed out. I found it hard at the start because I felt like no one wanted to collaborate – mainly because we were all new. I made a discord server for us and tried to get everyone to speak as much as possible! In my group for the WIP, I felt at ease because I knew everyone I was in the group with. It was stressful as I found I had to make sacrifices to some things such as ideas for my final animation and it was hard trying to get everyone on the same page at the same time. In the end, I’m really happy that this was the case though. It has taught me a lot of things personally such as time management and perseverance. Before, I was worried about what other people thought of me but now, I just do what I love and take constructive criticism!

I think I need to watch more animated shows/ shorts just to try to understand how other people animate and stuff that I’d be able to add to my animation as I think mine was fairly basic. I’m happy with my final animation though as I thought I was going to struggle a lot with it and not even get it finished so I’m glad that I did.

If I were to start the module again, I would tell myself to try to put myself out there and speak to a lot more people than I did. I would also tell myself to believe that I belong in the class as much as everyone else! I loved this module and honestly wish I could do it all again. I can’t wait to see what else I do in the future and I’m glad I got the opportunity to learn all these skills and take them with me!