Yitting

I actually never thought I would dedicate a post to her, but Yitting has kinda earned my respect. Aside from the Director, she's one of the few lecturers that genuinely care about her students' future prospects.

The ensuing drama following Jeremiah's petition letter to the Director is still set to brew, considering that Mr Lau said that indeed there were 'misconceptions while conceiving this course'. I was obviously very worried about the credibility of this diploma and secondly the relevancy of what I'm learning. Yitting helped alleviate some of my concerns with today's one-on-one dialogue session.

I asked her if I had to get a degree (in the Games Design field) to improve my employability, and she was nearly engulfed in disgust at the fact that I thought a degree was important. She felt that a degree was 99.8% unimportant in terms of employability, but crucial (if not mandatory) if applying for teaching or other government-related occupations. I really don't know if I want to take a degree still. I hope I could get one, not just for the sake of the degree, but learning other stuff and enjoying my youth more at the same time. However, Yitting mentioned that I should _only_ seek college in the US or Japan. I highly doubt Japan is viable considering I don't speak the language or am a FF/anime specialist. The US ends up being very viable but yeh the cost of a degree would be beyond ridiculous. My parents do say that they will pay for varsity, but I really don't want to waste that kind of money... Unless of course I get a scholarship somehow...

For one, at least we're doing Maya because that's _THE_ industry-standard. She expressed her extreme shock that the school actually fitted the PCs with Maya because the cost of each copy is a whopping US$3000.

To be honest, I don't exactly know what field I wish to spec into. The 6 main expertises according to Yitting are: Rigging (skeletonizing), Environment/Landscape design, Texturing, Animation, Storyboarding and Modelling. 4/6 of these specs are literally Maya and Maya only, and that's quite worrying because I'm still not good with Maya...

I'm most interested in Character Design and Development. I hope I can just specialize my efforts into character design, that is, a 2D digitalized sketch translated into a model. I'm most likely going to spam character design for my portfolio... Go Leo!!!!!!!!!!!!! keke ^_~