The other day we presented our games for staff and parents and I feel as if I did not do the best I could have. For starters, I fudged the while speaking part as I was really nervous and worried about time. My mother made the mistake of planning for dinner at 6:30 somehow mistaking the time frame of the prenentation. That aside, I feel as if I was able to convey my message well enough to be understood. I am somewhat proud of what I have accomplished this year in terms of my art and my game is at a point where it is almost done. I am ready to wrap up this last part of the year with confidence that everything will be A-Okay!
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I am happy to say that I will soon be taking a trip to unc Asheville to go to the admitted students day. I am so very ready to go to school at Unca because the school offers clubs and other opportunities in game design. I am excited to see what that is all about and if I can get some contacts in there for when I am going to that school.
Today I was accepted to my first university, University of North Carolina Asheville, and it also happened to be my first choice school. I am ecstatic about this development as this school will allow me to further pursue my concentration in game design and digital arts with a special program that takes classes from different state schools and organizes a program suited for me and my area of interest. I am really happy to have been accepted because this school because as it does have a very strong art program, it is not just an art school. UNCA has has a huge engineering program and marketing program. What I find most interesting is that the school encourages the different programs and areas of study to interact and sometimes even requires classes not in your intended major to be taken so that you can understand how to work with that area if the occasion requires it in the future.
The school Itself is wonderful but it also just so happens that it is also located in Asheville, one of the coolest towns in the Appalachian mountains. The opportunities are endless for the area. The local economy is seeing a steady upward trend and the community is very pro-arts. Not to mention, the town is in the Appalachian mountains. I would love to learn more about that gaming side of the community, as I know from experience that the town is full of nerds, and see how I can perhaps be influenced by that. I would not be surprised if I had many volunteers or partners around to help me if I were to continue making games outside of the school curriculum. I am really happy to have been accepted and look forward to all the opportunities I will have in those years that I spend there. I may even continue to blog in collage if I find time to do so because this is a very good way to keep track of my progress. Thank you all for sticking it out with me, we are almost there! This past week has been a mad scramble to get things together. I have been working on a lot of things from collage applications and teacher recommendation letters to friends birthdays and school events. This is the only time I have really had to sit down and get work done, I feel kinda bad for not making a post on Friday even though I had plenty of time to do so. I will spend the rest of today fixing things and posting my work here. Hopefully I can get what needs to be done in so I can further work on character models.
Next week I will be working on character designs and models as well as dialog boxes. The other day a student that I was student teaching for asked me if I could teach her how to animate. I have had few previous experiences with teaching besides what I have done so far this year as a student teacher, but I have found that teaching is actually something that may be interested in (be it as a teacher or just tutoring). Anyway, she was interested in animation, a topic I have little experience in, and wanted me to help her because of how "good I drew". Through this experience I was able to get a look into how younger artists see art or draw contrary to how I do so now. This was an important experience because I realized that if I were to market future games toward kids I should draw the art in a way that appeals to them that is not over complicated and reflects what they can do themselves.
I am happy to say that i am finally starting to begin looking for a job. I am looking for anything that matches my skill set such as commissions or game related opportunities. One job in particular that I am interested in is being a game tester. Already I have a few options from visiting game conventions. Other than jobs I may participate in a few summer internships where I will learn more about how an artist functions in the game industry. Next step is actually securing a job or internship.
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