Final reflection

I think that in the first semester I really enjoyed this brief and was very excited to do work for it. However, because I was excited to do the work, I think that as a group we created way too much work, which looked good at the time of presenting, but it meant that we did not have a lot left to do this semester, and everything we did do had to be really good as to make it look like we have done lots more this semester. 

I think that I learnt a lot this project, such as how to use character animate, and I really improved my drawing skills. I also learnt a lot about the physic of men and how to draw bodies more realistic, whereas I usually draw only faces. Another thing that I improved upon was writing stories, I have done basic stories in the past, in the first year I created an interactive storybook that I wrote. However, I have never written a story like this before, especially with the language differences between the 1800s and now. I think that I have created lots of things that will look really good within my portfolio in this project. 

I found that it was very difficult to get any work done though with the pandemic. It was incredibly difficult to focus on the work I had to do for the projects with everything going on, this meant that I had to cut some bits out of my project, such as changing the character animate file. Also as soon as Juan said that it’s not really a group project it was like my whole group fell apart, we were all still working together well and had meetings every week to talk about the project, but it all fell apart as soon as Glenn said that he was done, this really made all my motivation for this project disappear, which made it incredibly difficult to do anymore work.

Overall, I really liked this project in the first semester, and think that I learnt a lot of new skills as well as improving upon existing ones. However, I feel that the second semester was not as productive as the first, and with the pandemic it became very difficult to do any and all work, especially with the breakdown of the group.