What’s My Passion?
If someone would ask me what my
passion is, I would instantly be stumped; it’s not something I can sum up in a
small matter of words. As seen in the mind map provided in the original
homework assignment tab, passion can consist of many different feelings and
goals. It can be broken down into what I would like to call, an organization
and understanding of a person’s inner feelings. Though I made my presentation
in class, I still am not 100 percent sure what my passion really is. I am aware
of how I got where I am, what my motivation was, and what I’m hoping for in the
future.
It all started when I was just a
little boy and for the first time I had seen the movie Disney’s Dumbo, that
movie with the baby elephant trapped in the circus with his family and had the
giant ears. What was so special about this movie? It really captured my
attention with the story and the music and even the funny comedic events that
would amuse a small child. This eventually led me to begging my parents to buy
or rent movies at the time on VHS. We only had one television set that the time
in our house so I would usually end up watching with my older brother and
mother. Throughout the years we would eventually watch every animated Disney
film that came out, including Bambi, Peter Pan, Robin Hood, The Lion King and
my personal favourite, Aladdin. As I got older I would go steal a sheet of
blank paper from my dad’s printer and start drawing the characters from the
movies that I watched. They weren’t the greatest drawings but it was something
that I really enjoyed and gradually got better at. I would always grab the
giant chart paper and chunky markers in kindergarten and try drawing some kind
of low quality cartoon. Things escalated a lot more as I got older as I had a
heavy interest in cartoons; from movies to comics to little three frame ones in
the newspaper.
It was then as a kid when my
parents asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, and I said I wanted to
make a cartoon television show. A nice childhood dream most would think, but
things slowly became more difficult. As I went through elementary school, I would
see students who overachieved and generally output much greater quality work
than I could have ever done. My mind was not really focused on school and my
marks would often just be average or below. Other life scenarios relating to passion
interfered with the career goal as well.
I had eventually just drawn myself fully into
video games. I had been as a child always originally watching my brother play
Super Mario Brothers 3 on NES. We eventually owned everything that came out by
combining Christmas presents and birthday gifts. Super Nintendo had me almost
fully obsessed with the Donkey Kong Country series as well as a lot of the
fighting games such as Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Nintendo 64 and
Playstation had the greatest effect on me, when I first got the Legend of
Zelda: Ocarina of Time, where I became so amazed by the stories that I went
back and tracked all the previous ones. Other games like Kingdom Hearts and
especially Final Fantasy X, really got me into video games. I decided during
that high school time that I would try and become an animator, whether it was
creating a memorable character that everyone knows and loves like Mario, or
just being part of something as memorable as an animated movie.
It’s interesting to see what the
gaming industry is going to look like in about 5 years. After viewing the
provided video on the Oculus Rift, I actually got really excited; it’s taken
something simple like a movement control as shown in the Doom demo and made it
really simple and realistic. The IGN representative from the video even stated
how once he had worn the device, it felt almost natural. I am kind of worried
though if things become too interactive mainly since I’ve always felt the love
and need to use a controller when playing games. I do not have a huge interest
in movement games and devices like the Kinect or the Playstation Move. The
Oculus Rift seems like something I’d be really in to because I can use it
alongside controller. One thing I really do hope for in the future of gaming is
to see the hologram technology that one of the people talked about, that would
be really interesting in the world of online multiplayer gaming. I have been
heavily involved in a lot of MMO games in the past and I’ve really enjoyed it.
Though as I get older I doubt I’d ever really have the time to go about such
things. The kids of the future will be delighted with the new technology coming
out.
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