Mentor meeting 01

I am so glad to have my first meeting with David Lobser. He gave me so many insightful ideas that I never thought before. At the beginning, I introduced my background and manifest my prototype. First, my idea was user observes the ecosystem. He gave me different direction of user interaction. He said user can perform different emotions(chopping, hitting, etc) to corresponding emotion creatures in order to turn the bad emotion be harmonious. This will be easier for user to gain and translate the information. Otherwise, if I keep my original  concept, He suggested me think about what is the attraction of each emotion. Second, he gave me some ideas of the looking of creature(wearing mask, branch, etc). Last, he asked me to write a reference stack which contain the style, mood(per emotion), technique, shape, etc that I want to use. Except the discussion about my thesis’ content, he also talked the purpose of my thesis. If I want it to be my portfolio project, I need to show off my skill or creativity as much as possible. I also asked him about career suggestion and my confusion about how to be a creative programming artist, and he answered me that as an artist, creativity is very important so to some extend, i can spend more time on thinking about creative concept rather than digging into the math or algorithm. Overall, This meeting it is super helpful for me and I am really grateful for David’s suggestions.