Hey you guys! Welcome back.
I just kinda want to talk a bit about what's been going on lately.
On Friday I escaped town and ended up in Phoenix for the Amazing Arizona Con!
I had a personal goal to talk to the artists there and find out what they did to transition from student / non-professional to professional / independent artists.
I spent a lot of time looking around at their wares and work, there was a lot of impressive people! The advice started sounding the same. There are components to becoming successful. It seems the major thing is to do what you love. Every artist clearly said that if you're doing what you love then it's never work and it doesn't matter how you end up doing it, you'll always find a way. Another thing they said was LUCK. Yep. They were lucky and said the right thing to someone at sometime or another and it got them mentioned for something bigger. So to say that clearly, NETWORKING, not so much luck. I saw what they meant. There was a lot of stuff and I ended up learning some valuable stuff just by creating conversation. If you think about it, they were once art students like me, or you, if you are, so they were in the same spot.
This made me think about the people who I look up to, and I saw that they all started hanging out because they all had similar goals in mind, as well as similar jokes. That made them friends, which in turn helped them produce work faster, and develop a better quality of work since they all could critique it.
This is why I love my friends. We are a group of people who inspire each other to be better and produce good work, while using each other to accomplish these goals. This is why I always push hard for critiques on my work as I'm developing ideas as well as working in full production. Advice and guidance are invaluable. It's also important to stay open minded. It's good to have a firm idea or belief but it's great to be able to mold and adapt it. It's how art stays growing and organic.
Cons are a great way to get inspired, at least for me. I came back home excited to see that I am loosely a part of this community and what shocked me the most was that these artists that I connected with had a small vested interest in my success. I guess they saw me as an equal and not some guy who's just a fan.
Currently I'm locked in a battle of doing storyboards. As well as figuring out the events that happen to my poor protagonist. I have some good shot ideas and what not so it's a lot of writing, thinking what's funny, thinking about what happened, and then figuring out how to put it all together. Once that's done though I can throw it into AfterEffects and do an animatic, put in some scratch sound and work on my animation title card.
What I'm going to get done after this step will consist of figuring out if what I have for storyboards works. Making sure I don't linger too long on a shot, or send the wrong message with a bad shot comp. The story is a bit sad but it's about self growth and self reliance. So I hope it leaves a good feeling in your heart when it's over.
Some things that are working right now are watching a lot of cartoons to get shot ideas.
Things that aren't working are me- It's been hard to actually break the page with my marks and get those ideas down on paper.
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