As the saying goes, once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Perhaps when the era of motion graphics entered a maintstream and found its way into a software I could afford I took it up.
Little did I know many companies would fall at the waste side and their language in coding I was studying would be overwritten by simpler things in record time in measure of time as I consider it.
The Island
I did animate one thing to recall an experience of canoe journey where two whales swam below our canoe once. I recall no one asked me to do it I just had a compelling effort to do so.
All things have to start somewhere.
The video is gone but the ability to make things exists. I’ve learned how tolling and taxing it can be to self fund things and take time to something that may not have pay off but self education and appreciation of peers.
To make the animation 30sec long could probably be done on a phone or tablet.
Steve Jobs once talked about code (as a marketer) that the workers who write may not be recognized by their work that is constantly written over. Something about moving the studio had me looking at cables and adaptors and how quickly things become obsolete.
I suppose that is why the value of the woodwork is so rewarding in knowing it takes time. It can be exhausting to do anything but equally, not stepping away from the work of one discipline will keep another in the back of your mind. Motion graphics are not a profit driven practice as I know it in fine art here because it’s not known yet. I have hopes that it can be something with value if nothing else, appreciated for it’s effort.