Creativity is something that allows us to solve a problem or make up something that is new as a form of entertainment etc. Creativity is the way we perceive something, ideas generate from things round us or what’s just in our heads (on the mind). I believe that talent doesn’t exist; maybe people are just lucky at what they do or just have their own way/style of doing something that is good. Just because a person is said to be good at something doesn’t necessarily make them creative. When we look at Art for example, people can just pick up a paint brush and colours and make something, weather it is good or not is judged by others around them, a person that knows nothing about Art should not be looked at in the way that they could not ever do it, because anything is possible. It wasn’t so long ago we looked at the ‘talent myth’ and hard graft, and what you have to look at is that a so called ‘talented’ person is producing a piece of work that is to a ‘high quality’ where as a person that works hard will achieve the high quality outcome but however it may take them longer and they may take another route about it.
Look at our course for example; it is set up in a way that it teaches you about perspective straight off the bat, immediately from learning about perspective I became better drawing, drawing objects and environments and even organic shapes that I may have struggled with in the past. I believe anyone who doesn’t know a thing about Art could easily come onto this course and succeed with a degree by the end of it weather they have college and school qualifications or not. Building your skills from level 1 to 100 can be done in no time as long as you work hard.
Building up skills to create things is the way forward to get better at something, take 3DS Max for example, I had barely touched a 3D program in my life before it and now I can pretty much make anything I want and throw it into a game engine. Once you have a basic knowledge of something it’s all about taking the time to learn the advanced techniques, once you become better at something the possibilities start to open up more of what you can do and thus stimulates the creativeness that can be brought about by it.
Gaming is an outcome of creativity; you only have to walk into a entertainment shop to see what creativity is, whether it’s through gaming, music or film etc. What’s displayed on the shelves is the outcome of creativity. Creativity is allows you to either limit yourself to something or enhance what it is you have, for example you can build upon what you’ve got for example a video game can be made better by fixing, adding or taking out things within it, so I wouldn’t say it’s limited. The whole team that works on a video game has got a creative job, because each person whether they are a designers, Artist, programmer, musician etc has a creative job on at hand to produce (or in other words make up) something that is going to be a part of the game itself, so ideas (creativity) come about to make it happen.
I think creativity in gaming is not just about how it’s made however I think that even the players themselves can have an impact on creativity in the actual gameplay themselves. I remember once watching something on TV about the game Spore. Spore is basically a monster creator (as far as I’m aware) and basically they had millions of people all over the world creating monsters that the actual designers of the game couldn’t even think of themselves. In which proves games allow the player to be creative just as an example it shows how games are creative.
Like I explained in one of my previous blogs I said how Super Mario Galaxy used that odd physics engine, Nintendo never cease to amaze me by what new thing they can come up with next, looking at how they used a touch screen to play games and now we have motion plus to play them they really have always shined above the rest to me.
Miyamto the creator of Mario, Donkey Kong and Legend of Zelda etc have all been hugely successful and show different ideas and styles throughout which is extremely creative, you could say that Nintendo are a company that experiment on video games and they do it right.
I think that being an Artist, you are creative in the way that you express your ideas through drawing them which is a creative process. When you think of an idea you convey it on paper or to a canvas, I would like my ideas or creativity to be acknowledged by other in that they are possibilities in a development process to a final outcome or to see a meaning behind it. I am definitely skilful and not talented as I said it doesn’t exist to be successful in the gaming industry I would say that you need to have ideas and put them into practise as it’s essentially all about development and of course be hard working.
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