200 Pages Later...

I want to take a small side step from my usual content, as a few mates I've told this to think this is a bit of a fun story to do with my studies in Liverpool. So if you like this story, we both have them to thank for convincing me to share it.

Cutting to the chase, I once made a 200 page slideshow for an assignment because my lecturer was (in my opinion) asking for an unnecessary amount of work. We were told to show the progression stages of making a low poly tree model, each tool we used and exactly where we found the tools + anything else we felt was important. It was put to the class with such an importance that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to mark down every time we so much as turned the model in the viewport.

So I did just that.

I took it upon myself to screenshot after almost every button press to show my exact process of making a low poly tree in Maya with leaves that were textured in Photoshop. The two were never put together, we just had to show that we could make a tree and a leaf in the same presentation.

I know that this was one of my pettier moments. It was definitely a dumb thing to do and unless you have the time to do it, I wouldn't advise following in my footsteps.

I don't know how long I had to complete this assignment, but it was a classic moment where I grumbled about the teachings, said "Sod it" and hit shuffle on my favourite playlist.

I swear, I can do almost anything once I have the right song playing.

It's worth noting that after all of this, the lecturer in question claimed that this work WOULD HAVE been used as a perfect example had they been able to actually load it up on a computer using the university Wi-Fi.

Hardly anyone else in the classroom was using photographic evidence to show their methods and were losing marks because of it. So for once, being petty worked in my favour. I do feel sorry for the external examiners though.

Personally I've never been a fan of my work being used as an example. I don't know what it is, whether it's how I think my peers are going to perceive my work or simply the image in my head of someone snatching my workbook from in front of me to hold up to the rest of a group and point at it. The amount of nerves I get when that happens, I'll step out of the room if I can.

By all means give me a pat on the back, gold star, scented sticker or whatever. As long as I know that you know that I've done a good job, that's good enough for me. Always has been.

It's not that I don't want to be a good example for others to follow, of course I do. I knew that this wasn't my best work because I had spent more time working on proving a point through a 200 page document than making the tree.

So yeah, this presentation of mine wasn't able to be used as an example for future students and frankly I couldn't have been happier about it.