Danzio's Return!

Hello!

After a very long break from the Easter Holidays, I have recuperated from exhaustion since I had last blogged. I have returned with strong determination and willpower to complete the remaining assignment of the current unit. When I arrived at the center, I spoke to both Matthew B and Matthew T to inform them of the remaining work, which was only the dope sheet and titles/credits. Note that I came in during the holidays for several hours to help improve my English and become more succinct.

When Adam's countdown buzzer went off, the "Amazing Adam" welcomed us back whole heartly. One major good news was regarding our efforts in our work as it was recognised by many staffs, resulting in an increase of value for both the center and our final certificates/achievements. Next, our starter was to work out simple mathematics under pressure. We played this on a website which gave me specific questions to answer within a set time. There are 10 individual levels and the difficulty increases as it progresses. At the end of the starter, I had achieved all 10 levels and I have beat the game! The fact is that I can do simple maths under pressure, woop! If you are interested in seeing if you can do mathematics under pressure, click here and see if you can beat me. (Beware of epilepsy).

Danny can do simple maths under pressure!

Next, the lesson began and we have the whole day to complete the third assignment of unit 37 (U37A3). We firstly gathered together as a group and slowly worked out where to put the titles and credits in our animation. Throughout the first session, we came across technical issues as the software was not following our commands. However, after a lot of blood, sweat and planning, we ultimately decided to make the titles within our animation and then create the credits at the end. By using a part of our animation for the titles, it shortened our animation's time requirement and so Matthew T increased the duration at the ending scene. This is so it fits within the criteria. During so, myself and Matthew B annotated this feature on the production log.

Afterwards, all that was left was the dope sheet where Matthew B needed to fill in his part of the animation he created specifically. At the end, I personally went through and double checked everything to make sure it was precise and accurate. As it was in a standard quality, I decided to make it a professional quality by reformatting the text boxes and made the overall appearance more aesthetically pleasing and easier to read. This led to the completion of our third assignment, this meant we submitted our animation altogether!

At the third lesson, the "Amazing Adam" gave us a brief introduction to the fourth assignment. As everyone had their own work to do, I waited patiently and decided to ask Adam on more information about it. We decided to come up of 10 questions each for the feedback and narrow it down on Thursday together.

Overall, today has been a productive day and everything that was needed to be done was completed. It was also fun to prepare ahead and I have been able to catch up with everybody on this slow Monday-like Tuesday.