My First NTU Blog

With this course, I would love to be able to further my skills with multimedia and also prepare myself for a future as a games designer. I'm very keen on learning as much as I can with games design and animation as I have recently developed a huge interest in animation. This was due to starting a series of video based projects which are parodies of a fairly well known video game series. I upload the videos to Youtube and they have gathered some attention and have received very positive feedback from the viewers. I am currently working on the 10th video in the series and I am considering the possibility of doing even more of them in the future.

I originally was into becoming a character designer as about 18 months ago, I actually started to try japanese manga style drawings as a hobby in my spare time. I didn't feel I was polished enough as an artist though to become a character designer and I actually found I really enjoyed animation and was fairly good at it after I started my new project. Therefore, that is the reason why I switched from wanting to be a character designer to an animation artist instead.

As well as doing this course, I'm also going to be studying the language Japanese as a supplementary course at NTU. I'm a gigantic fan of all things Japanese and Chinese hence being able to do this course would be extremely helpful for me in the future.

During this week, I haven't been up to much aside from all the official welcomes from NTU including the Dean of the School of Art and Design and a NTU graduate who went on to win a gold medal at the Olympics. I also got introduced to all the staff involved my course and received a very helpful and interesting insight about the Multimedia course. With the actual Welcome Week events I haven't really been to any so far as my friends decided to back out of the Game On! event and also the Chinese buffet, but I will be going to all the upcoming buffets, the Japanese taster session, the samba and instrumental workshops, bowling, a hypnosis show and a comedy gig, so I do have plenty to keep me busy.