Creative futures

It was very helpful for me to this brief for creative futures, I heard wonderful talks and saw a lot of brilliant works from students and professionals. I saw a lot at the Creative Futures Week and I did learn a lot from it although I couldn’t understand all the details of those talks because English is not my first language.

I’ll begin with “Motivating yourself to get what you really want” from Denise Chilton as that is the most impressive for me, although she didn’t teach me any skill of game design. An effective persuasive speech includes a summary of the evidence presented. She gave us lots of data from her research, at the same time, she gave each of us a questionnaire. Everyone there thought of how satisfy of their lives, what they really need and what they need most at the time. Also she ask some questions and some of the answers she got were quite fun. I should say the atmosphere there was celebratory and I felt happy when I heard it. 

Although everyone could answer the questions as what motivates you, but I realized it was a problem when she want to get personal goals from audiences and there were few answers. A clear goal could help people works twice as fast and with half the fatigue, but there were few people have personal goal.

Back when I was a kid I wanted to be a animator and I drew on a wall of neighbour, then I wanted to be praised and signed my name, but what I got was just scold. After that I was barred to want to be a animator. Although I am doing this, I still believe drawing can motivate me more if my wish was been supported. I realized the importance of goals through this talk. Ensuring a clear goal is not enough, there will be varied things can stop you. Denise Chilton also told us methods to continue our efforts for our goals. The thing what I learned from this talk may be quite simple but it is really important for my work in the future, it is the most basic thing.

The talk “Design studio overview and insight(Fashion)” was awesome, it didn’t really serve me much applicable knowledge about my subject, however, I feel a lot of the most knowledge to my dissertation next year was from there. She has her own unique insights at fashion and her careers can show us her success. I think I can combine with her overview and insight and collect some game role costume design works to find out some information which I need.

Background information on speaker designer with own label trading for 20 years, Jane Davies is the Welsh designer using the national flag in her outfits. The dragon collection was developed in 1999 where at that time Wales was having its own assembly and holding the Rugby World cup. The concept was created from a Welsh dragon dress made for her niece and the collection developed into a 10 pieces aimed at adults and children. Overnight orders rolled in and sold through websites, independents and department stores globally. The visual idea caught the attention of the world media and the collection was produced in national flags of the world. Many private orders came from celebrities, ambassadors, media and governments. The collection was produced all in Wales which in turn helped the economy and small business.

Jane was not just done this. The inspiration came from the colors of the peacock feather itself and the collection was created to showcase at the British Embassy Dubai. From there the collection was taken as part of best of British in Kuwait a great achievement for a small company based in Wales. Pieces of the collection were commissioned by the Chrysler Building New York and awarded “Top 10” at Showcase Ireland. Talk about peacock feather, in the traditional Chinese culture is the embodiment of beauty, a symbol of the kind, beautiful, elegant, good luck and love. Chinese senior officials of the Qing Dynasty(1636-1912) use the peacock feathers as hat ornaments, called HuaLing, with one eye, two eyes, three eyes, So-called ”eye”, refers to the peacock’s tail tip color stripes.

Chris woodworlds talk from TT games was also awesome, i’ve learnt some real interesting aspects that will help me in the future to achieve all that i can in regards to hunt a job and motivation. Chris was quite a humor speaker, he show us how he got a job and how long it took him even the photographs where he had gone. He showed us some videos what he did from the LEGO games and some of the procedure. I never knew a 2D painting expression can move on a 3D software, I should say I got a lot of valuable information from his talk.