Course Overview

things I learned:

People are much more capable beings than they put forward. People can do amazing things if pushed hard enough, and if they allow them selves to be flexed under pressure.

Skill level rating, is a hard one to pinpoint, because it's so open ended with the different directions of the course, I can't really say definatly, but I'd say I started the course at about a 7 out of 10 and now I'm a 9. Only at the things I dedicate myself to. Anything else is just unconsious thinking and learning.

soft Maths and programming, I knew I wasn't going to do amazingly at, and maybe that's because I thought, and believed I wouldn't. Maybe I never really tried as hard as I could have. I have allways been really off with numbers. At times they're too open ended, but at others, really linear. I'm more of a lateral thinker, I don't think much in patterns and set modes. I like to experiment and venture out creatuively, and I can't seem to do that with numbers as I can with physical art.

3D, I got better at, but mostly because of outside experience. I got better at using Blender, but to me, using Blender and being great at 3D graphics are riding the same train, but in two different carriages if you know where I'm going with this.

Bitmaps, digital imagery, I certainly improved on, but mostly outside class as well. Most of it wasn't really owed much to the work at tafe, more of my outside game industry work, but I still learnt alot about flash and vector art.

video, I had alot of fun with, it was hard and pretty overwhelming at times, but It was a great experience and I had a load of fun doing it. I wished there was more focus on editing though.


all in all, the course was a great learning curve for me, allowed me to meet other people and work with them, nut out problems and do alot of fun stuff.