26th February 2021

For the first week back after the half term I decided ill write my reflections on Friday instead of the Tuesday appointed time just so its easier for me to remember and so I'm only covering 1 full week instead of days spread across 2 weeks. On Monday in Core Principles we discussed different art and visual styles of video games, covering design of the world, characters but also menus and UI. I've enjoyed writing about different features of games I like and some tasks have actually been quite challenging but I think we are nearing or have just finished project 2. We then had Maths were I got my results for the mock exam which was a Pass. I'm not disappointed as its a fair starting point as we hadn't covered some of the things on the mock and it highlighted areas to improve on. For the work we did Cross Product which I found quite difficult to understand so ill have to practice some more questions at some point. We then had programming where we created Tic Tac Toe using code. I just finished it in time but didn't get to test it so ill have to see if there's any errors and if it works well. This was the longest amount of code id written and even though I didn't understand every little thing I had a basic understanding of what the lines of code were doing. After that in VFX I gathered some free stock videos for my group to use in the project which we might only be able to start once we are back in College. On Tuesday I started my new Art Essay which has to be 1500 words. I'm still doing about Claude Monet and impressionism but have moved to his Water Lilies series so I'm able to write more than just doing 1 painting. In Animation we worked on a few 3D animation tasks that involved constraining an object to a path, I completed a moving teapot and started working on a solar system. On Thursday In Games Dev I finished the texturing process for my Viking Shield adding a new wood texture and some paint to give it a Nordic theme, then finally some blood to make it seem like its just been in battle. In 3D Modelling I started a new Star Wars Droid model that covers high and low poly following tutorials. The model proved to be more difficult then I thought, which I wrote all about in my lesson log, so I may have to focus on other models before returning to that one. Finally in Study Skills I added work to the Wix Portfolio about my Core Principles art styles tasks and my Viking shield texturing for 3D Modelling page.