#creative decisions

The nature of the music industry is unbridled, limited only by the creative decisions of each individual artist Undoubtedly, common themes and procedures are shared between artists during their rollout of music because of what is deemed successful and industry standards by labels. The repeated efforts include; a year of writing and producing music and a year of releasing and touring; that way, they remain current and cement themselves in the musical atmosphere.

However, in a modern context, artists have begun breaking out of this systematic shackle, as the pressures of pumping out genuine expression within a fixed timeframe have slowly decline the authenticity of music. a frontrunner in this rebellion is Kanye West.

It is definite that you, the reader, have a capacity of knowledge about who Kanye is from a fan, acquaintance, or dislike perspective. That is because he has secured his character around the world through various identifiable traits.

The hype and controversy of Kanye obtained new heights following the release of his highly anticipated album ‘DONDA’, which serves as a musical ode to West’s late mother. He describes the album as the body of work that allowed him to finally grieve the loss of her, despite her passing away in 2007. Reminiscent of his childhood and growing up in the eyes of the Lord, West chose to produce ‘DONDA’ in 7 days as the bible depicts the world being created within the same timeframe.

Instead of using a fancy studio and the highest equipment money can buy, West quarantined himself during the production to allow for no interruption between him and his thoughts. His creative decisions took an odd turn when he began his listening parties at the Mercedes Benz Stadium, as he exploited the album to take a stance on societal issues.

Crudely using the party as a way to publicly endorse DaBaby (Currently facing backlash for his hateful words against the lgbtqia+ community) and stand up for Marilyn Manson (Currently facing multiple allegations of Sexual Abuse against Women).

Many found this decision distasteful as not only does it perpetuate violence, but weaponises the memory of his mother as propaganda to discredit the allegation that his friends are currently facing. Even the recording label that stood behind all of Kanye’s previous releases wanted to break the affiliation between Kanye and the public enemies of DaBaby and Marilyn Manson. They chose to block DaBaby’s verse from the track ‘Jail pt.2’ and released the album without any approval or correlation from Kanye.

During this project, every moment we are making decisions, and those decisions reflect on project production. I believe it is efficient to evaluate all possibilities of decision. I have ever chosen one methodology of production without thinking deeper. When I did it awhile, I found something was hard to get over. I totally waste time on this poor decision. So, I prefer to do a small test, before I have to make a decision to secure no issues with the results.

I didn't have many vital decisions on production. I literally follow the standard animation workflow and keep work and familiar with this procedure. Knowing the accurate workflow can help me complete the first step to near the animation industry. I think making good use of Reference function in MAYA is the most accurate decision in this project. Take details in Maya file management, I model and rig 3D characters and scenarios separately. When I start doing animate stuff, I create a new and empty Maya file, then using Reference function to import rigs and scenarios. In other words, I set these rigs and scenarios as reference files. Reference make original file linking within a new Maya scene file. It's an efficient way to manage files and I am able to freely animate rigs in new scene files without messing up original reference files. If I want to edit rigs or models again, I don’t need to modify them in every scene file where I put them in. I only need to modify the original reference files, then other scene files will renew the adjustment immediately. Therefore, this decision helps me saving time and well-arranging files.

In terms of the creative decision aspect, I mostly focus on Renderers and Rendering techniques. Although the lighting is not the focus on this project, it still has impacts on the way to present artefact. The reason why I take it seriously is that It's hard to calculate the exact total rendering workloads and time. It relies on the rendering environment and the number and quality of computers. Due to the expectations from the planning folder and lockdown circumstance, I have to make a detailed plan on rendering.

The Thoughts Process of Decision is label below.

V-ray Arnold Asking Renderfarm assistance (reply slowly) time restriction on rendering Playblast (without lighting)

Taking to unlockdown condition, I might say it is a nice situation for rendering and the well visual presentation of the project. So, I consider choosing an appropriate renderer. Arnold and V-ray are the most popular renderer options in the industry. When I struggled with the best option, I set a situation where render low poly as a smooth mesh model. Then, I carried out a small experiment for both renderers' ability. It's interesting that they can both achieve the result I want. That means no problems will occur on future rendering and I can free to select renderers. Finally, I think I can use Arnold due to my preference and an early lighting suggestion from Professor Neil. Next, after I ensure the renderer choice, I consider the time restriction in this project and render equipment. The consideration goes back to lockdown circumstance.

During lockdown conditions, there are no physical render computers to assist. Render is long progress. It's rarely accomplished by one render equipment. The time restriction really impacts rendering choice a lot. I have heard from Ian that Uni might reopen 1B09 for us. I was excited about that news. Unfortunately, Technical Officer Jack told us that we only could work remotely and use remote access to control the Uni computer. Because I saw a render farm discussion on Discord chat group and renderfarm is provided by University, I asked to renderfarm assistance. However, a few days passed, the reply is that university systems being updated for the upcoming academic year and it is no longer provide Arnold as a renderer. In order to complete the project on time. I quit the high-quality rendering. Thus, In this case, I need an alternative Renderer which can render quicker. Then, I got Playblast. Playblast is a preview render in MAYA. Although Playblast only provides low-quality render and can’t present lighting effects it helps to achieve results I want in the short term. After detailed consideration under several factors, I finally use Playblast to render.

The intersection of here and now: a status update collage

Ah, possibility. Which spoke to choose?

Words + art

Almost all of us, whether involved in a creative endeavor or not, find concentration elusive these days. Even those blessed with circumstances that allow us to weather the pandemic in relative ease are not immune from the world’s collective grief. And that is a hard place to be.

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I’m not gonna spend to much time on it since I have some other projects waiting for me so I hope to get things done until May including artworks. I like the cover art I made for the first version so I’m gonna re-use it.

and here’s me and my dog during quarantine afternoon chilling time. hope everyone’s safe. stay inside if you can and get creative (:

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