Reflective writing 01

                    For the first week of this module I wasn't able to make it into the lectures, so I missed out on the part where we formed teams for our animation assignment. Thankfully this week I was able to join a preexisting team that had someone who was interested in animation much like myself, which is good to know that there will definitely be someone else who is hopefully equally as enthusiastic about it as I am.

After talking with them and getting caught up with their plans and tasks they set themselves we started looking at the storyboard they had created. It had a lot of narrative, which is good, however for the module there were a certain number of things we had to do in order to gain marks for grades. With that in mind we decided to simplify what they had previously wanted to do so that it coordinates with what is expected of us in order to complete this module. We decided that the narrative of the animations should be in place after we had created the animations themselves. We assigned a character for each of us, mine being a mage-like character, and decided on what type of animations we would create for each of them.  The brief said we are to create 4 animations each so i chose to do running, casting a spell, stumble (as in hit by an enemy) and an idle/breathe animation. The idle/breathe animation i think is required by the module regardless of what else we are wanting to do and so i am not sure if it is 4 animations plus an idle/breathe or if we actually count that as 1 of the 4 already - it is something I will have to bring up next time we meet.

Accepting me as a fourth team member could have caused a bit of havoc with their plans, but thankfully it seemed as if the team needed to change their plans in order for it to adhere to the module handbook anyway, so joining them wasn't too much of a burden. I look forward to working with them, as we all seem to have good ideas and aim for gaining extra credit by including digital effects using After Effects and applying narrative to the animations which aren't necessary but will improve quality and hopefully overall grades.