End Of Year Reflection - Animation

Technology

Through the course of this short year i learned many things in animation such as special effects, green screening and 3d modeling. The class learned these things through the use of the VERY helpful google docs files given to us by Mr. especially. These skills, especially  green screening could be potentially very useful to me in the following years if i do not like the background of a image with green screening i could change that. Along the way i faced many challenges however the greatest challenge i faced was issues with matte-ing in after effects for special effects. Each project would take a week to complete but i always felt that i could do something more if i just had the time ( i felt rushed).

Collaboration

Through the course of this year i learned a fairly large amount of collaboration. Mostly through helping my neighbors with things and my neighbors helping me back with other things. This is important because it can allow me to gain more information through others. Along the way i faced many challenges. However the most prominent for the collaboration guarantee was by far my introversion. But i feel like i am gradually getting better at this since when i joined e-comm. 

Communication

Through the year i learned some communication but this was fairly limited due to the small amount of group projects that we did. However communication is important for many things in life and not just e-comm. Again i faced the same problems with this guarantee just as with collaboration, My introversion leads me to not want to interact with other people. I feel i am also gradually getting better at communication since i have joined e-comm. On the final VFX project with my group i thought i did a good job of communicating that i did not like how i was the only actor and what they did with the bloopers clips at the end but apparently i did not say how much i did not like it because it remained that way.

Project Management

Throughout the year i have learned how to manage my time very effectively due to the large amount of total projects we had. Project management is important because without it projects would never get done. Surprisingly i did not face many challenges Project Management wise, due to me getting all of my projects in by the due date. I used to not be very good with time management in general but since i have joined e-comm it has improved quite drastically 

Leadership

Leadership is where i fall short this year. For the few group projects we did i did not take a very large leadership role in them, again due to my introversion. However leadership skills are very important because there always needs to be a leader. 

I feel like my strengths that have emerged this year in animation were the 2d animation. I found that to be the most fun of this entire year, However it may not be as practical as other skills. My skills in time and project management have drastically improved since joining e-comm. However i still need to work on communication with my peers and my leadership skills.

I am going to take what i have learned and hopefully apply it to the next 2 years of Web Design that i will be taking. If i could change anything i think i would like to have found more interest in animation. When i came in to e-comm as a freshman i instantly thought that i wanted to do animation. However after going through exploring animation as a sophomore i realized that it was not for me so i decided to focus on web design.

In conclusion animation has been a great experience to help improve my skills in all of the guarantees of e-comm