For today I have made my third video tutorial, as well as write a plan of tasks I will need to complete by the end of today, including planning my next video tutorial, which will be about UV Mapping (so quite boring, really), and planning for my birthday in the Easter Holidays.
For planning my birthday I wanted to talk to Lynda to see what her thoughts were about things I could do to celebrate my birthday with some of my friends, both in and out of college. She gave me some really good ideas to consider, such as bowling and having lunch in town. For my college friends, so right now I am considering the Foundation Degree Photography students and Ananda, and also some of my friends from the BTEC course, I want to do something fairly local, because I am aware that some of them live outside of Stafford, so something in town would be ideal.
Back to coursework, I feel I am making great progress with these video tutorials, and feel like I am very well on track with it all. Before recording my tutorials, I do what I want to show in my tutorial first, so I'm not making it as I go along, and will make things easier to explain, similar to the Art Attack videos I viewed during my research. After that, I always write a rough script of things I need to cover in each video tutorial. So far this has worked very well for me, but I don't always follow the script, as I like my tutorials to feel like I am speaking more naturally, even if I am hesitant at times with my speaking in the tutorials after watching them back.
Neil has been very supportive with this project and seems genuinely interested and impressed by my work, which I do feel grateful for, and it makes coming to college much easier, and feels a lot more welcoming. He does mention that in my previous tutorials I do tend to go through the tasks in my tutorials a bit too quickly, which I think I can learn from. I do feel, however, especially with my last tutorial that I had a lot to show and to talk through, and even though I don't want to make my tutorials too long, I do feel that they are a lot longer than I expected them to be.
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
26/03/14
Today was the start of a new module! The last module EVER! Yay! In this module, which is known as Taking Stock, we will be reviewing our Reflective Journals, so the journals will be especially important for this module. To be honest this doesn't bother me too much, as I usually keep my journal up to date, and write about the Foundation Degree quite thoroughly. However, some of the other students seem a bit more bothered by this module, as they haven't updated their journals for ages. This made me feel quite relieved, as I won't have as much to catch up on as they will, but at the same time I do feel sorry for them.
We will also need to prepare for the end of year exhibition, as well as plan what we plan to do after the Foundation Degree. I have started and worked hard to figure out what I want to do after the course has ended, but am still fairly unsure. I also have so much to think about right now, such as my birthday, and my Foundation Degree and my current placement ending, which really does scare me.
We will also need to prepare for the end of year exhibition, as well as plan what we plan to do after the Foundation Degree. I have started and worked hard to figure out what I want to do after the course has ended, but am still fairly unsure. I also have so much to think about right now, such as my birthday, and my Foundation Degree and my current placement ending, which really does scare me.
20/03/14
As with last week I had prepared a new video tutorial and planned my day out, so I could plan my next video tutorial. So far these tutorials are quite daunting, but interesting to do, but I am enjoying them. This tutorial took me around 30 minutes to film, which I do feel is a bit long for the video tutorials want to make, but at least I have attempted it.
Today I was planning my next video tutorial, which will be more advanced modelling. For this, I wish to build an original robot character inspired by my research of what I was considering modelling in Maya. To start with, I needed to create some original sketches for robot designs, which was quite fun and rewarding to do. I needed to make sure I drew a front and side view because I plan to model from an image box, as I have found this an especially useful technique for my Maya work, so I feel that teaching this in my next tutorial will work very well. I sketched 5 different robot designs, for Neil to then give feedback. He liked my designs, but felt that I should choose a design that would be simple to model.
This afternoon I started to model what I would build for my next video tutorial. I spent a long time trying to remember what to do to create an image box. I was fine modelling and texturing it, but I couldn't remember how to make the texture appear inside out, so I had to do some extra research, which didn't make too much sense, and also tried to find something in my journal which would help me with this certain problem, but for some reason past me was an idiot and DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN!!!! grrrrrrrrrrggggrrrggg sooo annoying!!! I eventually needed to ask Neil, who mentioned I needed "Backface Culling" selected in the viewport, and then Reverse the Normals by selecting Normals > Reverse. So now for future reference, I now have it written down! I feel that the next tutorial may be more about showing the image box, and how to create more advanced models than actual controls. I didn't finish modelling the character by the end of the day, but the model shouldn't take too long to complete. I have a busy weekend this weekend, but I should still be able to complete this video tutorial for next week.
Today I was planning my next video tutorial, which will be more advanced modelling. For this, I wish to build an original robot character inspired by my research of what I was considering modelling in Maya. To start with, I needed to create some original sketches for robot designs, which was quite fun and rewarding to do. I needed to make sure I drew a front and side view because I plan to model from an image box, as I have found this an especially useful technique for my Maya work, so I feel that teaching this in my next tutorial will work very well. I sketched 5 different robot designs, for Neil to then give feedback. He liked my designs, but felt that I should choose a design that would be simple to model.
This afternoon I started to model what I would build for my next video tutorial. I spent a long time trying to remember what to do to create an image box. I was fine modelling and texturing it, but I couldn't remember how to make the texture appear inside out, so I had to do some extra research, which didn't make too much sense, and also tried to find something in my journal which would help me with this certain problem, but for some reason past me was an idiot and DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN!!!! grrrrrrrrrrggggrrrggg sooo annoying!!! I eventually needed to ask Neil, who mentioned I needed "Backface Culling" selected in the viewport, and then Reverse the Normals by selecting Normals > Reverse. So now for future reference, I now have it written down! I feel that the next tutorial may be more about showing the image box, and how to create more advanced models than actual controls. I didn't finish modelling the character by the end of the day, but the model shouldn't take too long to complete. I have a busy weekend this weekend, but I should still be able to complete this video tutorial for next week.
19/03/14
Today we needed to hand in our work for the Professional and Contextual Studies module. Last night I spent quite a lot of time getting my work prepared for today, and this mostly included finishing my 2000 word project evaluation, so I did feel quite exhausted after last night. However, I did finish everything I needed to do, but last night I forgot to print my journal, which I thought wouldn't take too long at all today at college, so I wasn't too stressed about this.
When I arrived at college today, I noticed that everyone else needed to finish work as well, so this did feel reassuring, but I could tell they were stressed, which isn't good. I would have brought up plans for my birthday, but because everyone was so busy, I didn't feel it was a good time.
Soon after I arrived at college I successfully printed my blog as planned, and seemed to have impressed my classmates with what I have prepared to hand in today. I then decided to leave early, as I had nothing else for this module I needed to do, and I feel I deserved a little break from coursework, as I was working so hard last night.
When I arrived at college today, I noticed that everyone else needed to finish work as well, so this did feel reassuring, but I could tell they were stressed, which isn't good. I would have brought up plans for my birthday, but because everyone was so busy, I didn't feel it was a good time.
Soon after I arrived at college I successfully printed my blog as planned, and seemed to have impressed my classmates with what I have prepared to hand in today. I then decided to leave early, as I had nothing else for this module I needed to do, and I feel I deserved a little break from coursework, as I was working so hard last night.
13/03/14
For today I recorded my first attempt at a video tutorial, and started planning my second video tutorial. To be honest this project has been a bit more time consuming than I thought it would, but I feel that this is fine, because I still have quite a lot of time before the project deadline. Also, I am currently on track with this project, which feels good. I plan to make one video tutorial each week until Easter, and then I plan to edit and improve my video tutorials if necessary.
My second video tutorial will continue from the first, where I started to model a 3D version of the classic Pac Man Level, so my second video tutorial will be basic texturing using solid colours. In this tutorial I will show how to texture the walls of the classic Pac Man Level, and to make things more interesting, model Pac Man and the ghosts as well. Modelling the characters proved more difficult than I thought they would be, even though the characters are really basic shapes. I especially wanted to model the Pac Man ghosts to show the transparency option for textures, where I can make the ghost's textures slightly transparent to give them a more ghostly feel.
Also to help me cope better with Thursdays, because with not much atmosphere in our room Thursdays can feel quite long, I have decided to break down the day into hourly segments, and wrote down the tasks I feel I need to complete for the day. To be honest this has really helped me cope better with Thursdays and helps me feel more motivated and productive and less bored. I will definitely use this strategy in the future, because it has worked so well today.
I also showed Neil the video tutorial I had recorded last weekend. I knew that it wasn't perfect myself, and it could improve in terms of confidence and speaking clearly, but I feel I did well considering it was my first ever video tutorial. Neil did seem rather impressed, but did say I forgot to explain certain controls, and wasn't as technical as I could be. In one part of the tutorial he pointed out I described one of the navigation controls after extruding an object as a "yellow circle thing," which I agree isn't very technical. I also rambled a bit towards the end of the tutorial, and Neil said that mentioning I wasn't a games designer or programmer wasn't necessary. I feel quite pleased with this feedback, and I will consider this when making my next video tutorial. If I have time over the Easter Holidays, I may edit or re-record the video tutorial, but I don't think it was terrible, so I won't be too stressed if I don't have time to edit/redo the video tutorial. If I do decide to edit or redo the video tutorial, I will need to consider which will be the best and quickest option. If I feel I have missed out too much detail, I will need to re record the video tutorial(s), but if I have made mistakes in only one or two sentences, I should probably just edit those parts out of the video tutorial.
Thursday, 13 March 2014
12/03/14
This morning was rather strange, as only myself, Lynda, Neil, Aimee, and eventually Chris were in college today. Ananda was at an interview, Denise was on holiday, Sinead was taking pictures of a rock and I'm not sure why Mike wasn't in today. Also today wasn't too productive, and to be honest I was really tired today, so to be honest I didn't really feel like doing too much today. For a very long time I haven't been sleeping very well recently, which is really frustrating and I really need to find something that will help me sleep better. It's not that I go to bed too late, or I have a problem getting to sleep when I first go to bed, but I really struggle to get back to sleep if I get up in the middle of the night, which can cause a lot of tiredness in the day. Neil also had to sort out something that had happened yesterday with Aimee's college photo shoot, because she was really upset about it.
There wasn't really much of a meeting today, but the online campaign is now active, with Aimee updating the pages daily with our work, and promoting the campaign on her Facebook profile and her Facebook business page. I have also tried to share the online campaign on my Facebook profile, and so far only a few of my friends have liked it. I have also asked my sister and my dad to like and share the page, which they have done, which has gained the page a few more likes. So far we have been able to reach around 100 likes, which is ok, but very far from our target of 300 likes set last week. To be honest, because I don't really have a Facebook business page, I don't really know how many likes the average local page would get in a week, but I would have thought that between the group we could have got 300 people to like the page, as we all have different groups of friends on Facebook. Chris also tried to put posters around college, but didn't get permission to put posters up around college, so they were taken down. To be honest, I haven't seen any posters around college promoting our page, but Wednesdays are the first days in the week I am in college.
All Neil did give us was a guideline for the 2000 word project evaluation we need to do, which was very useful and far less confusing than the module handbook. I had to leave early to go to the dentist, but I was too tired from lack of sleep to do much work, so I watched Toy Story 2, had a quick nap before mum came home, and went to the hairdressers, and it was only in the evening I decided to so something productive and prepare for tomorrow and my art therapy sessions on my work placement.
There wasn't really much of a meeting today, but the online campaign is now active, with Aimee updating the pages daily with our work, and promoting the campaign on her Facebook profile and her Facebook business page. I have also tried to share the online campaign on my Facebook profile, and so far only a few of my friends have liked it. I have also asked my sister and my dad to like and share the page, which they have done, which has gained the page a few more likes. So far we have been able to reach around 100 likes, which is ok, but very far from our target of 300 likes set last week. To be honest, because I don't really have a Facebook business page, I don't really know how many likes the average local page would get in a week, but I would have thought that between the group we could have got 300 people to like the page, as we all have different groups of friends on Facebook. Chris also tried to put posters around college, but didn't get permission to put posters up around college, so they were taken down. To be honest, I haven't seen any posters around college promoting our page, but Wednesdays are the first days in the week I am in college.
All Neil did give us was a guideline for the 2000 word project evaluation we need to do, which was very useful and far less confusing than the module handbook. I had to leave early to go to the dentist, but I was too tired from lack of sleep to do much work, so I watched Toy Story 2, had a quick nap before mum came home, and went to the hairdressers, and it was only in the evening I decided to so something productive and prepare for tomorrow and my art therapy sessions on my work placement.
Monday, 10 March 2014
10/03/14
This weekend I finally got around to making my first ever video tutorial! I felt really nervous making it, and having to talk about and explain everything I was doing in my tutorial, but as I was making the tutorial I soon settled into talking a bit more calmly about the tutorial, despite me making a few mistakes during the tutorial. I may edit these mistakes out of the video, to make it look more professional. I used the Art Attack method where I show the audience how to do one step then jump to the completed step I made earlier, which I feel works really well, as I don't have to waste the viewer's time watching me build something that could take over half an hour, which would be a very long video tutorial, which may result in viewers losing focus after a while. My video tutorial ended up being 20 minutes long, which I feel is very reasonable being my first video tutorial and for it to cover the basics in Maya. I could also make the video shorter by editing it, and I plan to get feedback from Neil and the family.
The online campaign group, "Pixel" also met this weekend as planned. Only myself, Ananda, Aimee and Mike attended the meeting, but I feel it went really well, despite us not having much to discuss for the topic other than the work we wish to post on the group page and the fact that Aimee had not received all the fully copyrighted work and the promotional money yet. Fortunately I have paid my promotional money and Aimee has my work ready for next Sunday. However, I do feel that I had a nice time spending time with these people in a more relaxed environment, and this could be a potential friendship group for me. My birthday is coming up next month, so it may be nice to plan something with these people.
I have also had the best idea ever to celebrate my time at college, which is to have a Graduation Party for me, and I could invite anyone who I feel has made my time at college special. It could also be like a reunion party for some of the people I have in mind as well!
The online campaign group, "Pixel" also met this weekend as planned. Only myself, Ananda, Aimee and Mike attended the meeting, but I feel it went really well, despite us not having much to discuss for the topic other than the work we wish to post on the group page and the fact that Aimee had not received all the fully copyrighted work and the promotional money yet. Fortunately I have paid my promotional money and Aimee has my work ready for next Sunday. However, I do feel that I had a nice time spending time with these people in a more relaxed environment, and this could be a potential friendship group for me. My birthday is coming up next month, so it may be nice to plan something with these people.
I have also had the best idea ever to celebrate my time at college, which is to have a Graduation Party for me, and I could invite anyone who I feel has made my time at college special. It could also be like a reunion party for some of the people I have in mind as well!
6/03/14
Today I continued planning for my final project. I do feel I am a little bit behind with my planning, which is a bit worrying, but I hope I can do a video tutorial this weekend. I was also a bit nervous about today, because Thursdays can feel like very long days and I found yesterday quite stressful, so I didn't really sleep well last night, and my current inability to have a proper night's sleep, even though I try to each night, has been a personal problem for quite a long time now, and has been a lot worse over the past month or so.
However, what I have done is decide what I am going to do for my first video tutorial, which is to start making a 3D version of the classic Pac Man level! I do feel that this is a good idea, and it does show off a lot of the basic controls in Maya, so I am happy with it. However, when I trialed the project yesterday after college, it did take me a while to get used to Maya again, after having a short break from it, and for some strange unknown reason the Undo button wouldn't work! This was the first thing I explained to Neil today, and he also thought my first idea was a good idea, and helped me to fix the Undo button so it works as it should.
I also wanted to catch up with what was discussed in yesterday's meeting and get my work ready for the online exhibition. I don't plan to make anything brand new, but I wanted to change some of the work I have submitted. I plan to submit one of the trading cards I made for the summer exhibition last year, as well as something I did in last weeks lesson for a Facebook post. I also plan to submit a blue version of the dragon I made in Maya in October, as well as a blue version of my sleigh I made in Maya before Christmas. It was really nice to revisit my work, even though I was feeling a little bit nervous about it, because I wasn't too sure how good it really was. However, I do feel that my dragon has to be the best model I have ever done, and looks excellent in blue. All I did was repaint the texture of the dragon to blue instead of red, and made another render of the dragon. I decided to recolour the sleigh in Photoshop, because for the submission of that project I edited the image quite a lot in Photoshop. I actually prefer the sleigh in blue, compared to the red and yellow sleigh I handed in. Also, I decided to change the character in the sleigh from Mario to Sonic, because my chosen colour for the exhibition is blue. This was a little bit awkward as the image I found of Sonic wasn't at the correct angle to what I wanted, and I messed up the layers in Photoshop, meaning Sonic was on the same layer as the background layer, so I couldn't edit Sonic exactly the way I wanted to.
Also, to prepare myself for the video tutorial, I decided to write a script of instructions I will cover in my first video tutorial to help me with what I am going to talk about. Neil did suggest that when I'm ready to make my video tutorials I find the music department at college and ask one of the music lecturers if I could use one of the sound booths. To be honest I didn't get around to doing this, but I am glad I know this if I need to make a video tutorial at college in the next few weeks.
However, what I have done is decide what I am going to do for my first video tutorial, which is to start making a 3D version of the classic Pac Man level! I do feel that this is a good idea, and it does show off a lot of the basic controls in Maya, so I am happy with it. However, when I trialed the project yesterday after college, it did take me a while to get used to Maya again, after having a short break from it, and for some strange unknown reason the Undo button wouldn't work! This was the first thing I explained to Neil today, and he also thought my first idea was a good idea, and helped me to fix the Undo button so it works as it should.
I also wanted to catch up with what was discussed in yesterday's meeting and get my work ready for the online exhibition. I don't plan to make anything brand new, but I wanted to change some of the work I have submitted. I plan to submit one of the trading cards I made for the summer exhibition last year, as well as something I did in last weeks lesson for a Facebook post. I also plan to submit a blue version of the dragon I made in Maya in October, as well as a blue version of my sleigh I made in Maya before Christmas. It was really nice to revisit my work, even though I was feeling a little bit nervous about it, because I wasn't too sure how good it really was. However, I do feel that my dragon has to be the best model I have ever done, and looks excellent in blue. All I did was repaint the texture of the dragon to blue instead of red, and made another render of the dragon. I decided to recolour the sleigh in Photoshop, because for the submission of that project I edited the image quite a lot in Photoshop. I actually prefer the sleigh in blue, compared to the red and yellow sleigh I handed in. Also, I decided to change the character in the sleigh from Mario to Sonic, because my chosen colour for the exhibition is blue. This was a little bit awkward as the image I found of Sonic wasn't at the correct angle to what I wanted, and I messed up the layers in Photoshop, meaning Sonic was on the same layer as the background layer, so I couldn't edit Sonic exactly the way I wanted to.
Also, to prepare myself for the video tutorial, I decided to write a script of instructions I will cover in my first video tutorial to help me with what I am going to talk about. Neil did suggest that when I'm ready to make my video tutorials I find the music department at college and ask one of the music lecturers if I could use one of the sound booths. To be honest I didn't get around to doing this, but I am glad I know this if I need to make a video tutorial at college in the next few weeks.
Saturday, 8 March 2014
P&CS 5/03/14
Today we were continuing on the group's online campaign project, to promote our work on social media. For today's session I completed a drawing for the group pages, which was a drawing of everybody in the group wearing their chosen colours for the work we will be posting on the social media. I did really enjoy drawing it, and also made me rediscover colouring my drawings, which I feel really bring the drawings to life. I do feel that the drawing wasn't perfect, and I probably used my fine liner a bit too much, and I did notice that my fine liner was a bit too thick and inky, so I may need to get another one. It was also really good practice for my art therapy sessions I provide on my work placement on Tuesdays.
However, the first half of this morning was pretty stressful. Firstly, I thought I was designing the cover photo, and Ananda was designing the logo, but his logo was the size of a Facebook cover photo, which was really worrying me, because I didn't want to have done my drawing for the group to not use it!
I also needed copies of my drawing to hand to each member of the group, which I didn't mind doing, but this made me realise the scanners at college weren't very good, and the copies didn't print properly, and I did need copies for the meeting in the second half of the morning. Thankfully Neil was really helpful and offered to help me to print the copies by printing them off from his computer area, which I was really grateful for. I do feel that Neil and I do get on much better now compared to last year, which again I am really grateful for. However, I was clearly stressed and didn't really feel like talking and one of the other members of the group wouldn't really stop talking to me, which to be honest stressed me out even more, even though I know he meant well. I did however tell him to leave me alone, as calmly as I could.
Eventually my scans were printed, but the prints weren't very good. However, this is just to show everyone what I have done for this project so far. It was now time for the meeting, which even though I was still feeling anxious, I feel went fairly well, even though I felt I didn't really say as much as everybody else. I suppose I am quite a quiet person, but I have learned to be ok with this, as this doesn't mean I am a boring person.
The meeting today was about getting the online campaign started, which will start on Monday and run for 7 days. We also needed to agree on what work everybody was going to submit for the online campaign, and if any work anybody has done so far needs to be changed. Thankfully I was right in thinking that my drawing was going to be used as a cover photo, and everybody seemed to really like my drawing, but I think that everybody wants individual drawings of each person. This will be easy, as I can just crop the existing drawing into seven individual drawings. Also, I will need to get the work I will submit for this online campaign ready for Friday. My work isn't ready yet, but I have a clear idea of what it is I wish to submit, and it shouldn't take too long to edit to make each piece focus on my chosen colour, which unsurprisingly is blue.
Also, Neil did bring up that we should be meeting outside of college, something which we weren't aware of before, but shouldn't be a problem. So the group had to decide on a date, time and place for the next meeting. Because Sunday at 11am works best for most of us, we decided the next meeting will be then. We just needed to decide on a place. I suggested somewhere in town, because it is somewhere we all know, and we can meet at a cafe or something. We eventually decided to meet in the town square, despite Ananda suggesting to meet at the University, but I don't think the photography students go there much at all. I think meeting outside of college is a great idea, as it gives me another social option and it will be a lot more casual, and we could have breakfast or a morning coffee somewhere!
One thing that does bother me about Ananda is that he constantly interrupts and talks over people, especially me, and this is one thing I find incredibly frustrating and frankly rude. This did happen at some times during today's meeting, and this can make it hard for me to form a true friendship with him. We don't really have much in common either, and we only really talk to each other about work, so I guess we are more colleagues/acquaintances than friends. I suppose this is ok, as you can't really change people, but it can make Thursdays quite difficult.
However, the first half of this morning was pretty stressful. Firstly, I thought I was designing the cover photo, and Ananda was designing the logo, but his logo was the size of a Facebook cover photo, which was really worrying me, because I didn't want to have done my drawing for the group to not use it!
I also needed copies of my drawing to hand to each member of the group, which I didn't mind doing, but this made me realise the scanners at college weren't very good, and the copies didn't print properly, and I did need copies for the meeting in the second half of the morning. Thankfully Neil was really helpful and offered to help me to print the copies by printing them off from his computer area, which I was really grateful for. I do feel that Neil and I do get on much better now compared to last year, which again I am really grateful for. However, I was clearly stressed and didn't really feel like talking and one of the other members of the group wouldn't really stop talking to me, which to be honest stressed me out even more, even though I know he meant well. I did however tell him to leave me alone, as calmly as I could.
Eventually my scans were printed, but the prints weren't very good. However, this is just to show everyone what I have done for this project so far. It was now time for the meeting, which even though I was still feeling anxious, I feel went fairly well, even though I felt I didn't really say as much as everybody else. I suppose I am quite a quiet person, but I have learned to be ok with this, as this doesn't mean I am a boring person.
The meeting today was about getting the online campaign started, which will start on Monday and run for 7 days. We also needed to agree on what work everybody was going to submit for the online campaign, and if any work anybody has done so far needs to be changed. Thankfully I was right in thinking that my drawing was going to be used as a cover photo, and everybody seemed to really like my drawing, but I think that everybody wants individual drawings of each person. This will be easy, as I can just crop the existing drawing into seven individual drawings. Also, I will need to get the work I will submit for this online campaign ready for Friday. My work isn't ready yet, but I have a clear idea of what it is I wish to submit, and it shouldn't take too long to edit to make each piece focus on my chosen colour, which unsurprisingly is blue.
Also, Neil did bring up that we should be meeting outside of college, something which we weren't aware of before, but shouldn't be a problem. So the group had to decide on a date, time and place for the next meeting. Because Sunday at 11am works best for most of us, we decided the next meeting will be then. We just needed to decide on a place. I suggested somewhere in town, because it is somewhere we all know, and we can meet at a cafe or something. We eventually decided to meet in the town square, despite Ananda suggesting to meet at the University, but I don't think the photography students go there much at all. I think meeting outside of college is a great idea, as it gives me another social option and it will be a lot more casual, and we could have breakfast or a morning coffee somewhere!
One thing that does bother me about Ananda is that he constantly interrupts and talks over people, especially me, and this is one thing I find incredibly frustrating and frankly rude. This did happen at some times during today's meeting, and this can make it hard for me to form a true friendship with him. We don't really have much in common either, and we only really talk to each other about work, so I guess we are more colleagues/acquaintances than friends. I suppose this is ok, as you can't really change people, but it can make Thursdays quite difficult.
Monday, 3 March 2014
27/02/14
Even though it was our first Specialist Pathway lesson since half term, it was quite a quiet day, where everyone carried on with their individual projects. Also, college itself was a bit quiet, as only Higher Education courses were in today (so that includes me).
I also thought about the work I was doing yesterday (the group project, as well as what I was doing in the lesson, Pokemon digital drawing for Facebook that was set by a couple of my Facebook friends) and I was thinking, because the Pokemon I had drawn was blue, I could use that in the online campaign!
I feel that today's most important time was when Ananda and I presented our work so far this morning. This was worrying me, because up to this point I have only done research and am unsure if it is really finished. Ananda presented his work first, and I do think he has struggled with this slightly. Clearly he has done research, and was able to talk a lot about his findings and his project, but I'm not sure whether he has recorded much of it, and also didn't seem to consider much about how his project will help his work. He has done a few quick sketches of his designs, which is something I haven't done yet, but still needs lots of development work. I did feel that Neil was being quite tough on him, but I could understand what Neil was asking of him.
I suppose I had quite an advantage not presenting my work first because I could then think about how I was going to present my work and what I was going to say about it. To my surprise my presentation went very well, and Neil was very pleased with the work I had done so far. I did get some constructive feedback, to structure my work more and to actually decide what I will base my tutorial on, all things I definitely feel will be achievable in the near future. Neil also said to look at more existing 3D models of cartoon characters such as Spongebob, and to also compare notes from watching To Infinity and Beyond! which is something I watched last year.
After the presentations we just carried on with our work. Because I feel more pressure from the group project, I decided to catch up with work from yesterday. I have also started my Cover Photo drawing of myself and my classmates, and so far it is going well. I just need to consider what poses I can draw each person in to capture their personalities the best way I can.
I also thought about the work I was doing yesterday (the group project, as well as what I was doing in the lesson, Pokemon digital drawing for Facebook that was set by a couple of my Facebook friends) and I was thinking, because the Pokemon I had drawn was blue, I could use that in the online campaign!
I feel that today's most important time was when Ananda and I presented our work so far this morning. This was worrying me, because up to this point I have only done research and am unsure if it is really finished. Ananda presented his work first, and I do think he has struggled with this slightly. Clearly he has done research, and was able to talk a lot about his findings and his project, but I'm not sure whether he has recorded much of it, and also didn't seem to consider much about how his project will help his work. He has done a few quick sketches of his designs, which is something I haven't done yet, but still needs lots of development work. I did feel that Neil was being quite tough on him, but I could understand what Neil was asking of him.
I suppose I had quite an advantage not presenting my work first because I could then think about how I was going to present my work and what I was going to say about it. To my surprise my presentation went very well, and Neil was very pleased with the work I had done so far. I did get some constructive feedback, to structure my work more and to actually decide what I will base my tutorial on, all things I definitely feel will be achievable in the near future. Neil also said to look at more existing 3D models of cartoon characters such as Spongebob, and to also compare notes from watching To Infinity and Beyond! which is something I watched last year.
After the presentations we just carried on with our work. Because I feel more pressure from the group project, I decided to catch up with work from yesterday. I have also started my Cover Photo drawing of myself and my classmates, and so far it is going well. I just need to consider what poses I can draw each person in to capture their personalities the best way I can.
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