Last day

Nothing much to be said, no excuses. We weren't able to complete our animation, and honestly, I'm not exactly proud of the outcome.

I feel I really lack discipline and time management. Negativity aside, this module has taught me a lot about what it takes to be an animator, and more importantly, a designer. I now have a much better idea of what to expect when doing animation, like how to plan my time well, little mistakes to avoid, and tricks that can be applied to improve and speed up animation. One thing I can say is that there is a lot of planning to be done before anything is executed. I think this can be applied to anything we do. Proper planning instead of rushing into things can save us precious time that would have been used to correct mistakes had we not planned in the first place.

One question that was raised during presentation today, "If I could do this project all over again, what would I change?" I gave this question some thought, though I didn't actually give an answer on the spot. I think I would have actually heed Amanda's advice and went back to traditional animation. There is truth in the fact that there is much more control given to the animator when animating traditionally, not to mention being able to avoid computer crashes and file corruptions.

Well, that's it for Animation 02, I'll do better for P3.