This was a project set by the aquarium and organised by the college, we where to create and interactive animation that would be uploaded to their website and possibly shown to people in the aquarium as well.
For this project I really wanted to aim at a broad audience and be able to capture something specific to the aquarium, and really get across personality's of fish. This entire project was taken like a job interview, we would design a pitch to sell out idea to them and if they liked it design it and aim to meet their deadline.
During this project I think it has really shown me what a working career in this area can really be like and developed my skills in many areas. I found this quite stressful some days and at some point really didn't want too look at another fish. but it has also taught me how to adapt and look out for different and more efficient methods to achieve something this applied to Photoshop and especially flash during our work .
On flash their are millions of ways to tell an object to do the same thing and it really helped me learn to understand flash, I think I get the rough basics to how to get something to move on its own and a few other things which could really help me in the future if I ever need to do something with flash.
One thing I really liked but also despised on this project was the pressure it created by being form someone other then the college, it brought what I think is a working attitude to this project which made you work above and beyond trying to get things perfect and create something not that you'd just consider nice, but something the audience and the aquarium would find more then pleased with to put on their website. but also created tons of stress for for me worrying if I would meet the deadline or if the idea and pitch was of a good enough quality for them.
Another thing is planning and teamwork, Although we where missing a person we still managed to split the original plan between us and kept up with it for a while , one thing I really do regret is managing to spend too long on one area which lost alot of valuable time on out flash animation its self.
I think this has really helped develop my skills in alot of areas how to improve on ideas , how to plan a pitch and sell it to the client. What research should be done so everything is fact , learn exactly what they want so listening to their criticism and things they consider areas hat need improvement, also just run it past other groups and see what they think.
Considering mine and toms positions in this project I don't think we did that bad we managed to create a brilliant idea in my opinion which had great potential and we also managed to do most of the tasks we set out to do it was just the end and piece them together and code we had a problem with.
We made a back ground a bit over time because I spent way to much time fussing over small details on it. But we had all the fish animated or ready to become animated ready to go. The thing that i really think got us was the time , It sounds alot longer that it really was and really ended up biting us.
Also missing one person really did effect out work output and what we could do. especially seeing as he was the one person in our group who had experience with code and flash before.
I never thought missing one person could effect something so much but this created such a back log on the work load and gave even more pressure for me and tom.
I also had to take one weeks leave which put tom at a disadvantage.
Over all I don't think our finished product is very good although it had the potential to be great. we had a number of set backs which hit us pretty hard but I do think we managed to coupe quite well. Even if the project its self was not very successful the things I've learnt form this like time management a fine plan, clear presentations, team work, code in flash, even more about flash, improvising , adapting to the situation, learning on the spot and seeing flaws and things that could be improved . all of these are things ive realised while doing this project. Being a project from a client was really good in my opinion , because we weren't showing it to a teacher, so it really did not make you think " i can leave it for later" but this needs to be done that 110% had to be put in other wise its your face your tarnishing not to mention your representing an art college. It also gave a great reward to work after.
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