So far the course has been very good experience. I’m still trying to get to grips with the 3D side of things but we’ve covered quite a lot of the basic skills now so it’s all coming together. It’s not as hard as I thought it might have been, but once you take the time to learn all the tools and techniques etc it starts to get easier. Some of the projects we’ve done so far have been quite challenging and it doesn’t help when Heather goes through what we’re doing each week like lighting, but at least what we are doing is on blackboard as well.
In visual design we’ve been all over Leicester so far sketching anything and everything. From the Canal to the archway, Bradgate Park and the National Space Centre. It’s been quite an adventure so far although I just wish that I had known from the start of how hard this part of the course was. We’ve been asked to do 12 sketches each week (or near enough 12) yet even though I’ve done all of it and uploaded it all to FaceBook it’s still not enough...
We were told in week 10 that what we’ve done is only adequate and for quite a lot of others inadequate which is worrying. No point of worrying about what others are doing though, it’s my own work I’ve got to be worried about, I think only a few people got a good, which shows how hard it is, but I just really wish that we could of been told that doing the minimum requirement amount of work isn’t good enough then I would of made sure I’d of done more. I honestly miss playing my games consoles; you literally have no time for it what so ever anymore, even now at Christmas I haven’t had as much time as I thought I’d have to play them, it really hasn’t been a holiday having to re-do all the work I’ve done already, at least I got most of it done before the holiday however. We were told that 1 credit is equivalent to 10 hours of work and we need 45 credits, that’s easily do-able by the end of the year but I’d still wish I’d have known that 180 hours had to be handed in by the time we get back after Christmas, I just thought we had to complete the tasks. At least we’ve got a idea for how hard it is though...
With the blogs, I find it to be the best part of course, simply because you can just rant about what you think of something no matter what it is. The blog I think is there to show our understanding of games, because there isn’t much more than 2D and 3D to teach when you’re studying a gaming course, but once I get going on a task I can’t really stop, I have write down everything I’m thinking of about the task at hand. You get you chance to have your own say in it but its work at the same time which makes it the best part of the course.
It’s been really enjoyable so far but for the next 13 weeks ahead I’m going to have to be up for doing double if not triple the amount of work, from now on I’m not getting distracted and sticking to it, no matter how much I miss my Xbox.
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