I am at the point in the quarter where I sort of feel like I’m trying to just constantly juice my brain for ideas… It’s slightly overwhelming I think. It’s weird cause even when I’m not “working” I just constantly try to come up with ideas for my projects.. I think this part of the quarter is kind of the hardest, cause what goes down now determines so much of the rest, and without good ideas everything falls through.
I’m struggling with really solidifying any ideas for my interactive design class.. It’s like some things connect.. but not quite everything… sigh.
Motion
My intro to motion design and intro to after effects classes started this week. I think they should be good, although I’m a little worried about the time commitment.
So on Tuesday was the Intro to Motion Design. I am definately the youngest person there. Everyone else is in the real world already. Senior designers and others. One person from Methodologie and a few from Hornall Anderson. And others from other places I don’t remember. Either way, I feel pretty damn intimidated being surrounded by people who are way more experienced than me. It is also 3/4 guys. It’s such a different experience to be surrounded by designers who aren’t the VCD kids. I sort of feel like I’ll have to work harder prove myself more at this thing.
Anyways, He showed us a bunch of their work, and sort of went through how they were made, from basic to most complex. I think the most interesting pieces for me were the ones which were apparently just stills and stopmotion, but looked like much more than that. Near the end we were given our assignment for the class. I get to make a 30 second opener for a show called Masters of Horror, so apparently I get to try out the dark and moody thing afterall. I’m pretty excited for it, although I’m having a really hard time coming up with a good concept that isn’t typical horror crap. I’m finding myself more interested in this class than my Interactive Design class. I also think it’s a lot more organized than that one.
Thrusday was the After Effects class. A lot of the interface is fairly familiar to me since I’ve played with it a little, but it’s good to have a refresher cause I’ve forgotten a lot. We got to animate a little logo. Apparently our project will be to animate a little logo for ourself to use as like an opener thing for our reel. Should be good.