Coming from the US and sitting finally down AT LCC gave me an exhaling sense of accomplishment. Although I am very out of my element, and have little no experience in this field, I feel like I have cemented a part of my future in having started my goal of becoming a VR/3D designer, and in turn having a career through this medium.
It was refreshing hearing students around me know facts of Pixar and Disney, as these production companies were really something part of my past and look fondly back at the memories it gave me. Now at 30 years of age, I’m looking through a different lens, and seeing how these companies possibly inadvertently helped shape what animation means in a modern world today. Furthermore, with the clarification of algorithms it made light of some key aspects of coding I wasn’t a hundred percent aware. That being, algorithms are merely equations based on data, and that’s it. It’s not some magic the computer does, and most certainly it isn’t something to be scared of unless it is used blindly. Even though this information is public, I do feel the general public has a skewed view on algorithms and how they are made and used. As I digress, I think having this awareness and thinking forward of what possibilities I could create in this medium, the use of algorithms used should be well researched and not just copied and pasted as if we jumped back to ‘Spark Note’ times.