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Talent and Creativity is a great topic to discuss,
personally I think talent can only take you so far in life you mostly have to
grind and work hard to achieve anything worthwhile, and by talent I mean how
good you are at something without working hard towards it, you may just be naturally
gifted at playing tennis or drawing. Sure it’s a great starting point but
there’s a long way to go from there.
Creativity on the other hand is a bit different, I think
creativity is the ability to do something unique, something out of the box that
no one has thought of before or heard of. I think it is harder to be creative
than anything else these days because a lot of idea’s have been exhausted, but
then I’m not really thinking outside of the box am I? So is there a whole load
of more stuff I can think of to do or create? I’m sure there is. It’s just
getting there that’s the difficult part.
I don’t think all artists are born with special talent or
anything like that, most of them are just very poor/average when they start of,
it takes them years of practice and dedication for them to get like that. Of
course this applies to everyone. So I don’t think talent is interchangeable
with skill for this reason.
There’s a great video about Will Smith, and the secrets
to his success on YouTube, it’s just clips of him in interviews, but he does a
great job of explaining that success and creativity isn’t just magic, it takes
years of hard work.
There is also a cool documentary on neuroscience. That
explains that you can train your brain to change and literally master anything
you want to. It’s called neuroplasticity. In the video they use an example of a
boy who absolutely hated doing maths and was really bad at it, but with time
and effort, he changed and became a very famous mathematician.
On to the topic of creativity, our whole civilisation was
created by creativity by individuals who thought outside of the box. It’s what
lead to video gaming of course. But how do you become creative?
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In the games industry, I don’t think there are set people
that are just creative themselves, like the concept artists or producers, I
think there is a chance for everyone to become creative, from the programmers,
artists, all the way to the people who manage the financial side of the
company.
It just depends on
what they do, if try something new and creative for example, if someone learns
how to create a better code or learns how to programme everything on the game
faster or if the producer/developer comes up with an idea that’s totally new
and different to anything that’s been done before then that is being creative.
Minecraft is a great example of how a game has manifested
creativity, no one has ever seen such a simple idea implemented so well so far
in the industry, and because of its adaptability with mods and add-ons as well
as its dynamic world it’s become incredibly successful.
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Even Blizzard Entertainments introduction to Battlenet is
a great example of creativity, back in the day there was a long process if you
wanted to connect through the internet to play with anyone else. Blizzard
introduced a service called Battlenet that automatically built a connection
between you and a different player from across the world with the click of a
button, which incredibly boosted their status and sales, it revolutionised
internet gaming and player vs player.
It’s everyone’s job to be creative in my opinion, or else
there wouldn’t be any significant progress if the same people are always trying
to be creative. There needs to be fresh minds and new approaches to being
creative, because that’s what it’s all about.
“In order to be creative, you need to be able to view
things in new ways or from a different perspective. Among other things, you
need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives.”
Being creative as an artist is I think the same as being
creative as a programmer or a musician you just need to think of ideas outside
of the box. Obviously you should train hard and practice your craft and learn
from other successful professional artists, all the while trying to develop
your own style and sense of creativeness.
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