Leadership
One valuable take away from this year in the leadership guarantee is learning how to work with difficult people when in a leadership role of a group. While working on the final project I was the main one in my group telling people which parts they needed to get done and planing what we would do an when. Some people in my group were difficult to work with and I knew that I couldn't assign them as much because it wouldn't get done. these people also made getting filming and adding our special effects more difficult but it helped me learn how to be patient and how to assign work as a leader. We needed up finishing our project and even though there were difficulties the overall learning experience was worth it.
Technical Skills
One valuable thing I have learned in the technical guarantee is learning how to use Maya. Last year for 3D modeling we used Google Sketch Up which is very different from Maya, which we used this year. Learning how to use Maya was a fun part of the class and it was cool to see how many different things you can do with the program and being able to make something from nothing is also vey cool to see. There were many struggles while learning Maya because the program can be very confusing and may start acting up for weird reasons so it was very frustrating. I had to learn it takes patience and also good organization but sometimes the program still would act up. This program was great to learn and the 3D modeling was one of my favorite parts of the year.
Communication
One valuable thing I have learned in the communication guarantee is learning how to ask good questions and explain a situation. Because we had to learn two completely new programs in this class and had to learn a lot of new things in the programs there were lots of difficulties and sings could go wrong very easily. I had to learn how to ask my partners or teacher for help but knowing how to ask and phrase a question is important to getting the answer you need. Being able to clearly communicate the problem and ask a question phrased in the right way will save a lot of time in finding a solution.
Project Management
One valuable thing I have learned in the project management guarantee is learning how to stay organized while working on a project and keeping everything orderly so that it is easy to find. While working on projects there were often so many elements that it would get confusing and often times if you weren't organized things would go wrong. By learning how to keep my projects more organized it made things easier to work with and helped make the projects go quicker and with less complications. I also learned that keeping thing orderly in storage is important because I didn't have a very organized desktop which led to some problems finding files I needed.
Collaboration
One valuable thing I learned this year from the collaboration guarantee is that sometimes working with a group is better than working by myself I usually prefer to work by myself but some of the projects required working in groups or getting others input in order to finish. One example of this is the final project which was much larger than anything I could have done by myself in the required time frame. I had to collaborate with the rest of my team and make sure everything got done and was done well.
Strengths and Weaknesses
My biggest strength this year would be that I picked up on the programs pretty quickly and didn't have a whole lot of trouble learning how to do the things we needed to learn. My biggest weakness was I was to ambitious on some of my projects and took on more than I could get done leading me to not finish everything and have lower quality work.
Conclusion
In conclusion this year was full of a lot of new things that brought many challenges but I learned a lot about how to finish thing and how to work with others. My favorite part of the class was the 3D modeling and I also liked the special effects. I wish there had been more freedom in the class and that we had more time on some of the projects.
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