Insights into Storyboarding

Great video on concepting and storyboarding here. Lots of little great insights for any creative out there.

We'll take a look at some examples of storyboards and then we'll make something awesome from scratch for a real client. Because it's fun, stupid! More at http://www.division05.com and...

Inspiration is for amateurs

A short film about the mysteries of inspiration. Featuring thoughts on the subject by: David Lynch Robert Krulwich Chuck Close Tracy Clayton & Heben Nigatu Ray Barbee Lulu Miller Susan Orlean and a couple of kids named Mason and Ursula Presented by www.transom.org With funding from The National Endowment for the Arts For more about this video, visit: http://transom.org/2017/where-do-ideas-come-from/

Learn new skills!

Good read by Paul H. Paulino about how learning traditional media really helped him understand and push his CG work. 

"During my lunch break I would bookmark all kinds of free tutorials I could find and at night I would follow them meticulously, trying to achieve the same result.

After a couple of months doing this, I realized that I wasn’t improving at all. I couldn’t solve problems without looking at step-by-step tutorials and I didn’t feel I was creating anything. The reason was simple: I wasn’t learning. I was copying.

I felt like I needed to do something different to learn things properly and master the skills to become an artist. Soon I realized that it wasn’t just about practicing, it was about knowing how to practice.

After arriving at that conclusion I decided to put my 3D studies aside and, instead, I began learning more about drawing and painting.

To be honest, that conclusion didn’t come quickly. I spent a long time observing, reading and studying successful stories from artists all over the world and I realized that almost everyone highlighted the importance of learning at least the basics of art fundamentals."

Why Bob Dylan won the Noble Prize

Really good video about Dylan. Lots of ideas in here.

HELP ME MAKE MORE VIDEOS: http://www.patreon.com/nerdwriter TUMBLR: http://thenerdwriter.tumblr.com TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter Email me here: thenerdwriter@gmail.com SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: Clinton Heylin, "Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, 1960-1994" (pg 69-71) https://books.google.com/books?id=c9d62SgEJpkC&pg=PA69&dq=clinton+heylin+all+along+the+watchtower&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ1Onju6rNAhVHxGMKHbNPDP4Q6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=clinton%20heylin%20all%20along%20the%20watchtower&f=false Albin J. Zak III, "Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix: Juxtaposition and Transformation "All along the Watchtower" Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol.

The Long Game

Little creative viewing time.

WATCH PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7hraQwMKIw WATCH PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKWIUqUscA [HELP ME MAKE MORE VIDEO ESSAYS LIKE THIS! https://www.patreon.com/AdamWestbrook] Do you ever have that feeling that everyone else is more successful than you? If you think that's bad - try being Leonardo Da Vinci. This is the first of a two-part series on our distorted view of creativity and success.

How to be an artist with a day job.

Great little article on managing creative output with work obligations. Good read.

“In order to get creating and avoid the instant gratification monkey, you may need to force yourself to get started. This is normal. Set a timer and make yourself begin working for 20 minutes, distraction free (no phone, no email, no social media, etc). If you’re not locked in when the timer goes off, step back, take a break for a few minutes and eat some string cheese. I find string cheese is pretty good at getting my creative juices flowing. Then go back and try again for as many sessions as you have time for. If you are truly in the zone when the timer goes off, ignore it and go as long as your feeble body will take you. Ride that wave to glory, my friend.

Most people aren’t able to do anything continuously without breaks. In fact, it’s been scientifically demonstrated that taking breaks is good for your creative energy. But even if you just get one rather unproductive but good-intentioned 20 minute block in, that’s still progress. And if you can get a couple chunks of work done every day (again, form a habit), you’ll be in better shape than most people who walk all the way to the corner coffee shop to write four sentences of their shitty screenplay about a vegetable who was raised by fruit, then goes on an epic journey to find the broccoli family that abandoned him as a child. Again, on the spot, you’re welcome for the idea.”
— http://www.evbro.com/words/how-to-be-artist-with-day-job