Team work was a new and often challenging experience for me within this module. The constant reviewing, feedback sessions, ideation meetings, clashing opinions and rare unmotivated team members proved to create projects that were at times, difficult to work in. Personally, most of the people working alongside me were often supportive, helpful and most importantly hardworking, which made the whole process of growing ideas and concepts that little bit easier.
My confidence levels grew in a huge way during this module as work was created in our teams and then presented to the class. This module encouraged us as individuals to step out of our comfort zones and start to experiment using new mediums, new software and new techniques to achieve team objectives.
At times, staying in my comfort zone was the best policy. Using software and programs that were individually knowledgeable to me, such as MS Paint and Movie Maker. This helped me create unique, helpful and important pieces of work, such as animatics, that allowed team ideas to be tied together quicker and more informatively for presentations and team meetings.
Creating concepts and ideas each week was my favourite area of this module. The process of taking a sketch, doodle, shape or draft and forming it into a growing project and team effort was always a thrill and exciting experience.
The talks and lectures we sat under each week were both interesting and informative and gave us both personal and team based skills and information that we could use to grow our individual abilities and skills but also our team projects.
Personally, my favourite project to work on was the Hell World title sequence. My team for that week was both fun and hardworking. We gelled together and created an awesome piece of work and had fun doing it which is what team work is all about.
After completing one class a week for my foundation year last year, life drawing was already a familiar art form for me. As it did in the past, it proved to be a difficult and tiresome process but one that was worth the effort and frustration. The chance to sit and listen to various techniques and methods of simplifying the human body was a great opportunity and allowed us as student develops our skills of drawing in various mediums and styles.
My toughest week within the Creative Elements module was the colour week on Marble World. My team proved to be confused and lacked motivation to work and communicate as a unit. This produced a group of individual workers each working towards separate objectives. This made our final presentation both embarrassing and frustrating. With some leadership and support to one another, we were soon back on track for the animatic week and we were able to bring together all of our individual ideas and skills, implement them together and produce a sustainable and well-constructed piece of work. This was a tough journey for myself and forced me to experience more stress and worry than expected. Once back on track, my overall feelings and passion for the team and the project returned and allowed me to press on, motivating and pushing my team forward.
Overall, this module proved to be a huge learning curve for me and allowed me to experiment, grow, develop and push myself to new levels. The build a world module was a great way of joining together strangers, and allowing them to experience a rollercoaster of various challenges and come out of it as good friends and far more informed and mature in the processes of animation.
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