Through out the 1st
year on this course I find I have been constantly struggling to find out how I
can specifically improve on different areas. Although I know we feedback
sheets, which are barely readable, but they do provide us with information to
help with our development, however I would love to suggest an increase in the
amount of time we actually get with a lecturer. I feel that even though I have
been here a year I haven’t spoke to any of the teachers for longer than a
minute, obviously I understand that there are 60 students which all cry
attention or maybe I’m being stupid and I’m used to the usual college teachers
that nag on at you to get on with work.
Looking at the current state of the industry
and game development I can only agree with the structure of the course no
matter how intense it is I think its only preparing you for what’s actually
expected at industry standard. The drawing, writing and 3d work is only
increasing your chances of landing a job at the end. In a way I wish I could
just learn the beast of 3ds max and solely find a job in doing so but I believe
everything is just as important, developing drawing skills will make your
models look realistic and believable. I do love working on 3ds Max and
sometimes annoying as it is, when I can see the finish line I find it quite
therapeutic.
Looking at my own feedback sheets I am
struggling with visual design, I have not passed one formative assessment yet
and I am worried that what I have done won’t be enough. Practice is the only
thing that helps in this course but you should always be able to see yourself
improving, which I think I can.
A very important issue, which I know a lot of
people, feel the same about is the labs not being open later. At the beginning
of year this was a real issue for me as my unfortunately my laptop wasn’t
powerful enough to run a lot of the programmes we needed to use. Now this would
mean I could only use the lab computers but there not open on weekends so
realistically I only have 2 days to use them. I know everyone would much
appreciate the labs being open later especially 3rd years.
Not sure if this will be a useful suggestion
but I have wanted to look at a very successful piece of 3rd years
work in detail. I would like to see how they actually got to this idea and the
process they went through to develop the work into a decent project. I think
more of this would give 1st years a better insight of how to
approach their work and develop their own ideas. I know there is pictures of
work posted up around but none of the initial ideas are, just a thought.
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