End Of Year Feedback

Pros:

Liked the tight knit community to the course, not like other courses where your sitting in a lecture hall of 200+.
Because of this, it makes much more of family feeling to the course,

Again, because of this help from other students, 1/2/3  years was not far away and getting to know them is very beneficial.

Overall laid back approach, I say this meaning that there is no push from the tutors, if you want encouragement, or help it is there but you can work in your own time so long as work is of an acceptable standard and completed on time.

Now have a working knowledge of the industry, because of the course my goals and focuses have dramatically altered, originally wanted to go for the cliché concept artist job, now would much rather work with engines/modelling something 3D based, I have so much more fun in these areas, although I do still love 2D.

Presentation skill development, very good idea, hope it continues into 2/3rd years, being able to get feedback from mike as he has given probably hundreds of presentations and listened to more, being able to be told the positive and negative points, from that experience was very beneficial.

2D very well designed, to get everyone to the same standard, making it more equality rather than some students roaring ahead.

Liked the outings, drawing directly from life, give a much quicker, better understanding of shape, form and depth, and it also gives students a knowledge of their surroundings if they are like me and have moved to Leicester.

Love the imaginative projects that can be made unique to each student, really lets creativity flow and enthusiasm for doing the work majorly increase.

Because of this problems are found that can be individual to each student, but when solved are beneficial to the entire year as other student/friends around you can learn from each other, which is another good point for the labs, the fact that everyone can bounce ideas and or problems off each other.

Liked the second Facebook account, although it’s a tad annoying to be continuously logging in and out of two separate accounts, the use of Facebook for the course has proved tremendously useful throughout the year to get the vital course information, speak with other years outside the labs, post problems on DMU technical at obscure hours of the morning and posting your work as well as seeing other peoples work and learning from there ideas.

Cons:

3D tutorials on blackboard to be updated and made clearer, perhaps short videos, or links to YouTube videos would be good, amount of time I’ve spent trying to follow the blackboard tutorial in the 1st & 2nd  terms  that could be better explained through a video.

More frequent feedback in critical studies, I don’t really know if any of my entries were any good, what could be improved on, what  needs to be cut out because I’ve rambled on too much, or gone off topic.

Other than those two very minor things I’ve had a fantastic year and know I picked the right course in DMU, looking forward to the second and perhaps more to a summer of gaming to catch up on!