pre-birthday celebration hurrah
That was undoubtedly the worst panel defense ever.
I was presenting the works I have done in the whole course of OJT1, I have a 101-page documentation complete with original thumbnails to comprehensive studies and final art, and detailed reflections on principles and descriptions they required us to do. Then this is what they’ll tell me:
1. Ibabalik kita sa DESPREL and NATSCA (for those non-MMA friends, those are one of the first major subjects we took. Pinaka-foundation kumbaga.)
2. Magbasa ka naman ng libro tungkol sa paggawa ng concept.
3. Kakasuhan ka sa ginawa mong yan!
That was the first time that someone ever told me to re-take another subject. She said it directly, not in a teasing manner. She told me that because I wasn’t able to answer some of the questions right - the human and environmental factors in design. She told me that my answers were directed only to myself and how I worked and I didn’t consider my clients and the effect of my design in my environment. Aaaah ganun pala yun, wala talaga akong idea na ganun yun. Perhaps I must have forgotten or siguro iba yung tinuro samin ng prof kasi it always happens naman but nevertheless I admit that it is an error in my report. But I don’t think that giving a comment as unkind as that one would make things right.
OOHH HAHAHA magbasa naman daw ako ng libro! HAHAHA! My designs raw were without basis and research, that I made it just because I wanted to make it look that way and the market nor client nor message wasn’t really clear to me. That’s what they told me after my lengthy explanation of why the colors are dominantly like that and why the animation is kept to this much because I supposed that the viewers of this project would be like this and perhaps they expect the work to look like whatever. I have no idea whether they weren’t listening to me or my research will just never be enough. I care about what people think of my work for Pete’s sake it’s the most essential thing for me - having people to like it and I just cannot understand why they still can’t see the effort I am putting into making my design more market-focused.
Then there’s this project wherein I made illustrations depicting Disney characters that I have drawn myself, vectored myself in a style that I think shouts Beam. Tapos they tell me kakasuhan ka niyan! I started defending myself telling them that these are my drawings and they are done in my style but they keep on backing themselves even more that what I did was stealing the concept of Disney because I drew something that still looks very much Lion King, Ariel (which she pronounced as Arial… dimwit! She’s not a font!)… But I’ve been vectoring images for many terms now and I was allowed by all my professors to call these images, illustrations of my own. I wanted to tell them that I am not ignorant about those rights and patents, I have researched on it and read on it and even attended a seminar on the Intellectual Property Rights Office itself so I don’t think I’m really unmindful of copying others people’s concepts. But then of course I wouldn’t want to tell them that for it might result to a debate even more catastrophic than what was already happening.
So, my whole point here is nasaktan ako kasi at some points namersonal sila. Even Jason was made prey by these merciless panels. Even Dan and Mawo, who has done really good projects weren’t spared. Our adviser, Sir Noli couldn’t do anything to comfort us. Sabi nga niya it was a bloody defense. Well it surely was! They are by far the worst critics I have ever been under and the likes of Sir Leo are belittled by them.
*sigh* I’m just blessed parin that Jason was there all the time and I’ve got my mom to cry to pag-uwi. My face feels so warm, I don’t think I can work tonight.
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JASON and NELSON's DOODLE OF DOOM IN NICKTOONS!!! Details HERE just browse around the site. Oh honey im so proud of you!
I was presenting the works I have done in the whole course of OJT1, I have a 101-page documentation complete with original thumbnails to comprehensive studies and final art, and detailed reflections on principles and descriptions they required us to do. Then this is what they’ll tell me:
1. Ibabalik kita sa DESPREL and NATSCA (for those non-MMA friends, those are one of the first major subjects we took. Pinaka-foundation kumbaga.)
2. Magbasa ka naman ng libro tungkol sa paggawa ng concept.
3. Kakasuhan ka sa ginawa mong yan!
That was the first time that someone ever told me to re-take another subject. She said it directly, not in a teasing manner. She told me that because I wasn’t able to answer some of the questions right - the human and environmental factors in design. She told me that my answers were directed only to myself and how I worked and I didn’t consider my clients and the effect of my design in my environment. Aaaah ganun pala yun, wala talaga akong idea na ganun yun. Perhaps I must have forgotten or siguro iba yung tinuro samin ng prof kasi it always happens naman but nevertheless I admit that it is an error in my report. But I don’t think that giving a comment as unkind as that one would make things right.
OOHH HAHAHA magbasa naman daw ako ng libro! HAHAHA! My designs raw were without basis and research, that I made it just because I wanted to make it look that way and the market nor client nor message wasn’t really clear to me. That’s what they told me after my lengthy explanation of why the colors are dominantly like that and why the animation is kept to this much because I supposed that the viewers of this project would be like this and perhaps they expect the work to look like whatever. I have no idea whether they weren’t listening to me or my research will just never be enough. I care about what people think of my work for Pete’s sake it’s the most essential thing for me - having people to like it and I just cannot understand why they still can’t see the effort I am putting into making my design more market-focused.
Then there’s this project wherein I made illustrations depicting Disney characters that I have drawn myself, vectored myself in a style that I think shouts Beam. Tapos they tell me kakasuhan ka niyan! I started defending myself telling them that these are my drawings and they are done in my style but they keep on backing themselves even more that what I did was stealing the concept of Disney because I drew something that still looks very much Lion King, Ariel (which she pronounced as Arial… dimwit! She’s not a font!)… But I’ve been vectoring images for many terms now and I was allowed by all my professors to call these images, illustrations of my own. I wanted to tell them that I am not ignorant about those rights and patents, I have researched on it and read on it and even attended a seminar on the Intellectual Property Rights Office itself so I don’t think I’m really unmindful of copying others people’s concepts. But then of course I wouldn’t want to tell them that for it might result to a debate even more catastrophic than what was already happening.
So, my whole point here is nasaktan ako kasi at some points namersonal sila. Even Jason was made prey by these merciless panels. Even Dan and Mawo, who has done really good projects weren’t spared. Our adviser, Sir Noli couldn’t do anything to comfort us. Sabi nga niya it was a bloody defense. Well it surely was! They are by far the worst critics I have ever been under and the likes of Sir Leo are belittled by them.
*sigh* I’m just blessed parin that Jason was there all the time and I’ve got my mom to cry to pag-uwi. My face feels so warm, I don’t think I can work tonight.
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JASON and NELSON's DOODLE OF DOOM IN NICKTOONS!!! Details HERE just browse around the site. Oh honey im so proud of you!