Personal action plan, Week Twenty Two

After having my review from my character project. As my review from my character project was excellent and I am on track to an potential A grade, I have to reflect on my work and review myself, as I am the only person who knows my strengths and weaknesses. So that I can make an action plan to develop my skills and decide what improvements need to be made. If I could have more time to improve on my stylized character project, I polish my final concepts to a more professional standard, with some extra environment finals and poses. I noticed that the contrast on my final orthographics was a bit strong in certain areas, which I would blend out. If I were to go back and improve my character model, I would change the posture of the spine, as my concept orthos have a 's' shaped spine, whereas my models spine looks too straight. I would also spend more time working on the texture map, especially the face, skin and top. I also noticed the smoothing groups were not correct, which I would edit the normals to solve this problem. Overall the area I need to improve on the most is rigging, although I managed to rig the top half of the body without a problem. I had a lot of difficulty rigging the skirt. However I learnt from research and tutorials, that in order to rig a skirt you need to add extra bones around the skirt, which I added four with five links. I gave this my best attempt of rigging the skirt, editing the envelopes, painting envelopes and editing the weight table, however there is still so much I need to learn about rigging.

Although I have improved greatly in all areas, there is still a lot I need to improve to be at a more professional standard. In conclusion to reviewing myself, at this point after the character project. I know that I need to improve on my time management skill, I have already improved a lot, as I am able to complete all tasks within the deadline. However, If I gave myself more time, I could of improved all the areas I mentioned previously. I know that my knowledge and skills in 3ds max need to improve, which I can develop over time with my learning progress. Finally I think I need to continue to develop my digital painting skills, which I can do by practising.