Inspiration

Before you guys judge me, yes this is a Japanese song with an extremely catchy tune and a girl singer, but the compositing in this is so creative and fun! It's very Tim and Eric-esque. When the chorus comes up and the type is just all over the place I can't help but keep pausing the video on YouTube to analyze that style.



Also the small details put into the transitions and abstract parts are what keep me fascinated. I'm still working mainly with files made digitally in After Effects and hope to implement video footage into my compositions soon to create abstract and weird designs. I hope to do editing like this one day.

On a side note, I just got in contact with an old friend who's been doing a lot of compositing work and has been telling me to learn The Foundry's Nuke, a high end post production/compositing program. I've been looking into Nuke and it's "node system" which is said to be better for much more complex compositing work than Adobe's layer system.

Just looking at that puzzles me, but I'm excited to learn. If it's like any other post production program I've learned, I'll fall in love.

From 12pm.

I've been working on a project in After Effects for almost 10 hours straight. In the process, I've finished watching every single episode of King of the Hill on Netflix.

I'm happy I get to have my weekends open now. I used to worry about doing anything because I had 'x' amount of hours before work and I'd usually feel like I was rushed. Now I can stretch out creatively and give myself ample amount of time to get the creative process going and lasting for quite a while.

And thank god tomorrow is Monday. A new week means a fresh slate.

Exhausted but my mind is still itching.

I just finished the 12 hour shoot. My body feels exhausted and my mind feels a little drained but I'm still getting a creative itch.

I currently have After Effects open and fiddling with "Project X" ideas. It feels good to know that after a long day I'm still willing to work on some of  my own projects for no personal gain; just for fun.

I've read somewhere that After Effects has a mild learning curve, but is extremely hard to master. I really like that idea that it seems almost endless in compositing potential, and makes me wonder if even the programmers who've designed it can fully utilize all its abilities.



I also just recently got a copy of "The Tree of Life" which is directed by Terrence Malick, who's known for being a quite a mystery and a recluse (his last film was in 2005, and before directing "The Thin Red Line" in 1998, his last feature was made 20 years prior). I'm yet to watch the whole thing, but I've heard different reviews from word of mouth and the internet about its non-linear story and gorgeous visuals. I'm yet to see it and might check out the first 5 minutes of it before I go to sleep.

From Wikipedia - "Malick's film chronicles the origins and meaning of life by way of a middle-aged man's childhood memories of his family living in 1950s Texas, interspersed with imagery of the origins of the universe and the inception of life on Earth. After decades in development and missed 2009 and 2010 release dates, the film premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews for its technical and artistic merits, but there were also polarizing reactions in response to Malick's directorial style and, in particular, the film's fragmented non-linear narrative."



I wish there were more hours of the day and that I didn't have to sleep every 15 hours. There's just so much I want to do and work on.

Long time no post.

Let's pretend as if my last post wasn't in July. Long story short - I've finished that Vanguard typography project for artist Trevor Hall and his song "Brand New Day". Check it out here:



AND, as I was searching for this, I've just found out Vanguard has made an actual music video for him too!





Anyways, I've been basically gone for so long because I took a 2 week trip to the Philippines. I'm currently in my senior year at school and have been busy with various small type projects and my film production class which I'm currently doing sound for. Speaking of film production, I'll be doing my first 12 hour day, 6 to 6, tomorrow morning to do some field recording and later post production audio mixing.

I'm currently recording with a Marantz PMD 660 and an Audio Technica 835b. I got all my equipment from my school's equipment room which is seem to be pretty bad at taking care of equipment. My Marantz came without a shoulder strap so I put my T2i strap to compensate. 

As for projects go - I have "Project X" which its due date seems to loom near, "My Simple Project" which is a type project for an underground artist name F.Stokes, and I was recently offered a job to work for EMI again for an artist named Susan Justice. The catch for the new EMI project is that along with it being a type project, I may have to do a visual sync of the chords in the song to the audio.

Oh, and I quit my job at Domino's due to a lack of hours and start doing more freelance. I used to be afraid of not having a job, but I think with the right organizational skills, freelance would be the best way to go.

Okay, off to bed. I'm going to wake up at 5, have coffee and breakfast, and head out for a long 12 hour day. Wish me luck!