Evaluation

This project has helped me in many ways for the future. I have learnt many things from being given this project and adopted many skills into my work. I also came across many problems, which in time helped me to also learn many new skills through working hard to solve the problems.

I faced many problems throughout this project and one of the main ones was the video export. When we was was making the original export individually, mine was the main project that was blurry and came out in very bad quality. I was not very happy with what was produced because I wanted to show off all my heard work and detailed modelling. We solved this problem by changing the settings of Premiere Pro. Another problem I came across many times was the "ignore backfacing" option which on many occasions I forgot to use. Hylands House also gave me many problems because of the complexity of the building. on many occasions it was stubborn and did not let me do what I was trying to achieve. Especially with the weld tool.

One of the main things that I have learnt throughout this project is to work effectively as a group. Many times over the project my group and I met up and helped each other out to produce an effective end result. Through the many discussions and problems we all faced we helped each other and put in 100% towards the end to make sure our video was improved and of the best quality we could make it in the time we had. Another thing I have learnt that isn't a big deal but I am very proud of, is that I was able to make a flag and animate it to make it look effective. I would not have been able to achieve this without the help of the tutorials. I also learnt many things about the program itself. I was unaware that 3Ds Max automatically saved your work in a folder continuously as you work on it. This means that if you make a mistake you can easily go back without saving your work every five minutes. This will come in very useful in the future. Another skill I learnt was how to make a beach. I have seen many effective rendered versions and always wanted to know how to achieve it. I am very impressed with my beach and the rippling of the water and I will definitely be using this skill again in the future. The camera flashing was also very new to me, as was the multiplier curve features to turn the flash on and off.

The skills that I have learnt throughout this project will help me now, whilst at University, and possible in the future, when working in the industry. I would like to go on further with 3Ds Max as I think there is much more to learn from this.