Blender – Ideal Platform for learning 3D ?

Posted in Thoughts  by: admin
December 26th, 2009

According to the Straits Time July 11, 2009 D1, the Singapore Government has set aside more than $1 billion for the next five years to turn Singapore into an international media powerhouse.
I am just wondering, how can Open Source applications such as Blender help in raising the interest in digital media stuffs. For one, commercial [...]

Nice visual is not the same as production feasibility

Posted in Thoughts  by: admin
December 11th, 2009

Having worked in the Design Industry and the Academic environment in the local scene, I have found that it is not easy for a student to clearly understand what it is like to be a practicing Industrial/Product Designer.
The emphasis between a design student and a practicing designer do not necessarily overlap nicely. It must be [...]

Economy depends on Ecology

Posted in Thoughts  by: admin
March 31st, 2009

Just some rambling here. Nothing definitive.
Finance and economy are aspects of life peculiar to human beings. Because of that we tend to assume that economy is not related to things of the natural world. This is far from the truth. Bad ecology will affect the economy.
Why is that so? This is because we require natural [...]

My Blender 3D Wishlist

Posted in Thoughts  by: admin
February 7th, 2009

Blender 3D is a great open source 3D program. I love this software. However, there are a couple of things that I hope that it can do better. Below is my wish list. If future versions of Blender can fulfill this wishlist, it will be perfect (to me). I guess human greed knows no bound.

1. [...]

Can product designs buy you happiness?

Posted in Thoughts  by: admin
November 27th, 2008

In many feel-good advertisements, there is often the portrayal of happy faces associated with the usage of the product being advertised. You see happy and satisfied faces in advertisements for cars, home appliances and all kinds of products. Having being a teaching staff, I also often hear students saying that they want to design products [...]