Graduation Speech :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

On behalf of the class of 2006, the second graduating class of Digital arts at George Cogswell College, we would like to welcome you. It is an honor for us to have you here to celebrate this special day with us. This is the last day of our school course and the beginning of our professional life. It is also a day that we have worked in truth hard for and we know we could not have done it without your help. We have examine diligently in these past three years and go through numerous changes in the digital technologies. Some of us had no idea what we were acquire into. We had to deal with both the creative side and the technical side of the digital arts. The creative side was always fun We had fun designing characters, and consequently animating them. We had fun analyzing filming and audio techniques, we had fun listening to for each one others scripts. Acting class was most amusing I will never for strike our storytelling class. We came up with various weird and fascinating movements for our classmates to act out. solely when we applied all(a) of this creative fun stuff digitally, the technical side tormented us. There was always new software to come across, especially in animation programs. Our 3D animation classes were excruciating we had to memorize more than a generous amount of technical terminology and a myriad of short-cut keys. We had to learn to think in 3D, to understand the relationship of our model from top hatful to side view and front view and pay attention to both detail practically anything from modeling to material, texture, and animation. If we were not careful, our characters hands and feet would disappear into mesh Besides that, there were computer problems to worry about. Some of us had experienced system crashes through power outages during the storm season. Others experienced file putrefaction a few weeks before the finals. There were many sleepless nights. In fact, one of us broke the school rules and stayed overnight hon orable to get some work done, disregarding the alarm in the hall. After this incident, every night at closing time, the on-duty instructor walked around the computer populate many times to make sure that no one was secrecy under a table. Ill never forget those moments. (Now the school has installed alarms in all computer rooms at the new building there just is no excuse to try to stay over night.