Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Year Two, semester one

Task13: Reflection on year one, and ambition for year two

I have finally completed the first year it was a hectic year but I leant a lot of
important aspects, ranging from; overcoming my weaknesses and gaining new found
talents. It almost feels like I levelled up. “Your new abilities are the use of
efficiently unwrapping textures in 3d max and a better understanding of colour
theory” lol. Those are the things that I feel like I now have better
understanding of.

Thereare still a few things I need to work on especially my Photoshop skills. I
would like to develop these skills during the second year. I do feel a lot more
confident using Photoshop however there are still issues I need to figure out.
One way I would like to overcome these issues are by watching as many tutorials
as I can. One artist I have been told about is Feng Zhu who specialises in
concept art drawing, great guy to learn the basic and advanced Photoshop
techniques. Here is the link to his YouTube page;
http://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL

I know now how hard I need to work in the second year compared to the previous year.
During the first year I literally worked my ass off, I did not have much free
time I was always behind in work trying to catch up with previous work (it was
like a game of tag). However when I actually finished the year and it was time
for the final assessment I was pretty confident that I would get a decent mark,
but I was disappointed. I got marks that were below what I was expecting.
Then it occurred to me that I worked so much that I gave my free time to do more
work, but it still was not enough. So when the letter came to my house saying
that I passed I was happy but then I thought I need to work so much harder than
last year. If I do get any free time in the second year I would not waste my time
by playing video games or even watching TV, I will try to learn new things to
make my life easier within the course. This is my target.

I realised after the result it’s not about how much work you do it’s about the
quality that goes in to all your work. That is something I need to bring in to
the second year.

BRING IT ON YEAR 2 !!!!

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