WEEK 5: Whitespace, white flag

21 May 2016

This week was "whitespace week", it was a busy week trying to juggle outings and catching up on my CPD work. I feel that it taught us how as working adults to manage our own time.

Laselle talk and FREEBIES

On Monday, lecturers from Laselle came to promote their school animation faculty. The talk was neat! I got a free shirt, pent and alot of booklets. :) They showed us a showreel of their student's work,  gave us a bit of insight about this industry and what is their curriculum like. Laselle is one of my top few further studies option, and the price for studying there is less expensive and we can get a degree faster compared to ADM or Digipen because we will skip 2 years of studying. I am skeptical about skipping levels, I don't mind wasting time because my animation foundation is not fantastic. Nonetheless I am considering Laselle and planning to go to their school's showcase to ask the students in animation what is their experience in Laselle. It was very beneficial to plan for my future education!

Tuesday was Infinite studios day!! 

I was so excited to go infinite studios as one of the many local dramas that I watch is filmed at the studio, Tanglin! I have never been to a local set before so when I got to the set area I played and was amazed by their set design.

The CEO Freddy Yeo talked to us about the industry, it was such an honour so meet the person who founded this company. He showed us the studios showreel and a video of how their quality of film improved since they establish the company till present. There was a Question and Answer segment of the talk where he told us the importance of pipeline scheduling and planning and there is no standardise schedule as it differs from a big film to small ones.

The tips which he gave us was very helpful. He reminded about the importance of our portfolio and communication between clients is very importance. He recommended to not stay in a comfort place too long and you should gain different experience at different work. When starting out in the animation industry it would be good to be a generalist as people can use you for many jobs.

The Tanglin set and green screen big room

Homework days ( the rest ) were stale and unexciting, the only interesting was Houdini, a new software we had to learn. I am always bad at adapting to new softwares. That was how "exciting" the other days were.

Here are some sketches that I did this week (not all):

my sketches

Team Dynamics

As the week 6 viva draws closer, the pressure and anxiety increases. Our team is getting restless and easily irritated with each other. I am not an exception, I feel very bad for nagging at my group and always repeating myself unconsciously.

I would like for our group communication to be improve, we are concentrated on our own work that we don't pay enough attention to each others drawings. On the plus side i think we should keep up encouraging each other. It is quite refreshing to hear praises.

Goals

I think that my lack of sleep has played a part for my bad behaviour (6 hours of sleep). I shall sleep more and also be more positive and less annoying.(sorry guys for all the trouble if your reading this)