My future

Where do I want to go..

Right ok before you start reading further I suggest you read the link I found first on cognitive reflection and decision, because this may sound weird but it’s pretty much how I’m always thinking, not that sophisticated but there on a more social level.

To explain that I’m one of those people who’s destiny it seems to be to see or hear every scenario imaginable happen in life to a person whether it be through me or my friends. By the scenarios I mean love, events, jobs, etc literally everything. I’ll then think about every possible solution I know of or can create to deal or solve the scenario at the best approach, tends to be why a scenario of life changing proportions approaches me I take great time and care in making a decision on how to go to and through it.

So best to start really as to how I came to the decision at doing game art at DMU. I’d never really thought about what I wanted to do as a career until second year college just did what interested me and that I enjoyed. Love art so chose that path of destiny. Anyway originally I thought about doing animation, I enjoyed doing it and the endless possibilities of what I could create. Enjoyed the important word hear. After the years of hearing my parents moan about how much they hate their boring jobs that their now stuck with, poor them, I decided I wanted to do a job I was interested in and would enjoy so anything creative was really on the table for me.

I came onto the DMU game art course because I got a great impression from the beginning about it. Well run, educational and importantly something I’ve an interest in.

Now where do I go from here? Good question. I’ve an interest in both sides of the course concept and 3d modelling, I’ve liked the idea of character designing and creating things realistically that don’t exist since I was eight. So it can go many ways for me really and in a time like this economically beggars can’t be choosers. In either case I want to develop my skills and learn new ones either side of the spectrum, progress and make things more effectively. In the end I may choose a preferred path to go down but for now I’d rather look at all the scenarios and solutions......

..........that includes looking at people who I’d like to work for or with for that matter. For now I’m sticking .

http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUK317&q=reflection+and+decision&btnG=Google+Search&meta=lr%3D

Level Up

Thoughts on first year and ideas for the second....

Well admit-ably the first year of game art for me hasn’t gone how I thought it would of, that’s not to say it went badly necessarily. Its definitely had its ups and downs. Having no labs to work in for the first 7 weeks stopped me being able to see the software side of the course which I was really interested in seeing. Also so I don’t know whether it was miss interpretation or just me but I got the wrong idea with the blogs as I thought they were just going to be personal things each week not assignments, me I hate writing as it is but I was slightly annoyed at this oversight. However in the end I’ve found them rather enjoyable learning things I never even knew so they were a good help, just a problem when it comes to time management with them.
All the rest though I’ve found really brilliant, some experiences I was reliving like blind contour drawing (shudder) but all the same an enjoyable course, I wish however my bad time management hadn’t effected me so making it harder for me then it should of been.

Second year though even more to talk about really, what’s in store, well hopefully me reorganising myself will lead to a much more productive year as well as me improving on the skills we’re using, however to improve next year’s experience I’d really like to see and do more group activities, this I think would help improve many people’s way of thinking and broaden their creativeness through brainstorming and development, fun to. I’d like to do more 3d sculpture assignments in different mediums as well like the paper and wire projects we got at the beginning of the year. Also much appreciated would be more trips out as a group and more lecturer, one to one, time, as I feel we don’t do enough of that each week.

I believe those ideas entwined with the successful parts used in year one can make the course an even better, more enjoyable and educational course.

Sound in Games

Sound in games

We all love a great gaming experience, there are different things which contribute to the game which make it a good experience, and sound is one of them. Sound does many things in a game as it does a film, as it tries to put you into the game, that’s what modern games are trying to achieve these days is it not?.

Sound sets the atmosphere. Different tempos and beats create different eras and feels, for instance a soft slow and gentle beat which may quicken for a love scene to something loud, fast and heavy for an action moment say in a war game. And then of course you’ve your sound effects to objects and people in the games. Bones breaking to a car exploding their all there to make you feel and make it seem as if your there experiencing it for real, why do you think surround sound was invented? All these little are there to make things so much more entertaining and real, even full length tracks get people into the game setting the mood of things and at times making you feel as if your almost dancing in the game to the music. People such as Joe Hisaishi, Yuzo and Jasper Kyde make tracks just for games and make our gaming world so much better, some songs you’ll find are great to game to my personal favourite is time to dance by panic at the disco, makes me think I’m playing Kingdom Hearts 2 again which also to me has an amazing sound track.

Now if sound/music can make you do and feel like that then surely they’ve done their job brilliantly whilst making the game, sometimes I wonder if they come up with the music before they even think of the game.

http://www.aintitcool.com/?q=node/34360
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinji_Orito

creativity burning with a passion

Creativity burning passion

When I spoke of creativity a few weeks back one point came up in conversation that I believe I didn’t really pick up on in the blog entry...... Passion.
It’s so simple but yet so key to someone being creative. Passion is really one of those greater pushes we have that makes us do something, do it or get through it, depends how passionate you are about what it is your using your passion to do.

We talked about creativity being the process of creating something whether it is new, old, improved, with a purpose or without. Thing is without passion to do something why would you bother doing it in the first place, why be there if you don’t like it or have an interest in it. So with passion and of course motivation, but passion in itself can be motivation saying that, you strive on to do what you do so when it come to creativity the more passionate you are the more creative you are the more ideas you produce that flow from your passion. Bits like when Ms Trunchble said cookie had poured all her blood and sweat into that big chocolate cake from Matilda, you pour your creativity and passion into your ideas and designs. If you’re that passionate about something people say it always shows, and so it should through your creative pieces and designs.

You have however like with your creativeness got to think of your passion like a fire you got to keep it burning strong so you should make sure you keep topping up the fire wood by doing things whether they be hobbies, activities or collecting things otherwise you’ll see things slump, your creativeness dwindle and your passion die out. If you got it you must keep it. It’s easier to lose something then it is to find something.