Nicholas Crutchfield
thegrowl
Published in
6 min readSep 30, 2016

--

Technological Design/Affects

Most of the things that people create later in life are based on what their childhood brought/meant to them. Human’s minds are different according to how they grew up and many other different ways. The designs and effects that people create change from person to person as some people have bright and lively designs/effects while others are dark and never seem to contain any joy at all. Effects and designs are hard to create if you want them too look real or look like they are alive. People who are able to create these things have put in the time and dedication to get where they are today as animation/design/effects are a booming business now in the era of technology. Do they do it because of their imagination or do they do it just to do it cause it’s their job? Or is it because they are dragged along in a never ending bandwagon effect? Everyone has their own ideas but are they willing to put them into the world is the main question. Technology is evolving so the effects and design that are being created are more and more intricate and thoughtful as you can almost create anything on a computer now. People are able to create dragons and other mythical creatures that have never actually been seen in this time era, but they can still create them with our imaginations and the tools to our disposal. Imagination is a great thing but can only blossom if it is allowed too. Anything you do in school is no imagination as it’s always the same for every child in the school when it’s their turn to sit at the computer. Most people don’t have the money to buy expensive computers but that still doesn’t stop them from working harder than most people with that kind of money. Their imagination expands as they experience things in wonder and don’t think of themselves as above or below it but as its equal. The imagination of everyone is great if it is left to bloom in its own way as everyone has a very unique personality.

The world today is really built on the people who have worked hard to get where they are, but there are still those who have the money and the power to make it seem as if they are above everyone else but they are not above anyone else. They are our equals but they believe they are not, the families who have started with nothing work and earn what it is they have, they deserve to let their imagination come forth and create whatever they want to compared to the money mind of rich and powerful families. The minds of the rich, the middle class, and the poor are completely different from one another. The rich do not explore anything as they do not have to go anywhere to experience everything because everything is brought to them. They have very little imagination besides about what to do with their money. The middle class has imagination as they have worked to get too where they are and have experience things other people will not experience. The poor do have imagination but they don’t have the means to experience what their imagination makes them believe they can. They have had misfortune fall onto them and it is a struggle to get out of that hole. They say everyone are equals but that is not completely true as money is the way of the world now and imagination is run by money as money=school=learning=a high paying job=more money.

Human’s minds often change as they get older which causes whatever they create to change. A person may change after a death or after a significant even in their life. They may change from creating darkness like fire and other dark things to creating light and joy with sunshine and sparkles. Playstation is a gaming platform that you can use to play games and view what other people have created. Now playstation is allowing streaming services on windows pcs according to slashdot.org. People can now add animation and effects according to their mood or whatever they believe is best put there at the time. But things are getting more and more expensive as electronics are getting increasingly expensive nowadays. Thus the difference between poor-middle class-rich is getting increasingly bigger as the rich can buy everything they want to, the middle class save over time and get what they want, and finally the poor are getting poorer as everything is more expensive. Thus imaginations that could bloom into great things will never get the chance to show off what they can imagine and create in their own world they created from the ground up. People also create programs or other computerized mechanics that do harmful things like steal money and files because they have the hatred of everyone else who has money but will not share it. They just want to cause problems and trouble for others according to computerhope.com. Thus people create whatever they want depending on how their mood is or how they grew up and what they have experienced all their lives. Most people also normally create what they believe their audience will want cause they love the attention they get because what they do is creative and beautiful according to scotthurff.com.

Special effects have always been evolving as everyone’s minds change over time from each generation to each generation generating more ideas. Many effects are there to confuse or to just test the way you think as certain items might mean one thing to another rather than the creator.Effects only change when technology does as technology allows us to create these beautiful designs that we all know and love. We can create things that were only dreams in our mind and make them look real enough to make you believe these designs/creations are real according to wired.com. Effects also change according to the way movies and videos are now created. Instead of creating a set now we shoot the film at a location that they like and use it as the movie instead of creating it. People with money are the ones who get to do this as it’s really expensive to go to these exotic places to shoot the most exotic scenes that are made even more impressive by the art and effects added to the already stunning view. Now people are way less likely to get hurt and people believe animation is much simpler than it actually is expecting the creators to draw a figure and click a button and the scene happens, but it’s not like that at all according to sploid.gizmodo.com. Every artist must draw every scene apart from each other unless they are using a computer to make the process that much quicker. Things now are easier in a sense but also that much more complicated because of all the features involved on a computer, thus smart people with imaginative minds excel at effects and animation. But other people believe that there should be a balance between practical effects and the created ones so that no one can distinguish the difference between the two.

These ideas that come to people because of the things that have happened or are happening to them is called the ikea effect. This is showing that people value the things they create more than others so they have a tendency to keep creating new things that they love according to neoacademic.com. It is called IKEA effect because ikea is a furniture company that when you order things you are the one who has to build it so that way you have a feeling of appreciation because you’re the one who built it. Scientifically proven that people will bid more on their own work than professionals work because they feel like they are connected to their work. They believe they will have more faith in humanity building things because they enjoy it and want to master it. This type of thing also applies to humans as well. It’s called the alienating effect because we have a habit of alienating people who are different in some way. We shun them and ignore them in everything we do causing them to be alone and to think things that we do not mean creating a monster who wants to lash back out at the world in any way possible or to just end his/her own life to get it over with. This is why the world is pretty messed up, everyone want to know why this person did this or that. The reason they did those things is because of how cruel this world has become. One mistake and you can end up like this yourself or cause another person to become a monster.

Everyone knows that the internet revolution is happening but who exactly is getting left behind in this revolution you may ask. Politically you can cause yourself to not have as much access to internet because of your beliefs but then there the major section of people who are poor or live in a remote area that has very little access according to slashdot.org. These people don’t ever have a chance or they have such a small chance at advancing that the world will never know what they are like by seeing their creations or whatever else they bring to the world to make it a better place.

--

--