Assignment 2 reflective

In general, Master student’s self-study skill is more important and difficult than undergraduate students. Such as software skill, research skill and how to give a presentation, all of them are very important in academic skills and higher level study. So it ask students need to think independently, and to analyse question and solve problem by oneself.

My Master Major is animation, in fact, I studied graphic design when I was a undergraduate student. So how to use software to create a animation is the first big problem when I start my Master course, and I only have one year to finish my study, I need to solve this problem as soon as possible. After first class, I talk with my teacher and he encourage me to do anything I want, and gave me some websites, especially one which is combine 2D and 3D to create an animation, after that I decided to use flash as main tool to help me to do projects, because flash is the most easy way to understand and can study quickly. In addition, teacher said the idea and thought are the most important to animator, whole project is important, but how and why is more important in process. Diligence is the path to the success.

A successful project is born from many problems, when i get a new idea, I must write down on my notebook, brain storm is very useful and helpful way to help me to think about next step or which idea is the best one. Of course, I can develop more than two ideas in the meantime and choose the best one after finish my develop work, but in fact, how to understand brief and develop ideas to the point also difficult, because sometimes I may understand brief in a wrong way. So before I start to make something, I need to make sure I totally understand the brief. Moreover，when I start my project, I give an outline and to plan step by step, this is also important in all of steps.

When I decide my aim before, I always watch a lot of other people’s work, not only animation, also paintings, design and works from many different areas. If I like the style I often draw down or write down their thought, after that to think about how to create my style and world in animation world. For example, in my current work is to develop with my one project called place of the minds, I watched lots of other people’s works.My inspiration comes from a film Seven，seven means the seven deadly sins：pride wrath sloth greed envy gluttony lust。These seven deadly sins come from human nature，In china a monster who we called tao tie is a mythical ferocious animal in Chinese fairy tale，this monster means glutton，so he is a symbol of greed.
I want to talk about and discover greed from seven sins in people's deep mind. And this monster is a character or symbol to express greed and glutton，combine western and eastern culture to create a unique world view. I use Chinese traditional style and culture to expend what is greed. Studying also is a communication with students who come from other countries.

When finish each work, I always use critical thinking in my project. According to Bailey(2003), critical thinking means making clear, reasoned judgments. But it is difficult to judge your work is finished or not finished, in my opinion, it means endless. Because when I review in every time, I always find insufficient and can improve my works again, so it will be do better in the future works.To get a thorough understanding of yourself is to gain a correct view of yourself，to understand strength and shortage.

    

Reference

Stephen Bailey (2003) Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students

Available at https://www1.doshisha.ac.jp/~ji-iie/Bailey.Academic_Writing.pdf
[Accessed: 20 December, 2015]

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