I arrive at the Digital Design campus at Vancouver Film School. I sit here in front the computer I work at about to start a solid working session. I must note that it is a Friday night of a long weekend. I feel that it is only necessary to start the evening with a bit of inspiration.

This post is about the process I am going to take to get me started on my night.

I start with turning on my ipod and the first song up is a tune from home (good ol NZ). Its NZ hip hop from a famous DJ back home. P-Money - 3,2,1. Its a good pump-start and the beat is getting me typing.

Next I think I need some some motion design to get some ideas flowing for my Blue screen motion design piece. A site that I have always liked is

Motionographer

The first post is about a motion designer, Christopher Abbey. I like his reel. It doesn’t look like anything too hard and I like the photo animation he has mixed into it. check it out at Crabbey
I look forward to the day where I have a nice reel where people look for inspiration from me.

Next up I’m gonna check out the FWA to get some flash inspiration for my interactive journalism piece that, Ivan and I are working on. Its a piece about the Basque region in Spain. We are focusing on the difference between the Basque people and the ETA group within it. They are both trying to get independence for the Basque region in Spain.

The FWA

I click on a random site. Its an MTV site where you make a character and walk around in his room it seems. I feel like I should start doing some work and I could probably end up spending hours on this site. Its time I moved on.

Well I spent a good 20 mins writing this blog entry and I don’t know if I feel anymore inspired. I feel like working on my projects more than checking out more stuff. I think this is a good sign because it shows that I am very motivated to get cracking and get some work done.

I don’t think this was procrastination but more kind of necessary even if I don’t feel inspired. I need to keep looking around in order to see what is possible and how I can make my work better than what I see.

Its a long post.

Post me some links for your inspirations or processes you take to start your work.

One Response to “Process your Inspiration”

1. Tyler Egeto says:

   August 10th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
   
   

   This is interesting, I could write quite a bit about actually. But I won’t bore. My process depends on the time of day and location, ideally it begins late at night with a bottle of red wine, music, and a sketch book.

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This is interesting, I could write quite a bit about actually. But I won’t bore. My process depends on the time of day and location, ideally it begins late at night with a bottle of red wine, music, and a sketch book.

Yay.. new design of my blog.

Now I have a double column post for quickies like this.

Awesome.

This is interesting, I could write quite a bit about actually. But I won’t bore. My process depends on the time of day and location, ideally it begins late at night with a bottle of red wine, music, and a sketch book.