Share Paper: Maximising Creativity and Art with Game Engine Technology

  1. Gray Hodgkinson, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Abstract: How does a teacher motivate non-technical students to gain enough proficiency with technology to reach a level where they can be freely creative? This question is at the core for any teacher who teaches complex creative software. At times, technology and creativity appear mutually exclusive, and yet, when someone is able to combine these two abilities, they are able to produce engaging art and design that appears effortless. Art and Design schools aspire to nurture technology and creativity together, and successful outcomes rely heavily on the course designer’s awareness of how this learning is achieved. Assumptions about the learning speed ...