https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUZzRTOXJZ4
The one without much light, my first attempt and honestly the one that interacts with the light the most, even if there’s not much to react to.
I won’t delve in to the specific evaluations of my model as I’d prefer that to be saved for my final render, however I do believe this turned out really well with my horrendous scheduling, although I obviously could do a lot better.
This blog post will reflect on my poor time management, whereas my final evaluation will focus on my technical ability and reaction to the assignment.
Now on to time management.
I’m terrible at it.
After speaking with Jason Theaker, he pointed out the irony of how in-depth my procrastination blog post is, considering how delayed I was in starting all of the work.
My work ethic was poor and needs improving, I became the very thing I claimed was unhealthy, knowing the consequences and being self-aware to the damage it’s causing me. Not only to my health but also my assignment.
Why is this?
Honestly it’s a mix of bad habits, lack of discipline and laziness, yes I had an actual injury that hindered progress. However that reason was only valid for the past week, 2 if I push it. In all honesty I didn’t take this assignment as seriously as I should have, focusing most of my time in other areas on the belief that my untrained, self-taught 3d “background” would allow me to finish this easily.
In reality I just didn’t bother doing much work, I didn’t push myself and therefore didn’t learn. At the 8 week mark I just as skilled as I was at the beginning, with maybe a couple shortcuts learned along the way. The blunt truth is that I set no deadlines and trusted myself even though I’ve never proved I could do stuff like this in the first place.
In the past 2 weeks I learned:
The power of the extrude tool.
How to properly utilise the “Insert Edge Loop” and “Multi Cut” tool.
How to target weld.
Soft selection.
Texturing.
Creating Textures in Photoshop.
I had a lot of potential and I wasted it along with some marks as I believe I could have produced amazing, consistent work if I were to actually do it over time. The final deadline, along with some personal ones allowed me to – almost from scratch – achieve the level of work that I did in only a week, now if that was consistent over 10-12 weeks then my skill would increase and I would go from an average student to a high level one. Which is what I’m determined to get to by the end of this year, because if I stay like this throughout university my grades will lack and I won’t have a healthy work ethic developed appropriately for the workplace.
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