Tri 5 KPI’s

By James Ball

It’s that time of the Trimester again, so that means this week at Uni we had our Mid Trimester KPI Meetings. The following is my reflection on the work I have achieved thus far and various topics we discussed in the meeting. I Will Put in My Responses for the PKI Below.

STRONG WORK ETHIC

I believe I have achieved Successful Application. I don't feel I'm currently at par with my work ethic of last trimester yet and this comes down to a few factors. (1.) Family stuff, (2.) My biggest contribution to the group project only starting in week 7 and (3.) lack of motivation/preferring to get to bed early and sleep than do homework in the evenings. Regardless of that, I'm still meeting deadlines with the work needed to progress forward.

POSITIVE ATTITUDE

I believe I have achieved Successful Application. I do think I have a Positive attitude most of the time, but group projects always seem to test that for me. In week 6 I was a week ahead of scheduled for on starting the rigging and whenever I would start to do the rigging I would find that there was not enough topology in certain areas or the edge flow was not correct for animation purposes. And then I would have to go back and restart the rigging Process. I now feel I have lost that extra week where I could of been rigging due to people not thinking ahead in the modelling faze.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS

I believe I have achieved Successful Application. I feel I have achieved this because I haven't missed a single Meeting, whether it is in class, out of class, over Skype Calls or Messages over Skype, Facebook and Slack. I'm always in constant communication with my team mates.

TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS

I believe I have achieved Successful Application. I feel I have achieved this because I haven't missed a single Meeting, whether it be in class, out of class, over Skype Calls or Messages over Skype, Facebook and Slack. I'm always in constant communication with my team mates.

PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS

I believe I have achieved Masterful Application. From Week one of this Trimester I was put on the Task of Rigging the Main Character for our Group Project and in between then and now I have sunk a lot of my time into R'n'D so when It came time for rigging I wasn't flying blind so to speak.

ACTING AS A TEAM PLAYER

I believe I have achieved Successful Application. I haven't missed a single Meeting, whether it be in class, out of class, over Skype Calls or Messages over Skype, Facebook and Slack. I'm always in constant communication with my team mates. When I couldn't start rigging because the Character mesh wasn't built correctly I notified my team mate strait away and the problem areas got fixed.

SELF CONFIDENCE

I believe I have achieved Successful Application. I've hit a point where If I Need to know something to move forward I would go out and read a book, Go on line go to a lecture and ask what I used to consider being "Dumb Questions". I am also making a conscious effort to not interrupt other people while they're speaking and start listening more.

ABILITY TO ACCEPT AND LEARN FROM CRITICISM

I believe I have achieved Masterful Application. This Trimester I don't recall to much criticism to learn from as of yet so I jump back to the end of last trimester during crunch time for studio 2. There were changes that I was told to Make and I made those changes. Right up to the morning it was due.

FLEXIBILITY / ADAPTABILITY

I believe I have achieved Masterful Application. For my Personal Project This Trimester I was going to experiment with using Mudbox for texturing but since I'm not very fast at 3D modelling I have had to drop that Idea and settle for going with standard texturing in Photoshop.

WORKING WELL UNDER PRESSURE

I believe I have achieved Successful Application. In recent months, I have come to realize that working well under pressure for me isn't necessarily working well under pressure, but what I would call it is working out of Necessity. Basically I've hit a point where If I Need to know something to move forward I would go out and read a book, Go on line go to a lecture and ask what I used to consider to be "Dumb Questions". If you want a different answer then I will repeat what I said above. During crunch time for studio 2, there were changes that I was told to make and I made those changes. Right up to the morning it was due. 

THINGS I NEED TO IMPROVE

In This Latest KPI Meeting There wasn’t much that my lecturer didn’t agree with, which is good to know. The Main KPIs I Focusing on this time are Effective Communication Skills, and Self Confidence. An example I can give of this is for our group project this Trimester, when I couldn't start rigging because the Character mesh wasn't Built correctly. So I notified my team mate strait away and the problem areas got fixed without too much hassle. An area that I still need to improve on in regards to the KPIs above that will get me achieving a Masterful Application; is to simply listening more to the people I am communicating with and to think more about the answers I give them. My Lecture told me that if I can achieve that more and stay at the current standard I’m starting to achieve then I would be on my way to a Masterful Application of the Above KPI’s.

To finish off I’ll leave you with a quick progress update.

The Rig is ready for Skinning, for when the Model is ready.

It may look Broken, but it's not. It's . . . A FEATURE!

OK. As always this is Ballzy247 signing out.