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Thesis Selection Dilemma
Feedback from Sara Wade: Artist Influences paper
How did your peers plan to use those resources? - I am curious how these resources will play into your thesis topic about web based game pitches. TO be honest, the thesis topic seems to stray away from what your portfolio currently focuses on (characters, rigs, art) and toward something else (web design, interactive presentation) but maybe this is intentional if you are looking to broaden or change your career focus.
My response to Sara:
You’re absolutely right, my portfolio and influences paper are focused on character art. The interesting thing is I’m usually very decisive and never get caught up like this, but I’m struggling to tie myself down to a thesis topic. On one hand I have a clear idea about how I think one can utilize their game documentation as a web based presentation tool, and how an interactive user driven exploration of the documentation is the best method to documenting and sharing ones game design and pitch. I feel like this is straightforward and has a reasonable scope. Not to mention I believe this project will give me the opportunity to utilize my own thoughts on the matter as a way to get funding for a personal project. But again, you are right in that this thesis will put my focus primarily on web design and interactive presentation, which is not really what I’m interested in pursuing as a career.
On the other hand my passion is in character design, particularly 3D character development. Narrowing my earlier purposed thesis on this topic would allow me to delve deeper into my interests and polish my portfolio simultaneously. The problem with this direction is I have a broad subject and I’m not clear on how I can narrow it and make it a more manageable task. I really like the thought of developing a website dedicated to breaking down the process of 3D character creation and how it pertains to our industry. But like you’ve previously stated, my thesis topic still needs direction. The resources I utilized for my artistic influences paper are defiantly more in line with my Character design thesis topic and my personal goals as well. I’m beginning to think I need to change directions yet again and narrow my character design topic to a more manageable scope.