What i'd like to do

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Music video making, mainly working with animation. I've always always been massively interested in producing music videos, and some parts of me have always wanted to pick up a camera and do something with it, however, i am finding that i'm not the sort of person who can or wants to sit around and capture beautiful things, as i don't think i've got that natural talent of putting things nicely into a shot. I instead, surprisingly, prefer to be more organised and plan things. I like using tools and preparing things. I would like to make videos, and I think i like being part of the editing and definitely the ideas of what needs to be filmed.

I also like the idea of creating, drawing something and then putting that in a video. I like the idea of animation with music. I'd like to try something out like this. An animation that really syncs well with the music, quite similar to what I did for my last project, but hopefully progressing from that and looking more at creating characters... possibly.






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As for creating characters, this is an animation I have found that has really pulled me towards trying to make something more emotional. I really can't draw, but I guess that could be something I could learn in this project, maybe. I think as something to learn I would like to try and make something seem it has emotions without having to use too much illustration and just focusing on the animation.
I had a short tutorial with David where he gave me the idea to work with an exercise where I use an abstract shape that has no features at all and try to show it's emotions through the animation. This is something that I would really like to try and see where it could grow from there.


I think... i think from my two recent tutorials and writing this that I am aiming to look at animation and work with that, improve my skills on after effects and learn how to bring more emotion and characteristics into an animation, even if it is very simply. My first way to do this would be to just try and draw, or to make shapes within aftereffects. I also think I'd like to try with paper and simple mark making with pens, as this is something i'd always love to do, and even tried to do in my final project last year, but got too involved with learning after effects. So basically, I think i'd like to try and make some characters in a way i can, so if simple drawing doesn't work, i will hopefully find solution in paper, and then if not that, i will try something else. This is for now, this may all very much change by tomorrow.