Personal Development in Specialist Pathway 30/01/14

For today, I had to construct a detailed timeline of my plan for my final project, which did help me to see what tasks I will have to do, and also what exactly I need to research. This was added to my project proposal, which I handed in this morning.

This morning I also started to watch one of the DVDs I lent from the University library last week, but I didn't realise until this morning that I actually lent out a seminar about rigging characters in Maya, instead of a tutorial, so the DVD was around 100 minutes long. However, it was interesting to hear that Neil had actually watched that DVD, saying that it teaches a new way of rigging, called the Component Editor, which I may look further into. Although the seminar was informative and detailed, I  don't think it was exactly what I was looking for, as the seminar discussed more about the coding and programming, rather than the creative side of Maya that I'm interested in, and what I will be discussing in my video tutorials. However, I did find some useful ideas in the seminar which I could present in my video tutorials, in the way that the speaker of the seminar was explaining all the things in a friendly way.

Neil did seem pleased with how my timeline was structured, saying I have left some good time to gather research and ideas. He also advised me to watch at least one video tutorial a day, which seems very reasonable.

It was then all written work this afternoon, reflecting on the week that has just gone. Although it helps to break the silence for me, I do like listening to music while doing practical work, but I feel it can sometimes distract me when doing written work. However, at times I can listen to music while doing written work, but I need to block the music out somehow, which can sometimes be hard to do.