Wednesday, 13 March 2013

13/3/13 - Presentation Review, Life drawing

There are a lot of threes in today's date. Not exactly a useful comment but i wanted to type it.

Today i had the last progress presentation and because i went last out of everyone last time i thought it was only right to go first. I'd already set up prezi which took away my fear of holding everyone up while I logged in (yes that is a thing, kayleigh gets it to), i was comfortable with everyone in the room and i knew what i was saying even with fairly minimal practise. I guess it was the fact i knew what i'd done and it was mainly fairly fresh which helped with that part. I would probably say that this presentation went the smoothest out of all of them, i wasn't nervous and i don't think i sped through it so minor victory for me there. As for feedback i asked Judy and Ceren if they would mind writing it down for me, as i always feel rude writing when im being spoken to, and so here is what they wrote down for me....

  • The overall vibe is to keep going with what i'm doing
Its always encouraging to know your going in roughly the right direction. I just hope i get there in time.
  • Production schedule
It might be worth me making a production schedule but i am a little reluctant to. I get the feel it would stress me out and actually lower my productivity. I feel pretty happy with how hard i'm working and in the last couple of weeks stepped up my game to compensate for being a little worried myself about time.
  • Whats my final thing going to be?
This was more of something i needed to catch Lynn up with. She wasn't there for my last presentation and I'm pretty sure i mentioned it then. This question has spurred me on to asking the programmer whose helping me when he'd be able to do it. Earlier the better so it doesn't get in the way of his own work. I'll be meeting him tomorrow sometime to discuss it.
  • The 3D stuff i've done can be included in personal development as long as i can show measurable progress.
This is nice to know as i thought it wouldn't count.


Other than this there were a few things they mentioned about actually how to go about presenting.

  • Tie everything i do back in with the theory i've researched.
Good point. I've been focusing on progress for these presentations but the final presentation will need a change in how i approach it. I might start making it soon.
  • Don't need to include personal development
I wasn't expecting to show my personal development in my final presentation but i'd gotten into the habit of putting them into my progress ones.

I'm looking forward to the email with advise on what to include in the final presentation so i can start putting it together.

Other
While listening to other peoples presentations it brought up a few issues of my own i want to sort out.

Practise hand animation.. it looks hard.
Same with faces

Ask how difficult it is to merge the motion capture with the rig so i can animate faces and hands

Talk to Robin about case studies.. i dont think i've done any really yet..




LIFE DRAWING
Two whole weeks of life drawing coming at you because i forgot to upload last week. The ones on reddish sugar paper are from last week and the rest are this weeks batch.


Legs a little too long in this one but other than that i'm happy. Standing up poses are hard.

I was a little tired so i did something odd with random shapes. It looks alright though so not such a bad thing.

I just couldn't get the perspective right with this one.

weight looks a little off in these




I made him into a pirate because i accidentally blocked out one of the eyes and it looked like an eye patch...weight is wrong in this one too...


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