The nature of invention is expressing the same thing in a different manner. This requires deep understanding of the subject. Some people invent purely from their own understanding, other expand their knowledge to gain deep understanding to facilitate the invention.
The better the understanding, the more likely the transformative impact of the invention.
To form a shape, the heart needs rhythm for guiding, pain for excluding distractions
Gradually slowing down
Like falling asleep
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Sense is disappearing
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Because
I wanted to clear the mind
To get back fresh
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But this relaxing time
Made me feel like falling asleep
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Things were not going
It is restricted by reality
I felt frustrated, incapable
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The solution
Is to get little progress on everything
Get it moving
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The real problem
I was too busy to feel like breathing
Distracted by bad habits, irregular rhythm
Always in a rush
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I just need to fix the problem of rhythm!
Getting more time to control my mind to let the heart go
Not letting greedy distract the mind, to control the heart
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Okay
Then, the point is to not let the heart distracted
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Focus
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The right feeling
Apparently busy, yet not feeling busy
Guided by rhythm
And self restriction
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Guided by the restricted frame
Like a machine running
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From this minute
Strengthen the machine
Get it run
Run things in the heart
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Then the heart would feel like breathing and running
Over the three-month brainstorming on story development with client, with laughs and frustrations, we eventually approached the expected feeling in an important morning in June, 2018 – “yep, that’s what we want J”.
Looking back, I feel two of the important things we did right are:
For the first item, it accepts the imperfection of the state of the story, which opens the door for inviting any possible ideas to fix the story. The second item, chains the first item as a series of actions to arrive the destination.
Although the methodology was effective for story development, it may be a good methodology for any complicated problem that is similar to story development. Because story development is a process whose result is difficult to foresee. During this process, a lot new ideas come in, which is unlikely to know in the beginning.
For the first film, I am not going to make it perfect. Instead, focus on deliverables, and fast iteration.
Do research on each stage of animation.
I’m excited on the final stage – production. Because I can do research on rendering!
Path tracing is too expensive, radiosity seems like the right way.
Questions to step forward:
Next:
For a small animation studio, one efficient way of empowering hires to create the best work is being able to challenge and analyze the kind of work done by hires. This could be approached by doing research on the area, understanding pros and cons. Like a CTO.
Story is about father discovers his love for his son. Father’s love for his son is demonstrated in the beginning by his color recovered by hugs with his son after work. The son learning writing is the medium on which the diminishment and recovery of love play. Learning writing comes from a common sense of school. Engagement of audience is enhanced by eye touches of father and son, and father’s poses at the end.
It’s very smart that the movie takes advantage of the power of poses to intuitively connect and engage the audience. If the son is able to draw for learning writing at the end, instead of the father do the poses of playing violin, audience would feel less engaged and fulfilled.
Paper is the medium for starting the story. It comes from the guy holding the paper in the begging.
Feather has been throughout the story as the medium for untold purpose – it comes from heaven and it follows common sense.
Stuck at storyboarding of animated film n not know how to fix the issue.
Next: just draw. Draw anything you like. Then you’ll come up with the idea
Hit the first issue developing the film: reconcile critics of the storyboard. Exciting!
Problem: my friend, Henry, a professional animator, pointed out that the storyboard is wrong in a lot ways, which my client and I weren’t aware of. Specifically, the order of which the characters appear is wrong – they should all appear in the first place, and go through the entire storyboard. Whereas in the current storyboard, the characters appear at different times.
Discussion: Henry’s criticism makes sense to me, but I don’t understand why all characters should appear in the first place and go through the entire storyboard. For the story we’re developing, is Henry’s opinion better than what we have now?
Solution: answer the following questions:
Edited Solution: it’s reconciled by adding voice on each scene to convey the key message. In the current storyboard, the main characters indeed go across the entire storyboard, but they don’t look obvious to the audience without knowing the key message. Because key message help the audience understand which are the main characters, and which are characters for assisting the story. Example of multi-characters in one story with narratives: It’s So Brill by Animade [1].
Thought: it feels challenged and frustrated and lost when Henry told me that the story is wrong. Because my client and me worked deliberately on every bit of the development of story and storyboard for a month. However, that’s good challenge. The point is to stay calm to figure out the real issue. Henry essentially got lost of the story in front of all the characters, so we need to convey the story to the audience. That way, the audience understand which are the main characters, and which are for assisting the story. The solution is to use voice-over to narrate the key message of each scene, because we do have concrete key messages to back the story.
Reference
[1] London animation studio | Animade. It’s So Brill. https://animade.tv/work/its-so-brill
It has always been short time spent with Daddy. But your kindness has been growing in my heart for forever. It makes me be me. The freedom you gave me to be myself, the visit to your friend during his captivity to care about him when I was a kid, all formed the beauty in me. Thank you, Daddy~!
