Sorry I've been so quiet on the personal blog front, guys.
On the plus side, I've been very busy over at my professional site. It is a little animation and art-centric, but you might find something there you like, no?
We had a creativity class yesterday, where we had to work in changing teams and 1) think of a story from scratch, 2) given a specific character, think of three different stories with that character in it and no one else, 3) given a set of random words, tell a story on the spot using those words, 4) make up a character (mine was a doggie) and a story using only a sock and a balloon, then 5) use that character to interact with other characters, and 6) given a specific product, think of a way to sell that product to a new market.
This was meant to show and teach us the following:
- We will frequently be asked to create things on the spot, and given no guidelines.
- We will often work within limited parameters, like client preferences and set budgets.
- New ways of thinking up ideas, using word association, or by mixing up different random elements and forcing ourselves to use these elements.
- How working in a group leads to creating ideas, characters, stories, that you would never have thought up by yourself.
- That anyone can think of next year's trend, simply by looking at this year's. To stay ahead of the crowd, you have to think about what's going to be needed/wanted in a future beyond that - five, or ten years from now.
- That you will often be required to think of a new way to sell something old/existing.
I never wanted it to end, and all the little stories we came up with held such a seed of promise that I wanted to make them all into short films! I will admit that I can be bossy, and I may have railroaded some of my teams into picking my idea. (Hmm, perhaps I should work on curbing that ...)
In a nutshell--I had a great day. This is the life for me!

3 comments:
sounds like fun! i, too, work my best under pressure.
i'm sure your ideas were better than theirs anyways ;)
Keep it up An9ie, you will do great! Jaymez. Ha ha word verification below is biych! I am easily amused.
Thanks for the encouragement, guys--it makes me want to do even better* :) Go, me!
* Bad grammar but I felt like it :)
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