Working a bit more on perspective. I really wanted to play and get a more bizarre style castle. After looking at it a bit more though it really seems to have a bit of an MC Escher perspective twist. I love Escher, but you definitely have to stare at his images for quite some time before you really grasp what's going on. Which is very contrary to all that I've been studying in Animation that being trying to get your images to be instantly readable and understandable. So Where does one draw the line? Is it good to vary from one to the other? Should you just pick one side of the fence and stay there?
I think I had mentioned on here the other day that for the first time I had a bit of a hard time getting to art. Not for lack of inspiration or ideas, but simply excessive tiredness, a bit of monotony and in the end a feeling of burn out. Ever since I took a trip a few weeks back it's been hard maintaining a schedule. With the extra work at both schools, plus trying to evolve and grow in personal work as well as professional work, one can feel at times overwhelmed.
All in all I'm basically posing the question that came up after last night. I spent all saturday working on homework, and art projects from that morning till Sunday morning and then had work on top of that. After work I intended to take a 2hour power nap and get back into schedule, but some of my roommates decided to have a party. Which is awesome, but because of the amount of work I set for myself as a goal everyday I usually don't get to enjoy said events. Well, I'm not sure if it was cause I was too tired or just in need of some sort of break, but I ended up having quite a fun time and meeting some really great new people.
So, that being said... Are distractions from your end goal always a bad thing? Are there benefits from not constantly maintaining your true focus? Is it better to let yourself be distracted every now and then?
After that and a bit of sleep, I can say at least for myself, that while I would have liked to get a few more things done yesterday, it sure is nice to step back from projects if just for an evening.
Because it helped energize myself this week I'll leave you with a great tune by the fantastic VJBREWSKI!
I'm not gonna lie. I had a hard time not just going to sleep and not getting my daily work done today, but thanks to the great Thursday night animation group I had that extra little bit of motivation. Another few hours down, today I'm slowly chiseling away that 10,000 hours.
Don Bluth's critique this week really hit home with me. There's no feeling or emotion, not in the drawing itself, but behind the drawing. He's been talking about this for a little while now between the man vs art podcast and his last two seminars. He said he's gonna keep shouting it until someone hears. I for one am going to open my ears as wide as they can go to hopefully try and grasp what he wants. A couple of his questions he wants us all to ask ourselves is did you push it till it becomes obvious what you feel? Can you draw a character that represents emotion? Can you animate a character that makes people think it's alive and thinking? And in the words of the illusive Mark Rudolph ... Think about it.
