Anyway, the talk Hariz and I went was a talk on successful voice recording for CG. It was a really interesting and funny presentation by 4 people. The 4 of them acted out the possible problems that happen in a recording studio and they talk on ways to solve these problems. Actually, it was more like they were complaining about their situation and their directors. Nevertheless, I still learned something from these 4 funny people.
The things I've learned from them are:
1) If you are a director, give clear instructions.
2) Get a GOOD recording studio to record your sounds/voices. You don't wanna have background noises in your recording do you?
3) When getting/auditioning people for voice recording, do not waste time if they are not the right person for the job.
4) Pay professionals by session and not by hour. They will feel insulted if you pay them by hour or rather you will waste their time since they will anyhow voice act till they get paid the amount they want.
5) Allow freedom of actions when recording voices. The voice actors needs to get the feel.
The presenters are actually voice actors themselves. The bald guy is actually a very very good voice actor. He can act as an french assassin, a small boy, a drunkard and many more!After the the talk on successful recording, I split up with Hariz and went for the talk on Japanese game development. I actually fell asleep till the end due the the monotonous tone of one of the translator. When I woke up, it was Q and A session so I left and went to have lunch alone at the convenience store again!!! Very unhealthy.
After which, I went for the talk on making and Android game, but again its in Japanese!! Damn, why does talks that I think is important and interesting have to be in Japanese!!
I couldn't understand a single thing and so I left and went to the art gallery. There are many cool stuffs displayed over there.
There a a few memorable cool stuffs displayed. One of them is a laser ball bouncing off black pieces of papers and the user can move the paper anywhere and the laser ball bounces off accordingly to where the piece of paper is.
Another cool thing I saw was the MemoIcon. MemoIcon allows users to control a computer-like table with their daily items like a mug. Users can store pictures and notes and view them. Users can also store music and play them by dragging the music file to the mug. Also, they can turn their mug to adjust the volume of the music played. However, it's a research done by students and it's still buggy. Still, it's damn cool.
And also other stuffs displayed. Most of them are university students research work.
Of course there are some items there which I think is redundant.
After which I went to the exhibition hall and the job fair.
The new mo-cap technology that doesn't need any suit or trackers. It costs about 200million yen if I remember correctly. There are many 3D or stereo vision technologies and also Ar, Mr and Vr.
After which Hariz and I went for the Siggraph reception. The others went for the Pixar's party.
We took a shuttle bus there. It was quite a distance from our hotel.
When we got there, we were soooo disappointed. There weren't any food left and the best thing is that there is no refill or restock. We left 5 minutes after we got there. The only good news is, we get to roam on our own!!
We went quite far. We went to Sakuragi-Cho station, which is 1 station away. Then we went to a shopping centre called World Porters. The shopping centre have mostly fashion stores although there are some souvenir stores. There is also 1 level that is dedicated to food! So you can find lots of food restaurants there including your fast food outlets like MacDonald, KFC and many others. When we got there, most of the food outlets were closed so, we have to settle down for MacDonalds. The MacDonalds there or rather other countries Macdonalds probably have something that Singapore MacDonalds do not which is....MacPork!! It tasted like sausage Mac-Muffin though.
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