The Computer Animation module, I did for Aston University in my final year, was probably one of the most stand out and different modules I did due to the fact there was almost no coding involved. The only other I could compare this to was the cyber security module where there wasn't much coding as well but anyways lets get back on topic. We had to learn blender so we could then model and animate a scene of our coursework.
For my blender project, I found I struggled more with the modelling aspect of the coursework and I found the animation part quite easy. This was despite the fact that the animation part of the coursework was worth more than the modelling. Now you might think that this is a good thing as I could more easily get marks for the animation which would be correct but that isn't the whole picture unfortunately. See, it was required for us to make our own models so if you struggled to create your models for your animation then you'd most likely take up more time doing the modelling which could potentially leave yourself with little time for animating. Fortunately I didn't run into this issue but that was one of the thoughts that immediately came into my mind whilst I did this coursework.
For my coursework we had a loose theme of the future that we had to do for our animations. For me, I decided on a futuristic shooting range with and elf that would walk in, wave at the camera, walk further in to pick up the laser pistol and then try to shoot the targets as they appeared. The reason choose an elf as the main character was linked to my grand idea to have a cyberpunk, high fantasy world from my Game Dev module which I thought could neatly link to the course theme of future. Ultimately, I found that I was too ambitious and scrapped most of the aesthetic ideas for that module to focus on the game features but idea of cyberpunk elves was funnily enough preserved in the Computer Animation module instead!
In the end I smashed the coursework, getting a 1st in the course with 80 something % of the marks making it the highest marking module I did at Aston.
