Nekoshiro - researching process

As one of my task is to create the lecturer, I have to research for creating the image of this lecturer. THis is a cat named Nekoshiro. And we will designed the 3 different style of Clothes for Nekoshiro:

1- 1 formal costume for the Introduction and the Quiz
2- 1 normal style of clothes for the 7 lessons, they will have different color
3- One for the lesson of Conversation

And this Cat will have three main emotion apperance:

1. Serious face
2. "evil face" to notice user of sth
3. funny face - for congratulation

And I have researched for several style of illustrating a cat:








The formal suit will somehow like this:


This makes me think of an "evil" face for the cat:

TIMELINE FOR THE PROJECT

In this week, though I have finished most of my parts in the project, still I have to check and make a suitable timeline for the project in the proposal. In the whole project, we got the four main parts. They are the Lecture part, the Lecturer & Animating Section, the
Sound Production and the Menu:

LECTURE
In this part, we will prepare the things belong to the lecture part of the project. They are including:

1. Direction in each parts of the lesson (status bar)
2. 7 Lessons:
- Vocabulary for each character (sub area)
- Review the lesson (mini-quiz) (sub area)
3. Basic conversation: in this part, we would teach the user several basic greeting sentences such as Hello,
Good Morning, goodbye, etc.
- Lists of conversation
- Review the conversation
4. Big Quiz: this quiz is to review the 104 characters in 7 lessons.

LECTURER and ANIMATING SECTION
There is a cat represent for the lecturer. His name is Nekoshiro
1. Design the standard of the Nekoshiro: standard, 3 suits-changing color, etc..
2. Animating the lecturer
3. Animating the characters

SOUND PRODUCTION
1. Pronunciation
2. Sound effects
3. Meow - sound of Nekoshiro

MENU (global navigation)
1. Design menu
2. Making links
3. Put everything together

LEADING SKILLS

Although I have tried to lead s team many times, still I can recognize many strong points as well as the defects. However, I have practise and overcome those defects after all. Once surfing the Internet, I have found these advices, I found some of them are very benefits to me in this team:

• Know your team.

• Meet your team.
  

• Train your team.
  

• Grow your team.
  

• Set objectives for each team member.

• Review the performance of each team member.
  

• Inspire your team.

• Socialise with your team.
  

• Thank constantly.

• Praise constantly.

• Communicate constantly.
  

• Eliminate.
  

• Delegate.
  

• Empower.

• Be on time.

• Be seen.

• Make time.
  

• Really listen.

• Accept honest criticism.

• Think strategically

• Have a mentor or buddy

• Have a role model

• Constantly revisit and review these tips.
  

• Plan your succession.
  

On my personal judgement, I found myself just reach about 30-40% these sections, however, I would try to reach to 50-60% by the end of this semester.

for more explanation: http://www.rogerdarlington.co.uk/Leader.html

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The Project Proposal is on the progress, we have a meeting to divide our task already.