This week is the first week of holiday and that means, the marking season is here.

These are the assignments I have to assess. Excluding the ‘digital’ version of assignments.

My buddy left last week so I took over one of his classes assignments for marking. Obviously, my surname is very ‘unique’ and not many people can spell it correctly.

Actually it is still not so bad. Some of them wrote Cherry Tham, Cherry Tian, Cherry Thiam, Cherry Tan…etc..

The smart one just wrote ‘Cherry’…Mm…

I do enjoy marking assignments. It is excited yet worrying. Excited is because I look forward to be fascinated and impressed by their work. Worried is because some talented students with full potentials could not finish their work due to some circumstances (eg, thumb drive crashed etc)

But overall, 90% of the students did a fantastic job that surprised and fascinated me. They were able to model characters with textures and shading that they designed from first week. These students took up 3D for the first time and yet, they have accomplished it so well even though they are not design-trained. Most of them did fantastic and complex human characters with awesome weapons. I knew from the beginning that it wasn’t easy for them and I believed that they have gone through it with tears and sweat. But to see the characters came to life in 3D was such a great achievement for the students. And so, I am truly grateful for that.

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