Review of the second year.

The second year was a tough year, it made me grow up a little, get into harder-working mentality and develop my artistic skills further. I have learned a lot during this last term, probably more than in entire first year. You may ask “What took you so long?” – Well, coming to university is a challenge, especially for those like me came straight after finishing their foundation or secondary school. You are basically all green about what adult life is like, or how is it going to be. It’s not all fun and games. University isn’t for everyone either. Some people drop out straight at the beginning, some later and some stay and push through it. University is a lot of stress and pressure, but it is just as rewarding and I am glad I took it up and roll with it.

So where is this course taking me?

Aside from the growing up part, I am starting to see more clearly where I am heading. I now have strong feelings about becoming a character artist. (2D, 3D) I would love to work in an indie company, making cool fantasy games. So how do I get there? Simply we kill the batman. I just need to keep expanding (Jabba Hut). I like where this is going I have to say, I am really enjoying the course right now and I hope it will be even more fun and challenging in 3^rd year. I collected small library of books and software by now, I am actually curious about learning new things. Life is good.

Now a little about the mistakes I have made during the year, well, it took me hell-of-a-long time to finally get slightly better with time management, or maybe not even that so much as getting into some sort of routine, it can get only better from now on I guess. I have learned a lot from my mistakes in the group project, because in the end, the roles matter and you are dependent on other people doing stuff, thinking one person can pull it all off is not the way to go.

I got better at taking critique. And that is always a good thing. Being less precious about your work has helped me to improve massively as well. There have been all different good things that came out of me this year, clearing my uncertainties was one of that. I was at the stage in middle of the year where I thought I just should have given up, drop the course, pack the bags, I am not good at it, yada yada. Then thinking I want to do something else, I want to do everything, and maybe I should do another course instead. Thankfully all of that passed.

For now we will just keep on moving.