Wookies

January 30 --Week 4

Open-ended is the best.  Some people get discouraged.  Some get overwhelmed . And some suffer from every stress symptom of "creators block",  and develop a disease they googled on WebMD (it was Mom's lasagna from last night, made worse by a case of hypochondria).

I don't suffer from empty-brain syndrome.  If anything, I'm a victim of too-full-brain syndrome.  But that means my creative process is a pull v. a push.

My ideation process doesn't really ever stop.  That means when it comes to picking a subject matter for an animation, it's pretty easy.  What's not easy is the next step; focusing and making my ideas real.  I'm inspired by things I like: Nike Lowdunks, Wookies, and augmented reality.  But my original idea for characters who are Nike-Lowdunks-wearing Wookies who live in a space of augmented reality falls flat when it gets to the draft stage.

I'd say the process has been working 50% of the time.  The other 50% I end up with Wookie memes I made on PS in my mad dash.  They don't seem as funny the next day.