February 2012
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Animatic and Final Vid for Gorillaz "Dare"
Animatic for Gorillaz’s “Dare” music video:
Final video:
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Havana's Comprehensive Must-Read List for Recent...
The post-grad life so far has been short but frustrating. Some days, I am happy, eager, and ready to conquer the world. Other days, I am lethargic and nervous. It’s a huge life change and upon reading about this period, I found that I am far from alone. This list contains some of the best, most useful, and most inspiring material I’ve come across so far, including some subjects that...
Beat Procrastination by Doing Nothing - The... →
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My Pre-Event Pump Up Routine
You’ve been in this situation before. You’re about to go to some sort of networking event. There are going to be some awesome people and opportunities you want to catch. You get nervous. You’re anxious. You almost back out but you don’t. “I can do this, I can do this,” you chant to yourself.
You arrive and for the next two hours, you are a total wallflower....
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“Today, I learned that the antidote of fear is action. Startup Riot went really...”
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Finding Your Creative Sweet Spot →
littlesparrowdesigns:
Calling all entrepreneurs, artists, creative thinkers, fashionistas, designers, and the list goes on! This write-up about finding your creative sweet spot is most helpful. It even encourages you to toss a few back in order to get the creative juices flowing. Anyone who suggests that I drink a little wine in order to be productive is super cool in my book. Enjoy!
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Watchpenciltests:
And here’s a fun clip about Glen Keane’s process for improving the animation on Tangled. He would draw over the shot as a reference for the animators so they could push the animation to be as good as it can be.
It’s amazing how just a few minor details in the frames injects so much more personality into the character …
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Radical Honesty
From Radical Honesty:
[Radical Honesty] was founded by a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist named Brad Blanton. He says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. This would be radical enough — a world without fibs — but Blanton goes further. He says we should toss out the filters between our brains and our mouths. If you...
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best but for...
This is from Julia Cameron’s incredible book, The Artist’s Way. This excerpt on creative perfectionism resonated with me so much that I just had to recreate the passage to disseminate to everyone. Hopefully, it pull you out of your own vicious cycle.
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards....