是平静的 像永恒的感觉
像摘取一些简单纯粹的果实
于是
坚持一件事情
像爱一个人一样
守护永恒的感觉
是平静的 像永恒的感觉
像摘取一些简单纯粹的果实
于是
坚持一件事情
像爱一个人一样
守护永恒的感觉
I am getting too comfortable in Boston
Like melting..
…
Unlike jumping and leaving in the past
This time, I can stay
After all, it’s the people that matters
…
Thought, Salt Lake City is lover
Her beauty is not comparable
While I’ve been struggling and deciding whether to reinvent the wheel for the production of the short film, or to use existing techniques, Christmas and New Year break helped me clear my mind, realizing that re-inventing the wheel would be time-consuming, even it’s what I really want to do. I have the responsibility to deliver the film one time 😉
I could do the two things simultaneously, by focusing on important things and delegating unnecessary works. Luckily the important things are what I love – research! Yay!
Via PhD or a startup, the focus is to take Expressive Graphics techniques to create animated short films.
Here is a list of pros and cons of choosing PhD or directly work on it alongside a full-time Software Engineer job:
Pros of PhD:
Cons of PhD:
Pros of working on the startup alongside full-time software engineer job:
Cons of working on the startup alongside full-time software engineer job:
The nature of invention is expressing the same thing in a different manner. This requires deep understanding of the subject. Some people invent purely from their own understanding, other expand their knowledge to gain deep understanding to facilitate the invention.
The better the understanding, the more likely the transformative impact of the invention.
Over the three-month brainstorming on story development with client, with laughs and frustrations, we eventually approached the expected feeling in an important morning in June, 2018 – “yep, that’s what we want J”.
Looking back, I feel two of the important things we did right are:
For the first item, it accepts the imperfection of the state of the story, which opens the door for inviting any possible ideas to fix the story. The second item, chains the first item as a series of actions to arrive the destination.
Although the methodology was effective for story development, it may be a good methodology for any complicated problem that is similar to story development. Because story development is a process whose result is difficult to foresee. During this process, a lot new ideas come in, which is unlikely to know in the beginning.
It has always been short time spent with Daddy. But your kindness has been growing in my heart for forever. It makes me be me. The freedom you gave me to be myself, the visit to your friend during his captivity to care about him when I was a kid, all formed the beauty in me. Thank you, Daddy~!
Him smiling in the twilight,
Then we synced.
…
The moment that’s called forever,
Breezed away the rainy dusts in me.
…
Thank you.
Everyone has the sense of aesthetics, which is enough to guide animated films. That’s beautiful.
Focusing on the technical side of developing animated films when working with the first client, it could easily forget my belief of founding Dopamine Animatic: animation could be purely guided by aesthetics, which exists in everyone. Dopamine Animatic is here to address technical difficulties, and facilitate the aesthetic in client’s mind. Here comes the question: how to avoid forgetting to ask client about aesthetic opinions, such as art directions of character style, color palette, dimension, and music?
In Dopamine Animatic, we work with client to develop the story, during which both the client and Dopamine Animatic obtain a deeper understanding of the story, as well as facilitate the sense of aesthetics for the film. It was not until a quiet evening that the client’s imagination of the art direction of the film as we discussed in the previous meeting came to my mind, and I found it is exactly the goal of Dopamine Animatic – take client’s sense of aesthetics to guide the art style of the film.
Thank to the quiet evening to pure the inspiration to my mind to answer the question: during each meeting, no matter how technical it is, always ask client’s opinion of anything related to the style, aesthetic of the film. That should be the default habit of Dopamine Animatic.
Morning conversation with Venture Cafe founder Andrew Singleton about Boston 2018 Pride Parade, pouring fresh joy of a ton sense of freedom to the day!
Colorful, bold expressiveness of themselves, the pride, LGBT!
Reminds me of SF, LA, NYC, Siggraph! All those breaks the peacefulness and boringness of Cambridge, MA
Thankful to the conversation that brings such a fresh opening of the day! And I can’t wait for the weekend camping with friends. YO! Summer time up up up!
