Independent Project? Who, What, Why?

2020 really caught me off guard with not only Miss Rona's world tour that happened to put everything on hold, but also this independent project that came way earlier than expected. Well, when life gives me lemon I just have to eat it, I'm lazy for all that juice making.

This introduction blog post might be a lengthy one because I do enjoy writing. If I was a fish, then this blank text page shall be my ocean. Yikes, cringy. But if any lecturers or even Tatsun is reading this, please let me ramble and be funny for a bit. I won't be able to do this by Week 12 where it's the official week of me losing my mind. Anyhow, getting back to the independent project. This caught me off guard because I am so used to assignment briefs written with instructions so specific that I sometimes despise them. But THIS independent project brief is the complete opposite. This is one huge lemon.

So, we can choose literally anything to do, any digital media artifact. I chose to do Augmented Reality mobile application because honestly speaking, I'm either not THAT interested in projection mapping/animation or I'm tired of the usual mobile/web design. So AR it is: new, challenging, never done before - in my case. Trying a new lemon on my own. But on a serious note, I am aware that as this is a brand new challenge for me, it's going to be exceptionally time consuming, considering how I need to learn how to use designated software and how there are many extra stuffs to do, I really am trying to get back on track ASAP. My main goals for this semester is more self discipline, better time management and all that jazz so I can be better, in general. Let's not get too personal here :'(

My fingers have been flying across the keyboard at a very fast speed throughout this entire blog post because as I said, I enjoy writing, but at the same time I'm also trying to control myself and not insert too much irrelevant crap in this, not risking my bag for a moment of joy. However, this doesn't really make sense. I'm in the creative industry, what's the point of stopping myself from being a little bit more creative in my own blog? Not gonna lie, other than just being subtly funny, I still have a lot of deep thoughts in my brain, which I might mention in the coming posts. Big brain time uh huh.

To summarize this in a more serious tone, I chose to do AR mobile app for my independent project and it's going to be hard. But I believe that nothing's better than acknowledging my own flaws and weak points and start improving from there.

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