A short rant (or as the business calls it: A mission statement) on the events I’ve experience over the last nine months and why it has inspired me to make this blog in the first place.
I am a production assistant at Convergence Training, and freelance asset creator. I work on databasing, modeling, video editing, and web design. On my free time, I create game assets in 2D and 3D, perform voice acting, and study in different media. As polymath, Clifford Stoll once said: “the first time you do something, it’s science. The second time, it’s engineering. The third time, you’re a technician.” So I get bored easily and usually like to branch out and try as many things as possible. This led me into an overemphasis on multitasking and picking up on a lot of worthless skills and talents. In fact, I had some concerns in College where instead of being very good at one skillset, I would be mediocre at a lot of different skills. This has turned me into a generalist, which led me into what I could consider my main area of focus: Production, I found leading, or at least assisting in the process of production is where I could use my talents. With general skills in many different programs, I could “translate” between different groups of designers and programmers what they wanted out of each other, and that is what led me to my current job, where my broad set of talents can be capitalized to do and learn most any task.
Since I was very little, I was full of creativity, imagination, and naivety. There was simply nothing I wanted to more than entertain myself and others with whatever I could get my hands on. This overabundance of energy left me with very little friends and plenty of concerns for my parents who, backed by their old Asian traditions, would find me to be quite the troubled one. I eventually started concentrating on the entertainment industry as an outlet, calmed down thanks to puberty, and developed skills in art. I went to being voted “Most Awkward” in High School to just the start of a very sucessful, rewarding, and most of all: exciting life, and I still plan on going down this road until the day I die.
I graduated from the Art Institute of Portland in 2010 and during the 9 months following that, I did almost nothing creative. From trying to find a new job to sleeping in the homes of many friends, I had little time for creative exploration unless it was something related to my main job. Although very mentally stifling, I’ve pent up all these ideas and projects I would like to try out. The 3/4 of a year spent wallowing in obscurity had only affirmed my beliefs that creavity is often taken for granted, and that exercising it on a daily basis is the best way to stay artistically active. This blog, I feel, will motivate me to continue down my path and keep on creating, whether it be for entertainment, education, or merely my self outlet. I shall post frequently with all the musings of my life.
