First presentation feedback received.

Week 4

This week I received my feed back from my presentation and its safe to say I didn't fail, it wasn't a complete flop at all. Personally I found that sometimes I'd have too much to say and I'd run out of time a little and infect the 3 minutes went incredibly fast. After the presentation was complete  there were some things I think I should definitely change for the next one such as not having so much text on my slides, remembering to definitely introduce myself, practice more beforehand and to try not to repeat myself to much.

The things that I realized I should have done after the presentation was over were things that were mentioned in my feedback. two things I think that went pretty well with my presentation was that I feel I controlled my nerves pretty well and had a good collection of pictures used on my presentation. two thins that went bad I think were repeating myself a little t much because I got a bit flustered and I had way to many words on my slides which I agree with my tutors it definitely distracted from the presentation a bit.

I think that next time I would definitely practice my presentation more. I think that by doing the practice presentations was definitely a huge help, and I didn't realize how much it would help or how much it would help boost my confidence just a little bit too.

Presentation day arrives

Week 3        

This week one of the main focuses I had was to give a presentation in my critical studies module which was on my favorite character.  

At first I initially got really excited since I felt it was a pretty awesome subject to do my first presentation on, especially since it would for sure be something I definitely had I retest in. Once I began to think about my favorite character I then started to panic a little since there are so many options for this topic, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to bring it down to one choice.  Pretty much all of my choices were pretty classical and retro from Tomb Raider  to Spyro which a couple of more newer and up to date character thrown in such as Final Fantasy characters and the new update and rebooted version of Dante from Dmc:devil may cry.

 I finally decided that after much deliberation and always jumping right back to this character that the topic of my presentation would be Tomb Raider. I decide that you just can't beat how iconic she is in the gaming industry even with how different the new reboot is, you can still tell who Lara Croft is. So I spoke about things I felt made her my favorite talking about her being iconic other genres she's been in such as advertisements and how she's changed over the year and grown with the generation graphics and consoles. 

Leading up to my presentation day I felt strangely completely relaxed, there wasn't the usual nervousness and worries, I felt pretty confident. But once it hit the day of my presentation, that's when the nervous and worries really began to set in, I began worrying if I would even be able to for my presentation. So after some encouragement and helpful tips from a tutor that really helped, I began my presentation.

I can honestly and proudly say it wasn't the complete disaster I was thinking it would be, I had this perception in my head that  I'd not have enough to say to fill up the minutes given or I'd forget everything, but it was the complete opposite. 

The nerves set in when a presenation is mentioned

Week 2

This week went fairly smoothly I think, I spent my 3D module  just really getting up to speed with practicing my unwrapping  and laying out UV map skills, by practicing with a given pre made mesh and texture sheet were I had to unwrap the sword and make them fit precisely to the pre made texture sheet. I feel that I completed the task completely and liked the practice it gave, ready for briefs where we do those ourselves. 

 For my life drawing module I spent some time doing some extremely quick warm up poses using my left/less dominant hand, the blind contouring method and crating the figure using negative shapes. I then moved on to practicing proportions by using the pencil measuring technique which is to stand straight hold up your pencil straight at arm’s length and to measure the head and then continue that throughout the body and lightly transferring the measurements onto to paper and then drawing the lines to make up the figure.  The technique really helps but I still need more practice with it I think as some didn't turn out so well.

For my critical studies module I was told that that next week we were to perform a presentation, on my favorite character as we were given a lecture on the small basics of what made a character design, good, believable, iconic and remembered. I initially felt pretty nervous and no at all confident on giving a presentation  but then the excitement of being able to do it on something I'm really interested in helped out some of the nerves but I also realized how I'm going to have to get used to doing them in the industry and that it's pretty much a given that I'll have to do them, so I thought, I may as well get used to the idea aright now, I still haven't really thought about who I'm going to do my presentation on as the are many options but I'm already preparing myself and my level of confidence for wen I do have to give their presentation next week.