Brace yourself, fireworks are coming!

Jul 4

I do not know about you but I feel for the elderly, pet owners, and those that work early shifts after, during, and even before the event takes place. Fireworks became legal in the state I reside and it seems like a great opportunity to play and have fun, but it can be overwhelming in many ways.

But then again this is me when the Fourth has taken over my soul !! (facepalm)

I took some time away from Languishing Hiraeth only because I hit another wall within the pre-production stage, better learn now and get through it than when it is on the line for a due date! I believe that I am learning drastic lessons in not only the pre-production stage but in the overall process of a good workflow for many projects. It has changed the way I approach a project and take notes and plan ahead. I know that it is never a perfect picture and we cannot plan for every possibility, but when it hits, we can work through it in a much faster/better pace then be set back drastically. I finished the Dermot Storyboarding course on Linked - In learning, and the of course that was the wall I came across. Although there is no a story to the overall short, a viewer or lets even say someone working with me to develop this short, will be so confused and lost at the second marker. It was because I did not consider the flow of the story to the actual written one, to display thoughts and motion of camera/angles and display of the overall goal for the audience to understand. I took a step back and thought maybe I should just take a break to clear my thoughts on the project and try pursuing more course work throughout my week. Well this came as a major surprise, I thought I would go through a well organized drive and try to pull together my portfolio assets. Well I guess lesson learned, I will by far be learning a better file management workflow, because trying to find existing work was tedious task.

I was able to iterate, develop better geometry for my old 3D models, and make iterations to other projects that I think will display my skillset in a better fashion. Although I have had many different projects of the years, I found that the combination of what I thought would be a great display of my skillsets are just beginning to look like a cluster of not knowing my own direction. As I have said before, the issue with the program I am currently enrolled in is that there are too many introductions to too many possible outcomes with no focus on what the student feels they would like to pursue, along with only using industry standard programs such Adobe, it has become a struggle because the way to display the work for the industry without using industry standard programs for modeling, rendering, and other areas I am interested in pursuing has become a major struggle. Below you will see much of the revisited projects I plan to iterate and pursue for the portfolio, but you notice the same thing I notice. There is a wide range of skillsets here, but no direction or pursuit of direction. They all share a style, and display of myself, but yet there could be more direction in the work. With that being said, I will have to create work/projects for my portfolio in order to pursue a better display of my skillsets. Again, below is some of the iterations and revisits to work that I would like to finish up and add to my portfolio throughout the remainder of the semester.