Critical Appraisal

In general, compared with my previous experience in making FMP in my junior year, I learned a lot of knowledge, which included the consolidation of previous knowledge and the study of new knowledge. This is what I grew up in three years of college.
However, while I learned a lot during this project, I also encountered many difficulties. I had always planned to participate in the production of a complete virtual animation short film in the final project, but I could not find a suitable team member, so I chose to make scenes and characters by myself in the end, which put me in a dilemma. I have to spend a lot of energy to learn different new knowledge to make better works, learn new software, new technology and new production process, which makes me feel a little at a loss. I often have many tasks to do, but in the face of so much new knowledge, I have no way to start, so I delay a lot of time. Although I have listed all the processes I will use, I also followed the process planning table, but I made a mistake when planning the schedule. I planned what should be done in each period, but I did not include trial and error and possible rework time, which led to great pressure on my tasks in the later period. Meanwhile, it was a huge workload for me to make characters, scenes and animations. However, I think one thing I am satisfied with is that I have completed all the tasks planned in Element 2, but I still need to do a lot of optimization to get a better effect in the graduation exhibition. For example, the small town street in the scene, although I have finished the production, the street lacks story, and I still need to add some models before the graduation exhibition to achieve better effects. During the production of the character model, I can actually do more research and enrich the equipment of the character, but my thinking is limited to the character design I drew before. So optimizing the characters and setting is something I need to improve after that. It is very important for me to know how to plan the project time. During the production of the project, I would think that if I give up a part and make a special part of it, I can get a better effect, but it will also make the task I planned impossible to complete smoothly. I think my choice of making characters and scenes has advantages and disadvantages. The bad thing is that I can’t focus on one part to get better quality. The good thing is that I expanded my knowledge in the junior year, especially the technology of animation capture, which makes me more confident in making independent animation short films.However, there are many small problems in this process, which I need to reflect on in time. The production process has not achieved the effect I want, which is what I need to improve. When dealing with modular modeling, I can make it more standardized, but because I did not fully learn the idea of modular modeling, I started to make it, although the final effect was produced. But optimizing my process is what I should do in the future.