In Career Prep class yesterday, we did a whole lot of quizzes like “how well do you work with others” and “working in teams” that sort of thing since we’ll be working in teams for industry etc.
Another quiz we did was a personality type assessment using Jung’s studies… so I’m an ENFJ ‘coach’ type… this is apparently very common among this industry. Here are some links we looked at in class http://typelogic.com/enfj.html and http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/workingoutyourteamrole2.htm
I think it describes me uncannily well… the teacher also said that the ‘coach’ type and the ‘crusader’ type (ISFP and INFP) are also common among industry and are similar to the ‘coach’ type… but I don’t think my personality quite agrees with that…the crusader type has a strong sense of convictions and value but I think I’m pretty malleable in that sense considering that I tend to adopt others’ values and ideas if they have a good argument/ logic to it.
Then we got a ‘group project’ and we’re supposed to make a presentation ’selling an idea’. I’ve decided to work with Liam and we’re going to simulate presenting a character design idea to a group of peers.
Meanwhile, today in Compositing class I’m having troubles with Combustion… well not so much Combustion as Maya first of all… Maya for some reason was refusing to render tga files and would repeatedly render in iff and I would check and recheck my render settings and even left my render settigns window open while batch rendering so maybe if it was visually there, maya would clue in to the fact that it is SET to render in TGA!!! After much more fiddling (and grief) I finally got it all to render in tga by glaring at the computer and stating that I would hurt it severely if it did NOT render in tga… honestly I checked and rechecked my settings and that’s all I did different.
I was reminded of this quantum physics documentary I watched and they had this experiment where they put labels like ‘love’ and harmony’ on bottles of water and later, the water had different patterns on a molecular level… so lately I’ve been doing things like naming and petting my external hard drive to make sure it still knows I depend and care about it… one might ask the question “Is it working?” and I might answer “Well I think so, and even if it IS all in my head, I don’t think it will be detrimental to the hard drive so I’ve got nothing to lose doing it other than my ’sanity credibility’ among people who happen to observe me doing it.” I mean like… my Animation teacher pets the computer screen all the time (in jest I think) and it gets a laugh out of the class so… it’s all good.
Back to Combustion… well my particle effects disappeared and then when I got a classmate to come over to help me, suddenly the particles were THERE! Obviously the computer program goes “teeheehee, I’m not going to work because you aren’t very familiar with what you are doing! … wait, oh nos! you are bringing over someone with experience! Ok, I’ll do what you say now…”
-Sharon
