Off for Vacation

I'll be flying to New York City and will be out of town from March 30th to April 3. Happy Spring Break, everyone! I'll be back with updates on Project Bob and maybe some new personal projects.

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A reblog from "The Joe's Journal Blog".

"The ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung have also influenced many genre theorists. Like Taine, both psychiatrists believed that art is a reflection of underlying structures of meaning, that it satisfies certain subconscious needs in both the artists and his audience. For Freud, art was a form of daydreaming and wish fulfillment, vicariously resolving urgent impluses and desires that can't be satisifed in reality. Pornographic films are perhaps the most obvious example of how anxieties can be assuaged in this indirect manner, and in fact Freud believed that most neuroses were sexually based. He thought that art was a by-product of neurosis, though essentially a socially beneficial one. Like neurosis, art is characterized by a repetition compulsion, the need to go over the same stories and rituals in order to reenact and temporarly resolve certain psychic conflicts, which are rooted in childhood traumas."
-Schulsteiss

Project Bob Update

Currently near completion of the project. I need to work on the bridge and doing some final touch ups. The project should be ready by this weekend. It's interesting to see how much faster I'm getting at this. It's crazy to think I'm already near completion when exactly 7 days ago I had nothing to work with and could only imagine how many late nights were ahead of me.

I feel good about this project because I started creating my own graphics in After Effects. It opens up a wider range of things I can do now.

I'm currently feeling a bit uninspired. I think I'm going to take a break from work. 24 hours should do me good.

Seriously thinking of going to Gnomon after CSUN. I feel I'm not learning much there.

Project Bob Update

Here's some screen shots of what I've done so far.

The theme of this version is comic books. The camera follows panel to panel following texts in the style of modern day comics.

I've been practicing more with creating my own graphics. I'm proud to say that this project contains vectors all made by me (so far). I'm paying some homage to Lichtenstein and his pop art style, so some of his similar works are modified and put into this project. I'm also using some famous super hero logos and motifs.

I should be done with this project around the end of next week. I'm reusing the chorus again, so after finishing it, I'll be up past the 2 minute mark with the 2nd verse, and bridge left to do. I'm thinking of reusing my 2nd verse from my initial version of this project to help cut down some time. We'll see how this all pans out.

Update: Project Bob

So there's a change in plans for this project. I've basically completed the project, but they want to dump the current concept and go with a new idea. They want a theme that appeals more to their demographic, which for them is teenage girls.

Personally, I don't mind doing the project again, and doing things like this should help me with working on different variations of a project, which will likely happen in the industry. I just wished communication was better between the client and I. At least I got another job, back to back, this way. I don't start until this Monday, and I'm currently in a creative drain. That's another thing I need to prepare for; squeezing out every ounce of creativity when moving from project to project.

I plan to release my initial version on my Vimeo, so I guess two lyric videos will be floating around the internet. I should be done 2 weeks from this coming Monday.

I'll just keep thinking positive and learning from every project I get.

24 hour Break

And just like with everything I work on, I progressively get tired of anything I create. I'm taking Jess' advice and taking 24 hours off this project. I'm ahead of schedule by 4 days. I've completed everything except the bridge. I'm probably going to go back and fix a few things here and there, but a full days worth of not staring at the After Effects interface should clear my mind and bring in fresh ideas.

I recall watching a Ted Talks about a company using a similar strategy when creating a new product. They give their employees a vacation with the only catch is that they're not to think or work on the project at all. In response, employees felt refreshed and contributed new ideas to the project that they probably wouldn't have otherwise.

I'll see you in 24 hours, After Effects! Until then, I'll be looking at the Avid interface instead.

Currently On Repeat/Update Project Bob

I like to play one song on repeat while doing a new project. It keeps me in a steady pace because of the repetitiveness. I'm currently stuck on "Feather" by Little Dragon.



As for the project, I've finished the chorus not to long ago. I'm currently working on the first verse of the song. Hopefully by tonight I'll finish that section and then I can move onto the second verse and then the bridge and I'll be done.