Working on my own for this year-long project has been an interesting experience. I wanted to work on my own because I had ambitious ideas on what I want to achieve this year. This gave me a lot of trouble and a lot confidence in some areas.
I had a lot of highs and lows throughout the work process. I was excited because I get to be creative, and I get to explore different avenues that weren’t open to me due to a lack of time, and because of that I learned new skills in various aspects of the pipeline. I tackled a lot of problems, and surprised myself by overcoming them with my results.
But at the same time , it was challenging to get the work to its current state. A lot of problems I faced usually couldn’t be answered by others, and it was up to me to explore and resolve it on my own. I now have respect for the people who specialise in the different skills and in different aspects of the pipeline. The workload was very difficult for me because I wanted to do things right, because I wanted to complete the work to the best of my abilities, because there is always room for improvement.
Looking back on the work, my ambition did me more harm than good as it proved detrimental to my time management skills. I would delay and not compromise on areas where I really should have at the time, opting to put in more effort to compensate. But hard effort cannot always compensate for talent and creativity.
I managed to complete the work to its current state, and I am proud of myself for my efforts thus far, despite its unfinished status. I have put in a lot of effort. The most enjoyable part of this year was how I improved myself as both an animator and an artist, considering how the work is purely in 2D animation, and I only started 2D animation this year.
In the future, I plan to still work on this project as I want to complete for the sake of myself, to realise the creative vision that I had just finalised at the end of my time here in uni.
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