In this collaborative unit has been a very hard working experience for me. Over the little time that we had for this unit we had to, decide on which theme/group we want to work with, gather all these group members and create something from that decided theme. Concluding on what you want to work on for the next 7 to 8 weeks with your group members is a very important part and has to be decided as a team. due to lack of time you would also need to decide fast on this matter and can’t make the biggest of changes. It is very important that as a group you are good in having an overall acceptable time management which in our group due to dreaming big with the project sometimes had some issues but in the end we pulled it through. Every week we had a meeting with all our group members to discuss our process of everybody’s individual role.
Looking at our group members we are a very diverse people from different degrees and specialities. having to work with all these different courses has been very in siding and has giving me the opportunity to learn from different spectrums of this industry.
The part that I had in the group project was working on the 3D design and creating a scene of the ideas that we had thought of during our meetings. my role in the end concluded of environment visualisation, 3D modeller, texturing and assisted of animation and lead in rendering the multiple images. looking back on the project I have worked on many different things and would say I was a generalist during this process. There were a few times where we would walk into a wall and I decided to search for a solution of the problems we were fighting against. due to this issue I had a lot more on my shoulders then anticipated but ended up learning a lot more through the process that I would have imagined. I ended up also working on the rigging part due to it having some problems and changing our time management. This has gave me a lot of very intensive work to do in the end. This is all for a better learning experience as well on how to really work in a group and how to manage your time. It is really important to know what everybody can deliver in these kind of collaborative projects, this will make it to where you will know when doing a project who needs to do what. As a group we discussed this quite well but overlooked the fact that no one in our group had a very good ability to make a working rig, this is something I will have learned and bring into my next group project. A very positive matter in this project is that all the group members supported each other throughout our hard and long working days. I believe that supporting each others work will increase the value of their process.
To summarise my experience, in a project there can be lots of frustrations, lack of sleep and you will always run into some sort of problem that you did not count on. But having supportive members that will work and support each other for 2 weeks in absurd working hours is something that won’t happen every time you’re in a group project and is in my mind very helpful. In the group I have taken the role of a generalist and in some times a leading role helping out the members around me.