A “Foody” Opinion!

By Jame Ball

Right now as I type this, I am sitting down at my computer munching away at an obligatory Grand Final Day Aussie Sausage Sizzle. As I do this, I’m thinking “I don’t even like AFL that much at all I don’t get why this is SO much more important than say issues like where is all of the funding for creative Australian industries gone to?” but that’s another topic for a different time and a different place. On second thoughts however, they were some really darn nice sausages. I just pulled the packaging out of the bin and apparently they are Ground Beef and Caramelized Onion flavour. See, I’m an Omnivore! 

Image 1 - Sausage

Since I’m on this tangent of Food and not yet on a tangent of what I learnt this week let’s talk about Mince Meat. The type you get from Coles or Woolies. I remember a time when the Mince Meat you got from the shops was in fact minced down into thousands of tiny little pieces. But no, now when you get minced meat and you may as well call it meat Spaghetti because when you take that stuff out of its pack you better remember to break it thoroughly apart because if you don’t then you're getting Mexican style Beef Spaghetti Nachos, which now I’ve said that doesn’t actually sound to bad.

Continuing on, this week I found out that I do not like doing Documentation. I can do it and I did do it but I still hate it. The 2 pieces of documentation that I was assigned were the Work Breakdown Structure and the Essential Milestones document. Both were describing and detailing a summary of our work flow for the next 13 weeks. I am probably going to sound silly but Is it just me, or is nearly every single piece of documentation our team has written up for this project just summarizing our work process for the next 13 weeks but in just a slightly different way each time? I think I want to cry now.

Image 2 - PBR Example

In class we got a very detailed tutorial session on how to think about edge loops when it came to organic modeling and an introduction to Physics Based Rendering or PBR and how to Incorporate it into a design workflow using a program called Quixel SUITE which is a Plugin for Photoshop CC specifically designed for a PBR workflow. This coming monday when I get paid, I will buying the academic version of the plugin and experimenting like hell to get to grips and get familiar with the software. You can learn more about it HERE!

Finally in My CIU this week, we went deeper into digital media. Our main in class discussion topic was “THE MEDIUM IS THE MEDIA”. The way I see this discussion topic is like this “what kind of response do I want to evoke with the chosen medium” and I going to be sticking with this for a while to come.

Lastly in a couple of hours I’m going out to the cinemas to go and see the new Ridley Scott Film The Martian. If it’s good enough I may even do a review but who knows.

As always, this is Ballzy247 signing out!

References

Image 1 ‐ Sausage ‐ Retrieved 03/10/2015 from ‐ http://junkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/sausage.jpg

Image 2 ‐ PBR Example ‐ Retrieved 03/10/2015 from ‐ http://www.marmoset.co/wp-content/uploads/header01.jpg