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Heys. I am Aidi. I like futuristic stuff. Hey wassup.

Today I thought I should play World of Warcraft. I play as a hunter. Cool.

I also finished Magister’s Terrace. I got an achievement while I was there. Superb man.

Wow this female NPC is hot, I'm going to take a snapshot. Sounds like fun.

Sure.

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Exploring the mountains and valleys of Tomb Raider

There's a lot to see in Tomb Raider. At any time, I could just lay back and admire the breathtaking views. And when I was ready, I was free to roam the world. Of swimming beneath the wide open sea to discover a hidden cave nearby, of which I entered, deeper and deeper until Lara Croft could no longer hold her breath. Later I find myself lurching though the warm dense jungles which occupies down between sloping mountains. There was also some good dose of gunfights. To deal with the heat, I had to guide Lara Croft into various acrobatic moves to find the best position. There were also some intense moments when I violated the octopus’s lair and agitated its denizens. It was a satisfying experience, worth spending the 12 or so hours.

KL Design Week? More like KL Design Strong!

It’s all graphic design in KL Design Week but I went still. Sure, 3D animation and storytelling are my greatest passions in the creative arts but I have always had a soft spot for graphic design.

Just wanted to take a quick peek at this event and decided to just go for only one of their many open exhibitions. I picked the one in CapSquare as I’ve heard so much hype about the place, so I thought I should use this opportunity to check out the place as well.

At the small park beside CapSquare’s main complex are some creative works dedicated to the idea of recycling. Here artsy tents are placed amidst twenty plus mock trees which has bags (as in anti plastic bags bags) hung on its branches. Every bag has its own design.

Inside the main complex are 3 floors of various artists’ works. Apparently CapSquare does not have a real atria so the exhibition was placed around the central escalators instead.

Boxy Bats by Roomism.

Each one for Daim, Hazmer, and Dzaid. Hey how about me? No fair.

Ah never mind I’ll just take these two elegant damsels.

I have never heard of USM having an art school but just check out this work by a graduate theirs, Leong Eng Kit. It certainly proves that it’s a promising art school in the making.

Just next to this was an exhibit showcasing augmented reality work. Pictured in the badly taken photo above is Anwar, the head of the augmented reality development in USM. What is augmented reality about? Well to put it quite simply: the technology to see 3d rendered item as though they are placed right in front of you. So even if you move around the 3d item will shift correctly in perspective. You have to wear special glasses to see it work.

USM wasn’t the only one showcasing their graduates work. Here at the other end of the corner were some batik designs by Norhafiezzah, a graduate of Malaysia Institute of Art (MIA).

Of course The One Academy was here too. Oh wait did somebody scribbled MAD RULEZ in the corner there? Heh just kidding.

A blatant attempt at copying somebody else’s idea. But I won’t mention which college did this.

Hey check out the red dude getting struck by lightning.

Apples were blooming inside one exhibit. Konichiwa from Japan---the only foreign independent artist here. Unfortunately she’s not fluent in English and she barely understands what I say. There goes my opportunity to ask her about her obsession with apples. But she did give me this free postcard.

I wanted to take a photo of her with her work but she was too shy. That’s pretty impressive; she has only been here for several days and already she picked up a Malaysian trait.

Some architectural stuff going on as well.

Some are selling merchandise on the spot. The Genesis Culture seen here stood out for me. What it aims to do is promote the works of local illustration artists, including selling shirts of their artworks. The marketing guy there explains that these artists aren’t really design artists by career but have an uncanny skill in drawing. He then proceeded to ask me to support them by buying one of their T-shirt which costs RM50. I couldn’t bring myself to pay that much so I just smiled at him.

Malaysia certainly has some promising talents and hopefully we will be internationally recognised for our creativity one day. Went home to find the parking at CapSquare costing me RM4.00 for a stay of about 1 hour and 25 minutes, which was alright. That pretty much sums up my KL Design Week experience. Day experience. A day of the week experience. Never mind.

Blog’s 1 year anniversary

Thought I should revamp the design a little, considering it has been one year past since the blog’s first post. Didn’t do anything drastic, partly because I find myself busy with work nowadays, and partly because I wanted to retain some (/most?) of the feel from the old design.

Hope you guys like it.

Bye-bye Purple Flame

Yep, you read it right. I’ve quitted Purple Flame.

Thanks to my ex bosses, Shaa and Rogue, for giving me the opportunity to work there.

And also thanks to my ex co-workers: Nazim, Man, Mclelun, Ophelia, Sheila, Mira, Nisa, Syac, and Starry.

Minta maaf kepada kedua-dua boss dan rakan-rakan sekerja sekiranya saya ada lakukan apa-apa kesilapan semasa di Purple Flame.

Later dudes.

Attended some creative stuff

Hmmm wondering on whether I should post this one up, considering this is kinda boring compared to what the other dudes are attending: Hazmer’s Anime Festival, or Daim’s Pixar Festival, or Mclelun’s KLPac Festival. But considering this blog could use some update, I decided to at least make a short post about it.

So I went to this thing called MSC Malaysia Creative Industry Dialogue in Technology Park. Well yeah it’s not a festival or anything happening. Just some session where industry guys talk. It’s alright. The session saw the people behind the series of Saladdin presenting their production pipeline. It’s mostly general stuff, things that 3d people already know. The talk does not go into the detail of things perhaps in favour of educating people who were completely clueless about 3d production.

Well perhaps I should share of the new things I learn from there. The animation company, Young Jump Animation, has some tricks to share during the dialogue. For instance, to cater multiple scenes of a city, all the guys had to do was model a handful of buildings and rearrange them for different scenes. It works for a tv series I guess (and games I think). To handle large crowds while that, they use morphing technique to create quick variations, that is, they model a character with two different facial features but with the same number of vertices and use whatever model that will form from the result of the morphing between the two and...

Reader: BORING! I’m off to reading more exciting events that other people have attended!

Seeds marked for removal

The novel Seeds will be removed in about a week’s time. I hope everyone who wanted to read it have done so. Else, you may quickly save the remaining chapters to read it later.

It’s been real great sharing this story with all of you who were interested, and I thank you once again for your support towards this novel.

Perhaps Seeds is better off as an animated feature film as I had originally intended it to be. The timing of it is all wrong I suppose, considering that I am not mature enough to handle such a heavy story; right now I should be working on stories that have a younger vibe to it. Hopefully the story of Alia is not forever lost. God willing, it will resurface again many years later.