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Change of Major?

Wed Sep 23, 2009, 10:12 AM

Mood: Eager
Listening to: The Beatles
Reading: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (soon)
Playing: Braid
Eating: Muffin
Drinking: Air

Well, it looks as though New Media isn't working out for me. It took a long, wild, expensive year—a year of really not being challenged enough—for me to realise that I need to make a switch. I've decided that I want to be studying what I should have been studying from the outset of my college career: computer science, in the context of game development and simulation, which will get me a lot closer to what I want to do than a major that focuses principally on the design of interfaces.

Not to say that this'll change things much. It's just that from next quarter on, nothing I submit will have been required by a class, which in some sense should make my work more genuine. For a while I probably won't have time to work on artistic endeavours at all—not that I've been so active on here lately.

At the same time, I will make time in my schedule to practice those subsets of art and design that I enjoy and in which I want to improve, specifically typography, pixel art, digital painting, and 3D modelling.

As an aside, I just noticed that I've recently hit 5000 pageviews. I now feel inexplicably inspired to do or make 5000 of something. Any ideas?

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~Kaiseto Sep 23, 2009, 1:02:17 PM

Draw 5000 miminies. Doing something.

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And then, for a solitary, fleeting moment, the universe was absolutely, perfectly silent

As if muted in awe

~EvincarOfAutumn Sep 24, 2009, 6:00:52 AM

Miminies aren't much of a challenge. They're basically emoticons, just drawn in a certain style. Although presumably drawing 5000 of anything has a certain level of difficulty to it.

Maybe a 125x40 or 100x50 pixel art piece, which would contain 5000 pixels.

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