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.

Update: Project Bob

Spending the night laying out the chorus for the project before I go in and animate it tomorrow morning. I've decided to repeat the chorus for this typography which would take a bulk out of what I have to work on.

The chorus/hook gets repeated about 4 times in this song with 2 verses (one of them being a rap verse) and 1 bridge. The chorus runs for about 30 seconds so that should take around half the song (3:36) when I complete that section, which should be around this weekend.


Here's a screenshot of the chorus. I'm messing around with lines and perspective. Had a little trouble with the text but after fiddling around with the mystery that is the "collapse transformations" switch, I was able to fix a small issue I had with the text moving in 3D space with precomps.

Project Bob

Just got signed on to do a kinetic typography for an unreleased single by Bobby V. featuring Wale.

My due date is 2 weeks, so check back to see some updates. I have a couple of other projects to work on on top of this, so I'm excited to see how well I've gotten at balancing workloads.



Thank God I got a coffee maker from Jess' mom.