Create for Creation’s Sake, Please
Posted on March 3, 2008
Filed Under Culture
from the department of we-will-only-do-it-if-it-gives-us-some-return
Does Singapore have the capacity to produce anime, creative pieces of claymations, digital cartoons and traditional animations? Sure, we can. Only if it is related to making money or National Education. Sit on the bus or just search for those NE Animations and you will see various students’ work on why we should all band together as countrymen, unite as one, fight for the common good and be a part of total defence.
This is all good and dandy. Some of the animations’ quality are remarkable. However, why don’t we see this type of effort for just, you know, plain cool kickass stuff? Like ninjas having a showdown while the first light of dawn breaks? Why is that if we have to do something creative, it must be national education related or rake in large amount of money?
Look at the news for games industry and animation, and it’s always about the big studios coming in and we are working together with them to produce entertainment. Wait a moment here - do we need them to create entertainment? Must everything we do have a budget of five digits in millions? (and perhaps returns ten times that amount?). Why aren’t there more people who create entertainment in their free time, instead of waiting for big budget studios to come? Why aren’t there more people creating fun stuff, despite knowing that they won’t get anything back in return? Why don’t we just create with what resources we have, instead of wanting the sky and everything even before we learn how to be creative? And how is Singapore going to have an entertainment industry if people are not willing to create just for mere passion alone? You cannot transplant a tree if you don’t have soil in the first place.
We seem to be stuck in a mode of “do it only if it yields returns” or “only if it has some educational purpose”. Even our movies can be seemed as cultural propaganda which “sells” Singapore and presents it as more exotic and weirder than it is. Can’t we just, you know, do something fun, normally?
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i think asking someone to create something out of mere passion and not receive any salary from the effort is like nuts.. the only interesting part of our entertainment industry is perhaps the lil comedy sitcoms across the channels.. otherwise, most of the other drama/games/kids productions are basically all similar or predictable eh?
Kinda sad really, how our game and kids show take after those already played in taiwan or us etc. or how some drama/show scenario’s either a rip off or slight mod of another foreign ones..
I guess 1 of the few rare moments where we have people producing something out of sheer passion is where we take part in competitions? Maybe can go visit CGOverdrive this year.. i wonder how many local entries will there be. And how many are not student’s entries (forced by school to submit).
i quit working to do something fun normally and people say i am nuts. lol~ So there you go. People here are just out to earn as much money as possible, without caring if they have a live. They believe, “customers/superiors are always right” and therefore kiss their asses, and in return provide shit services for they’re truly just unhappy to be forced to serve like a whore. it’s like natural.. that’s when people like me gets branded lazy/crazy/daring.. -_-”
And why aren’t local CGOverdrive entries featured on tv?! Just because they carry no teach-the-people message?? haiz.. we have so many arts schools in sg.. but do the top students work appear on tv or something? Oo” nope. all foreign shows. But then again, if all local shows are going to be a mere copy of foreign ones, then i guess i’d rather they just keep it this way~ -_-”
sorry for ranting.. ^^”
See Battleship Forever
http://www.wyrdysm.com/games.php
Created by Singaporean, nominated as a finalist in International Game Festive, free of charge.
If one have the passion, you will create it for yourself without the need of salary. Who paid those guys on YouTube to do all those funny videos?
Rather, the question to ask, if one have the free time, why don’t he create, instead of just mere consume?
Okay lah okay lah, I cannot tahan already.
When I get my billion dollars from my businesses, I will freely throw money at any creative and technical mind in Singapore who can truly develop and manifest the story ideas I have in my head every single second of my waking life.
So anyone want to pre-book your place first?