Crit week feedback

So... crit week went well, my group has all made a lot of progress since pitch week, and mostly everyone in the group, including myself, now feel a lot easier giving feedback to other group members.

The thing I liked about the pitch and crit experience this year, is the fact that the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years all look to you, hoping to get as much feedback as possible.(apart from one person, who was either unconfident of showing work, or just didn't have the work to show, (I did try to give him a pep talk...) It is very comforting to know that you can give them advise, and them be greatly apreciative of it.

This has made up my mind, that I do enjoy helping people, and some point in the future would like to take up teaching 3D modeling techniques, and storytelling techniques to college or uni students.

As far a this years pitch and crit sessions go, they have all been great for feedback, and critical evauation. I have had four good presentations which evoked discussion, which was always a good sign. I still get so stressed out over them, even though I am very passionate about my project, and know what I'm suppose to be saying. However, I manage to pull it off in the end, and this weeks crit presentation was no exeption.

The tutors like my research question, they think I'm looking into a lot of structured and relevent research, and one guy thought I did an overall good presentation, and he didn't have any clue what my project was about, so that was good. (I just wish I had caught his name :( ) He has however gave me his email address, so he can get me a contact who tackled bullying advertisement last year, and is now working in the industry doing this sort of thing, so will be interested to get in touch with this guy.

The last bit of feedback I got, was to make sure that I have left enough time for animation, which I think I have. I happened to mention about my backup plan of making a mini showreel with the development, facial models etc. I think John really wants me to make sure I try and get the animation finished instead, rather than mentioning any back up plan at this stage, which is fine. I let him know, that I have every intension of finishing the animation. I just wanted to point out that I do have a back up plan in hand in case anything drastic goes wrong.

So now that I have the presentations out the way, I can concentrate on the project fully, and get ready for the end of year presentation in may... eeeeeeeek! :)