My Reflection: e-Communication

What I learned:

I learned how to create real life objects in Maya and make them come to life. I also learned how many drawings on my sketchpad could be scanned onto the computer to be animated in our Robot and Story project. I became more social with people that I normally would not talk to. I learned special effects to make my projects become even more epic and fantastical in feeling. I learned how even though I may think I have a ridiculous idea, it may perfect to others.

How I learned:

I learned these techniques through several different ways. I learned most of the basic stuff, such as the fundamentals of After Effects and Maya through our teacher. However, as we went into more of the special effects, my way of learning was through YouTube videos, especially for our final project, and Video Copilot for the two explosions we did. We learned about some of the smaller projects we had through PDFs that were posted on Google Classroom.

Importance:

         I think the importance of these techniques will come in handy when I am looking for a job. These projects really gave me a feel of the basic skills needed to work in this field. It was important to know these techniques, so in the future when they are expected, I will be able to perform well to my coworkers and managers.

 Strengths/improvements:

My biggest strengths for this class, I think are my collaboration skills and my technical skills, as I am very good with communicating my ideas to my classmates, and giving my input on things that have been done well, or if something needs improvement. With that, my technical skills are pretty good. I have a good grasp on how to work the software that was used several times this year. I tend to figure out new software pretty fast, and I try to help others using this skill.

However, my biggest weakness this year was project management. I had difficulty turning in all my projects on time, and making sure they had all the required elements needed. Along with my projects, I had trouble remembering all my blogs that needed to be posted by the end of the year. I have improved that by not just letting the project that needs to be done just sit there; I would try to finish it when I had time.

Future Changes:

            I would change how much effort I put into my projects. I felt that I didn’t try hard enough with my work, and it really hurt my ethic and made me feel lazy. I want to become more efficient in this field of work, and help others with my knowledge of these skills that I possess.

Conclusion: 

           I felt that this year, although fun and interesting, was kind of stressful. To balancing projects and blogs with other schoolwork was a little too much for me. I didn’t see the point for the separate blogs, unrelated to our projects.