Right so I know I am basically writting this post right after the other, but it's just to break it up a bit.
So my reasoning for creating this blog is actually quite boring and a little selfish, but I like to think I am countering this by actually sharing it. Don't complain, it's free... gosh! Basically as I have just come to the end of my first week of my masters (so far I've had 4 days) I work from 9-5 Monday to Thursday, with the emphasis of the course being on getting some experience at working in a studio environment, so this is how we work. As I walked back from my course today two things were going through my mind: 'damn it's hot today, weird coz it's been hotter this week than it has all summer. I wonder why that is, maybe...hmm nevermind' and the second thought, being the more important and less off-track, was more of a reflection of my first week as a masters student, having to get up at 7.30 every morning despite getting woken up every night anytime between 2am and 4am by people who would still be heard a mile away if you asked them to whisper.
To put my thoughts in a nutshell, because I have to as they can waver very far at times, is that I had learnt so much in this 1 week. So many things which I had believed or thought in a certain way of the games industry and the way it works, had been twisted and turned on it's head before being made so much clearer, although possibly more complicated in a beautiful way (much like looking at a car engine only knowing what it does but not how, to suddenly knowing what each part does and why). A lot of my fellow artists (just the 5 artists and 10 programmers on this course) had blogs where they posted their work and such. Which is what got me thinking, I could put all my work on there along with my thoughts at the end of each day of what I'd learnt from that session so that I could see how I have progressed, and hopefully it may help some of you out there understand a bit more about what I do.
This blog will also be useful in another way; because the human memory is actually terrible, and the amount of information we forget/lose compared to the amount of things we keep is quite staggering, and when you think about the amount of things you are learning/taking in every single day, it's only natural.
So for me, this blog will serve for 2 main purposes:
First) It will be somewhere for me to dump everything which I have learnt each day. Get it out of my head so that my mind is clutter-free, leaving more room for the creative 'stuff' to do bounce around in there.
and Second) it will be a good way for me to re-visit all the things which I have learnt and may have forgotten. When I start on a project and I feel like I am missing something, I can just come back here and maybe gain inspiration, or just re-remember something useful.
So there, this is why. My next post will contain the things which I have learnt and my thoughts of this past week (what I can remember of it of course). After that I will TRY to update each day, though I cannot promise anything right now.
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