Journey to the land of Exodus

What's up peeps? It is me, Trident here.

Today I am going to bring up a topic of introducing a creative thinking technique that I recommended by one of my lecturer in university.

It is called SCAMPER. I am not gonna go into deep details about this technique. Well, you can look it up online. Before, here it basically what the technique stands for "Substitute", "Combine", "Adapt", "Modify, maximize or modify", "Put to other uses, "Eliminate" and "Reverse or Re-arrange". Anyway, you can get the ideas of how it works by understanding the words. If not, just look it up online.

I am gonna share on my thoughts on this technique. Well, to be frank, this technique seems useless to me. Not saying it is bad, because I already have my own way to develop new ideas, not going to let other things to flood my brain. But if you speaking of a person that just barely steps into creative genre, this might seems a good start for them.

To me, this technique is way too complex but yet it is cool way to branch your ideas out to many possible results. That's a nice thing to know. You can witness your own ideas to have many capabilities in many kind of genres and categories, in other words to make your ideas have higher chance to be accepted and succeed. Well, we can inspect like this. What if you are already out of ideas and facing the wall for nothing, This might seems like a nice technique to make you jump out of the trapped circle. But in the end, it is still not my choice of generating ideas. It is just too time-consuming and inefficient.

My technique is absolutely simple, it is quite similar to the "Combine and "Adapt" part of SCAMPER technique. Just like this, you take anything that happened very long time ago, such as incident, objects or whatever and you take anything that haven't or might happened, which is mostly your imagination. Combine them together and analysis it, you will get a random cool idea. This is how I get my ideas from.

For example, something happened long time ago, like the Medieval Warfare and something that haven't happened, like the futuristic feel Space Age. Combine them together to get an awesome idea. No doubt, it is part of past assignments and I got the highest score in the class with a comment of "Rare ideas that still yet to be discovered. Good Job." But by far, there is only one game that is very close to my theme of ideas, which is Final Fantasy 15. However, they are more focus on Medieval Fantasy, which is magic, alchemist that kind of stuff. While mine is focus more on the presentation of future technology but with a settings of medieval settings and twisted backstory.

Anyway, this is how I generate my ideas. It is very very dumb and simple technique. I love to make things least simple but with most effectiveness, such as my technique. So guys, I am going to end the session here. Once again,  Gracie! and Adios~

Image resources;
1. http://www.biggerplate.com/mapImages/xl/8e32ec10-ff33-4ab3-a734-af4f29dc945f.png
2. http://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Who-Were-You-In-Medieval-Times.jpg
3. https://newevolutiondesigns.com/images/freebies/futuristic-city-wallpaper-20.jpg

It is going to be a long journey...and tough...

Yo guys~ It is me again, Trident. How's your day? Mine is been fine but it is kinda busy with stuff pending to be done.

It is cool to be filled with "stuff-ish" as long as they are interestin, then I am OK with it.

This week, back to my journey of learning 3D Animation basic skills. Well, it is cool to get touch on some of the real animating stuff and features included in the application. It is really difficult for me to start with because I haven't acquired such knowledge before and I am trying to get over it.

It is really run when you surf through tons of YouTube channels to look for your own proper tutorials. When you follow those tutorials, the results will always be very funny as they are all kind of professionals, but somehow they looks easy. At least I try my best. Derp~

Well this is a short video animation that I have done this week. Please enjoy~ It is my first animation video.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tsbkfdxba2m1baf/3D%20Walk%20Cycle.avi?dl=0

It is kinda terrible, but I will try to make it not to look absolute horrible. I will improve myself from time to time. But I can't promise this will be a quick achievement, due to the overload amount of work that I am having right now. At least I will still try and stand on whatever happen. Once again, Gracie! and Adios~

The Mysterious Unravel Journey

Hello guys, it is Trident here!

Today I am sharing my thought on the second assignments of 3D Animation (II). This time, I need to choose three walk cycle videos from the Internet as a reference for my further working. Below are the videos links that I chose.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCM-ST08Ev4
First video is quite a good tutorial that I found. The tutor teaches how to do a stylized walk cycle instead of an ordinary boring one. Walk cycle can be interesting by adjusting the movement of hands and legs. By exaggerating the movement could be the first step of making the walk cycle lively and attractive. Basically this is what the video teaches me.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTFysAIM6Ug
Second video is a very classic walk cycle. It is frankly boring, but the explanation is what makes this video special. The details of teaching walk cycle is quite clear. Well, I won't get confused from it.

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxKg0zoIvEc
A very quick tutorial on how to "kinda" cheat walk cycle. This is quite helpful when I want  to get things done quick or experiment things faster to check the results. I can know the basics of what software features should I use faster than any other tutorial.

In the end, all of videos are really helpful. They aided me in animating the walk cycle, especially I am not good at this subject. Well, anyway thanks for the tutorial. Once again, Gracie! and Adios~

A long lost journey~

Hey peeps, it is me, Trident here!

Haha, it is been really a long time since I updated my blog. It happened like one year ago. Well, time sure passed like a water flows. I am still pursuing my lovely university course, Game Development. It is still my dream since I have swore to myself to make a change to this world.

Anyway, that would be a long story to tell. Ok, today I am going to talk about a subject that I am currently taking in my Year 2 Semester 2 of study, which is 3D Animation (II). My first impression to this subject is like 'Oh well, this subject is going to be real tough and I am gonna suffer from it.' Why? The answer is obvious, I am really bad at drawing. All I can do is draw cartoon-ish stuff and I swear that kind of thing is my limit. But I am still gonna try my best to make it looks good or great provided if  I can do it marvelously.

This time, my assignment is draw 6 portraits of myself with different expression for each. This really looks fun to me in an awkward way. Honestly, I hate my own face, not because I don't love myself. Well, it is because that's really a thing in me. (Word can't describe it) So I still manage to hold it and successfully draw six portraits without punching myself.

And these are the six expression-ish portraits. It includes annoyed, boredom, worried, shocked, angry and exhausted. Below are the potraits.

And I have a worst phone camera and I know that, well guess I am gonna stick to it until I have money to change one.

This is the best I can do by far. I am still trying to improve my drawing skill because drawing is really one of weakness of all time. Well, I may unable to draw like those greatest artist, but at least I try to be a decent one. Once again, Gracie! and Adios~

The end of something and the beginning of something

Hey what's up guys, this is your boy, Trident right here.

This week is my final week of my first year first semester of university's life. Today, I will just share about what I have experienced throughout these months.

First of all, I will start with the teachers, or we call them as lecturers and tutors at here. Honestly, they are a lot more different than the secondary school teachers. First difference is they don't do spoon-feeding stuff, they don't actually directly give the the answer instead of discovering it all by yourself. All they are doing is just guidance, suggestion, advice and so on. That's why self-learning and discipline become an important role in your personal inner-self development.

Second difference is the schedule of course. Unlike the days we had back there, the schedule for now is more flexible. We can go anywhere else while you don't have class. It is very different from secondary school which you leave the school when you don't have class is considered as
"skipping school". So I am more satisfied with the university type of attending class, because it is more flexible so I am able to do my stuff during the free time.

 

Third is the assignments. What I had done in secondary school is only homework and homework. My school seldom assign us things to do. Technically, it is only an assignment in a year. others are just homework, exercises and so on. The style of the assignments also different though. What I did in secondary school is just following the instruction given by the teachers unlike now we need to figure what the lecturer actually needs.I actually found this challenging and interesting because I am improving by self-learning rather than just follow other people's path.

Then, I want to talk about my ultimate assignment in this semester, which is making a board game. I and my friends as a group just presented it last few days. The comments are quite good but the only problem we are facing is the game balancing. But the lecturer said it is normal because you guys develop all these things in 2 months. A published board game takes months and years to balance the whole game. So I think we did a great job right there. I am satisfied of what we had create. I also want to say thank you to my friends who contribute a lot of efforts into this game, especially the design. It looks fantastic. I feel a little bad because I only set up the rule book because I am the guy who came up with the concepts and mechanism. Looking at them suffering while drawing the design and I can't do a thing just because my drawing skill sucks.

Anyway, I enjoyed all of them although some of them are not great. Yup, these are some of the memories I had in this semester. That's all for today. Grazie! and Adios~

Image Resources:
1. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01969/reading_1969992c.jpg
2. http://www.sa.sc.edu/ssc/files/2012/12/how-to-build-a-schedule.jpg
3. https://lagunita.stanford.edu/c4x/Education/EDUC115N/asset/images_course_image.jpg
4. http://cdn.playbuzz.com/cdn/4c6e21fa-d7e5-4ae5-8813-435a5cc4ed94/3afbfc55-67d5-4908-a3d1-2b818e229062.jpg

What now? What for? Whatever...

Hey yo, here comes Trident!

Today, we are going to talk about music.

I am sure that everybody loves music. If you don't love it, you should try it. Speaking of music, let's start off with the origin of music.

In the old ages, music is a way to communicate. It is very strange and mind-blown that our ancestors think of this way to communicate rather than just plain speaking. Like there are few songs that the indigenous people sang. Honestly, I don't know the exactly song name, because they didn't name it. It is very awesome that the listener still know what song the singer singing without knowing the actual name of the song. For me, the important part is not the content that the singer sing. It is the spiritual part that immersed in the song. That's why the listener know what they are singing. Because they FEEL the song instead of understanding the song. Honestly, it is very sad to see that, nowadays our song is becoming more meaningless day by day. What left is just about love, violent, sex, and so on.

 Like the songs from Mozart, Beethoven, and any other great musicians, their songs are also telling us something. From what I know, they are telling us their emotions, feelings and stories. Like Bumblebee, the song perfectly describes a scene of flying bees. The tensed situation of bees flying in the air. The messiness and the quickness of the bees.

John Lennon

Music can also affect someone's feelings and thoughts. such as John Lennon's Imagine. The song came out at the time of USA having war with Vietnam. The song actually tells people not to war but to have peace. This leads to a lot of people protest of what USA doing is wrong. If there is music, there is a singer. Singers do affect the fans. Fans may copy whatever they do. So can you see how huge is the power of music.

Other than that, music is way to relax or to get motivated. If you want to relax, you can try to listen to "Ambient Music", it is proven by the psychologists that this kind of musics do help to relax. Every person has their own motivated song, you can try to listen to those music which has a heavy beat or bass in it. The better way is listening to music with drums, as long as it works well for me.

That;s it for today. Grazie! and Adios~

Image Resources:
1. http://www.real.com/resources/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/streaming-MP41.jpg
2. http://mrgmi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Communication_Image_Cloud-1024x666.jpg
3. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/8/22/1377166166803/Give-teeth-a-chance-John--011.jpg
4. http://thebudgetnistablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/282884.jpg

Survive or not?

Hey yo! This is your host toooooday! Mr.Trident in the house. (*pump the music)

Hello everyone, today I am going to talk about a thing that recently happened in my country. Yes it just happened on April's Fool day and that thing ain't a fool at all.

Yes, my country has recently launched a new tax system that is known as GST( Goods and Services Tax) or other country may named it as well as VAT( Value-added Tax). Both of them are almost the same, the slightly difference between them is the place or genre of where they apply on. But genuinely they are similar.

 

So when there are taxes come in, the first to get struggled is the citizen, that means us. More taxes mean more money to be paid to the government. Well, I am not doubting that if the government did do something that is efficient to us. Speaking of struggling, most people around the world sure feel upset about the bills, mortgages, fees and so on that is related to MONEY. Although I am not very abundant, also comes from a comparatively well-off family. We do feel stressful right now, but all we can do is survive as long as we can. My family puts much hope on me and my brother and sister, so I must do well in my from now on, so that I won't waste their efforts. I am also appreciate what I have right now. But as an ambitious person, I demand better things in the future.

 

There are a lot of countries having GST/VAT, their citizen may have the same problem as us, living in a stressful life. But for some modern countries, the citizen living there may feel a lot more better than us. Because the facilities, technologies, services and son that provided by their government seem to be greater than ours. They got what they deserve, so they may feel ok about it.

France and Eiffel Tower

If you want to blame GST for causing you a lot of mess. Please blame the creator of GST system which is France in 1954. Well, this system maybe a good way to get money. I have to admit this is a very smart way to gain money. Well, from a business man's perspective, it is smart. But oppositely, from a citizen's point of view, this is just a crap. But honestly, there is still a lot of ways to gain money without damaging citizen much. Just saying.

In the end, whether if you are stressful or not, everyone be passionate to your living and live like a person, don't regret when you are dying. Grazie! and Adios~

Image Resources:
1.  http://lawyergeneral.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Tax-on-lawsuit-damages.jpg
2. http://uk.urbanest.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/life-is-a-beautiful-struggle.jpg
3. http://www.totalmortgage.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/money.jpg
4. http://truenomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/City-Landscape-Eiffel-Tower-Paris-France-1024x640.jpg