i really enjoyed this year, it has been really educationaly and i feel i have developed my skills in many areas, hats off to you heather, chris and mike.

for the course to be more productive, i think there has to be more feedback to the students, a weekly crit sesh or something, you can show your work to the other students or lack of it and they can give you advice or a much needed (especially on my part) boot up the arse. it doesnt have to involve the lecturers, in fact i think it could be good to talk to people who dont hold your future in the palm of their hands haha. the 2nd and 3rd years could get involved if they have time and give a few pointers, that sort of thing.

a key issue for a lot of people was lack of experience with 3DSmax. i had used it before but nowhere near to the complexity of the stuff we are doing now, i knew what everything dud but i was still lost. and i can see it getting harder and harder, faster and faster over the next two years. so my input is that perhaps the level at which we start could be a little lower and the speed at which we advance starts of a little slower but gets quicker, later on. it could be helpful to have another day dedicated to it but thats not fair on heather.

another thing that could be useful is to perhaps have a longer year, it seems silly to have us finishing so early when everyone else is still at it. not necessarily more hours for the lecturers, unless they want them, but longer holidays and longer due dates, maybe thats just wishful thinking haha. maybe a bit more scaremongering is all that is required lol.

the main factor has to be with the faculty. we simply dont get the funding we need, its quite a popular course now and i would have thought that as a result, the course would be better funded and more prepared. the first few weeks were a joke and i suppose thats why we had to learn so quickly with 3DSmax. a good idea would be to do any work that is needed during the F*ing holidays when no one is there and perhaps the funding each course gets for the year is proportional to the amount of students attending.

ooooh field trips would be fun, go to a game developer see how they work, could be useful. i'd quite like to go to america you guys! haha.

i hope none of you take any of this the wrong way...and mark me down because of it lol thanx again guys, it was great :)