Exile: Ignition

Hey, what's up guys. It is Trident here. Today I would like to talk about something off topic. 

I have planned to write a story script for my game. It is called Exile, with a prologue title for it called Ignition.

This story is about a world with only three races of people, who are Exilian, Exodian and Paradian. There is only a mainland only exist in this world. The land is split into two regions, which are Exodus and Paradine, Exodus is a land of wildlife and covered, dominated by primary organims, plants. Paradine is land of technology and the prove of advancement of people living in an exotic life. 

Well, Exodian comes from Exodus, Paradian comes from Paradine. Exilian is combination of both Exodian and Paradian, they are the exiled ones. They are not welcomed and being praised in both sides of fractions. So they can only live by their own. Thus, they hold the knowledge and truth to everything. They can reignite the spark of memories that ancestors and mother Earth left us, but that will require sacrifice. That is fast aging. They age faster than a normal person does.

Therefore, due to their existence of superiority, they are hunted down by the GenoForces, which is a special mutated troops formed by the Federation of Paxera, a united council with representatives from both Exodus and Paradine. 

It is not the proudest thing of being a Exilian although they hold the key to understand everything. They seems to be weaken by forces and annihilation of both fractions. Now, all they can do is only survive. The inheritance of their tribe, the hero shall born and rise, the Ignition will once begin.

This is just a briefly described parts of my story settings. I hope I can develop the whole story as soon as possible, because I can't wait to write them into a novel. At the same time, I also need to enhance my vocabulary bank. There are still a lot of cool words I still haven't discover. They could be helpful in any way to my story developing and novel writing.

So once again, Gracie and Adios~  

The Exilion, Exodian and Paradian

Hey guys, it is Trident here

Today I would like to update and talk about what I have for my 3D Animation for this semester.
It is very sorry to have a huge gap between previous update, but anyway several updates are coming right up.

First, I would like to talk about torso. By the way, what is torso? Well, it is a trunk for a human body. It is the shape of a person. So that's one of the thing I learn to do.

My lecturer gave me a set of helpful tutorials, which really speed me up in modelling a torso. Well, I have model a Gundam model before and that's a pain in the ass. Although Gundam looks solid and square to us, but still it has a lot of parts and detail to be taken care of.

Anyway, I still manage to model it out. Well, I did face some problem during the modelling. One of them is lacking of steps inside the tutorial. Some of the steps are missing, because it is really doesn't affect your modelling process. It only takes you more time to figure out how to get this step to another step. Well, it is not a big deal.

Therefore, there is one major issue. There is 360 degree spinning complete sample for me to inspect. But I wish the tutorial includes other view of torso in few steps, to let people check out if there is any out of scale parts.

It is quite interesting process. Especially when you model the hands, because one of the most difficult steps because you need to keep tracking back the proportion of your torso to decide how thin or thick will your fingers and your hands will be.

Here are some photos of my torso. Have a look. (PS: It looks real bad.)

 So, this is what I can show in this post. Stay tune for the next one. Anyway, Gracie and Adios~

Land of Exodus, the peace will come, the fight will go on

Hey guys, it is me, Trident.

Today, I am going to share the things that happened to myself this semester of my university life. This week is Week 6th of my study. I am currently studying Year 2 Semester, which is things goes wild and hot during this semester.

Year 1 is a testing year for me, well it is a year where you got your basics and proceed to the Year 2 with the skill you acquired before. Unfortunately, things doesn't go like what I planned. Year 2 is just like a leap for me, the skills that I acquired before it is definitely not enough for me to survive and perform during Year 2. In other words, I need more what I need now. To improve, I need to study, practice and research more. But time doesn't allow it. The heavy work that crushed upon by the assignments. 

On the other hand, I was elected as Chairperson of UTAR E-sports and Video Game Club. So the responsibilities that lies upon is even bigger and larger than it could ever be. No doubt, I love Games. They are everything to me. I am not complaining and I am even enjoying doing them. But apart from games, I don't like drawing, because I have a worst hands in the world. I just can't do it. This is the only thing that I spent hours everyday just to practice and not master it but to get familiar with it. In the end, it is still fail. I can't draw well, that's the fact. End of story. 

Back to the things as a chairperson of a club. Well, I have been a chairperson before in secondary school, but the amount  of members is nowhere near the club that I am having right now, 180 members. Oh WOW! My club just form this semester and all of the members are fresh-recruit. Oh My God, I am impressed and surprised that people at here do really enjoy or love games. I am so happy to have this result but yet on the other hand, my job is going to be tough because I have never handle this amount of members and they are all active in the club. Oh my gosh, it is like controlling a traffic in a New York. In other words, You CAN'T, you can't fully control the situation. So by far I just do what I can, go with the flow, and adjust from time to time. My target is build a stable basis for my future committee. 

I admitted this current team can't fulfill all my visions in a year. even Sports club takes three years to have their system in stable. For me, it is going to be the same.So I just guide my team to the right path and aid them as much as possible. 

Yes, I know I might looked blur and dumb to some people. But yet a person that calls other people blur are yet to be see the truth behind those people. Never underestimate a person. When I am not good  at this genre, doesn't make me an awful guy in any kind of field. Well, this things is just ain't my thing,  you know?

Anyway, the topic is kinda off track. This semester is going to be fun and tough, the responsibility and the amount of work, all together makes me fueled up. Bring it on! So once again, Gracie! and Adios~

Image Sources:

1. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pqlpUTMPBO0/maxresdefault.jpg

2. http://www.mmogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/eSports-Image.jpg

3. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/31AAgOny2Ro/maxresdefault.jpg

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~