Week 32: Semester 2 Presentation

The presentation, I believe, went much better this time round. I felt much more confident throughout and I felt that helped me in my delivery.

Basically I did a sum up of my progress throughout the semester.

I mentioned primarily the Going Live and the Mastronauts project.

For Going Live I focussed primarily on Texturing and Rendering.




Concept art I'd created for 'Concerning Dragons'.

Texturing/Concept tests for 'Concerning Dragons'.

Lighting tests using IBLs for 'Concerning Dragons'.

Rendering for 'Concerning Dragons'.



Throughout the Mastronauts Project, I will be honing in on the Lighting, rendering and compositing processes and I felt my roles in Going Live have really helped me to prepare for this. In the presentation I also described how Going Live has assisted me throughout this test:

Comping the character into the scene

Node Tree in Nuke

IBL for lighting the test

Week 26: Reflection on Practice - Conference Day

And then there was light.

Today we had our presentations. It was a long day, but it was great to see how everyone's research journeys had turned out. I had kind of hoped to have been earlier in the day, but I ended up being in the last group. It didn't turn out to be much of an issue though, after all the practice I did, I felt a lot more prepared.

The practice run with Kirti and Sheng helped me dramatically and gave me the little boost I needed.


Some of the slides from my presentation:

Near the end of the project I explained how my research progressed like a journey. To begin, I was thinking solely from my own personal development. This moved to how this information could also help those in the field of VFX or studying to be and how this could help better visual effects and compositing in film and TV. However, the research has lead me to a new path and currently I think I would like to take my research down the route of pychological, social and intellectual development of autistic individuals through digital media, animation and VFX. I looked into this topic and found grounds that this sort of research could definitely be successful and I am very interested in taking my research down this path.

Over-all, I feel that my presentation went rather well. I feel extremely pleased with the difference between this presentation and the one I did in the practice session. I hope this will prepare me for future presentations I will have to do.

Week 25: Reflection on Practice - Presentation Preparation

Putting my presentation together this time round is much easier and I have a significantly clearer idea of what I want to say and how I am going to structure the presentation.

This week I have also tried practicing my presentation to some family members who took great joy in booing whenever the um's and ah's made their way to my lips. Nevertheless, their advice and patience has certainly encouraged me.

Kirti and I have also agreed to get together at some point and practice too, and I think this will be a great confidence booster also.

The biggest benefit so far, is that with having written my thoughts out in the paper, I no longer need my notes to know what I am going to say. I feel that I know the content and structure of my research well enough to do without. This may allow me to keep my hands from fidgeting and my gaze on the audience throughout.