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Road Trip | This is Life

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Road Trip | This is Life

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The Pots n' Pan I recently worked on this quick animation with a co-worker. It was a fun chance to design and illustrate some kitchen pots and pans people!

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Warning! Huge text post coming up.

I think it's a bit of an understatement when I say it has been a while since my last update. A lot has happened since then, I made a lot of progress, had a couple of setbacks and last but not least: Failed my midterm. Not that it will bother any of you but I'll come to that in a second and will try to explain as much as possible. Maybe not for you guys but since this is a blog where I write down my process I feel like I'm obliged to do this for myself and for my teachers. Maybe I can't cover everything because so much has happened. I could explain every detail and everything about my progress but that's not really the point of this entry. There will be some other blogposts later which include work in progress, test renders and such but this post is more about my midterm, how I handled things. Or better said, not really handled things. Funny that after I stopped blogging my process went downhill really fast. I didn't have as many meetings with my teacher as I wanted to. I worked a lot at home and shut everything out completely. There were times where I decided to work at school, except I wouldn't get any work done and just talked with my classmates. I kept planning things for myself, giving myself deadlines but I kept postponing everything. Sure, I made some stuff, I got 3 movies done in total and did some testing. I was so preoccupied with testing new techniques that I didn't gave myself space to really create a concept and use those techniques to create something new. Instead I kind of used my test movies to form a new concept. I felt that it was a waste to throw away all of my tests so I build my concept based on the tests I had. Because of that my video's were okay, visually. But they had no content whatsoever. I just created things because I wanted to try new techniques and labeled it a "commercial" or "logo animation" afterwards. This isn't a bad thing per se, but for me it was since I was asked all these questions about the contents. They wanted to know what the context was, what kind of audience I had in mind when making this. What was my point of view on the whole thing? The only thing I could hold on to was my drive basically. It's not that I made random stuff, because I started to create and test stuff with a goal in mind. For example, the Pong commercial was a test for me to make a transition from 2D to 3D and combine them. The Pac Man logo animations was about making 2D stuff in Cinema 4D and based on the fact that I wanted to experiment with making fluid animations. But that's it. There was no actual goal, there was no target audience etc. I couldn't explain the choices I made to them. It was just simple creating designs without any boundaries. I showed my work at peergroup sessions and except for some comments on my work, never got any real feedback on the whole concept. No one warned me that this wasn't enough for the midterm. That I couldn't go on like this. I didn't know any of this at the time by the way. I thought it was going quite well, maybe a little too well. When I look back now I finally realize that the way I worked was everything but efficient. So, I did my midterm, held a presentation which was a complete disaster. When I'm nervous I tend to just keep on rambling instead of go blank and shutting up. So I talked about EVERYTHING, which made my presentation really hard to follow. In the end I got a red sign, which basically means that your work and proces are inadequate. As I said, I didn't really know I was doing anything wrong up until then so getting red instead of orange was a bit of a shock. They mentioned so many negative things that I couldn't really remember the positive things they said. They advised me to have a talk with my tutor about the way I work, the way I see myself as a maker and the way I handle feedback. So, the thing I'm doing now is looking back and slowly realizing what I did wrong. I'm busy with making some adjustments to the concept I already had. Have to clear things up a bit, write down my point of view and the context of it all. I want to have that done by the end of this week. Next week I have another appointment with my teacher so I'm slowly picking things up again. He even told me today that I could still graduate in June if I wanted to so let's see if I can pull that off.

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Color schemes and compositions

Finally things are starting to get a little more of perspective. I have a lot of ideas that could help me grow as a motion designer and define my own creative process before starting to actually make things. At the moment I'm just randomly browsing on Tumblr for inspiration and stuff. I mostly look at photographs and the composition and color palettes they have. I think it could be a good learning experience to take some of the photo's and color them over in Photoshop. Not the photo itself but only the colors, so you get all these abstract color palettes and patterns. I feel like I could learn a thing or two by doing so. Furthermore I talked with Veerle about the "ugly movie" assignment. We're going to meet on Thursday to brainstorm about that and I guess I'm going to spend some time on it this weekend. I still need to finalize my word brainstorm session and pick words for my 5 second projects but it's coming along nicely. Will upload these here when I'm done. The plan to go to Stockholm with Gabi is finally taking shape. We were searching for hostels this afternoon so hopefully we can book the flight and hostel this evening. We had to postpone a few weeks though. The original plan was to go mid February but Gabi and I both got a last minute email about our seminars. Since our seminars didn't get picked in January we still had to give one and unfortunately these take place in mid February. So the new date is the beginning of March (probably the 13th till 17th). As soon as this is certain I'm going to prepare some assignments for myself to do over there. Taking photographs, making movies, visit specific places (musea or nature stuff). Because of these seminars my original plan to go to FOAM this week is also postponed. I'll probably visit FOAM at the beginning of next week. I should make a to do list for all these little things because they're to small to put on my overall planning. The things I need to do this week are: - Finalize my word brainstorm sessions - Brainstorm with Veerle for the ugly movie assignment - Write little reviews about my own work. (What would you do differently now? Why do you think it's ugly or pretty etc).

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