A Fresh Look

To start off what feels, strangely, nothing at all like a new life.

It’s been more than half a year since I last worried about tanks and treads, and as one might expect, there are quite a few updates that have transpired since I last bothered to update this section of the Internet. For starters, the theme has changed.

This iteration of Harsh has actually been ready for about 5 months, give or take; I just couldn’t be bothered to code it into a WordPress template. However, as I will have very little time from here out to update the site, I gave in and spent the whole day smashing in the template, wrecking my previous philosophies about semantic markup and elegant solutions in the process. Indeed, I don’t even think this layout is cross-browser compliant. But seriously, IE can fuck off.

So most people like me who’ve just gotten out of their National Service probably spend their time working part-time or just lazing around until the start of their respective educational courses. I originally wanted to be part of the latter group, but my parents weren’t having any of that. A few strings pulled later, I found myself at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, as my brand-spanking new resume shows.

I was there for 2 months, during which I learned how to hate the Macintosh Operating System, along with Final Cut Pro. But at least I got some fame and fortune out of it, since it was a temporary position compared to an internship. Basically it just meant I was receiving around double what I would have gotten otherwise. Also, the banner I did for them was at the booth for SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009!

How awesome was it to have a banner that I basically just ctrl-c’ed and ctrl-v’ed in Photoshop shown at such an event? So awesome.

Anyway, after that mindless Photoshop automaton experience, I immediately got to work at my new company, Mikoishi Studios. Since I’m still interning there at this very moment, I guess I probably shouldn’t write too much about what I’m doing until the project nears a more polished state of completion. However, I will say that it’s probably been the best working experience I’ve ever had or heard about so far (Apart from Google, I guess). It’s hard to beat 2 hour-lunch breaks and an art director who’s best described as perpetually insane.

And in the midst of all this, I got a letter last week stating that my application for a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts in Production Animation has actually been accepted by DigiPen USA. Basically, I had applied for both the Singapore and US campuses previously, but the Singapore campus suddenly had a change of rules and starting only accepting students with prior diplomas/experience, thus leaving students like me with only their GCE ‘A’ level educational certificates out in the cold.

So, I guess I’m going to Redmond. Which is both excellent and absolutely terrifying, as this means I have to rush about a billion things, including my passport, my visa, my accommodation, my logistics and my pre-semester assignment before I can even start to think about breathing normally.

Tl;dr: I’m free! …work, work, work, probably going to study programming in Singapore, what’s this in the mail, HOLY SHIT YES, HOLY SHIT NO I have to prepare a million things.

Yea. I’ll find some time to write more about my internship though, because what I’ve been working on over the past few months is pretty breathtaking. I just hope the rest of the world thinks the same way when it finally sees the light of day.

   

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