http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1777-muvizu-withdrawals.aspx Forum - General Discussion - Muvizu withdrawals.. - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Tue, 08 May 2012 12:56:42 GMT Tue, 08 May 2012 12:56:42 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1777-muvizu-withdrawals.aspx At no fault of Muvizu mind you, was just slighty beyond our realm of reality.]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 12:56:42 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1777-muvizu-withdrawals.aspx
I get a total buzz from uploading a finished project though and spend a couple of day's recharging the batteries before moving on to the next project.

I have to admit to having too many irons in the fire on occasion and any spare time I do get ends up with me thinking up new projects, ideas or 'get arounds'. Sad to say, last time I went fishing the lad had to give me a nudge as I was so engrossed in thinking of ways around animating the wheels on a 'gig van' I was totally oblivious to my rod tip whipping round and missed a 'bite & a half'.

In fact I've had to go old tech and buy a project notebook, and I mean pen and paper here, with tabbed sections so that I can give each section up to an individual project and when I come up with something new I can jot it down to be worked on. My old system of drawing on the back of cigarette packets no longer works as I've gone on to roll ups, & anyway I couldn't smoke enough cigarettes to keep up with the demand for blank paper.

At the minute I'm working on one film of my own, a collaboration and about six different models, as well as building a Muvizu related website, writing and recording a couple of tutorials.

But then I can't just blame the Muvizu guys either...every time I get a blank and try getting a break some complete plank of a politician does something so sodding stupid I have to start writing and animating about it.

As for projects that have not seen the light of day....erm about...1,2,3,4 oh and the one about...5, and that thing with the...6,7 and the one that does the...8 oh too many!
edited by Dylly on 06/05/2012]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 20:47:53 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1777-muvizu-withdrawals.aspx Sun, 06 May 2012 18:38:53 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1777-muvizu-withdrawals.aspx
Danimal and I create The Garage Band Blues series at a fairly casual pace. We really don't get in too big of a rush to crank out episodes. We bounce around ideas for episodes and when we come across something we like Danimal writes a preliminary script. Once we get a script we like he spends a week or two creating the voice tracks and when he's finished sends the tracks to me. Once I get the voice tracks I spend the next few weeks or so creating the animation. When I'm finished with the animation I post it to the Muvizu site. We then sit back and enjoy the "fruits of our labor" for awhile.

It's a way of doing things that seems to work really well for us.

To answer your question bigwally, I have several projects that haven't seen the "lite of day" yet. I have several more projects that I haven't even started on. Seems to be one of those "too many things to do and not enough time to do them" moments.

The biggest thing I've realized is to just have fun creating animation. If I'm not enjoying what I'm doing what's the point in doing it? I've always loved animation and since I found Muvizu that "spark" has grown a whole lot bigger.]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 18:24:03 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1777-muvizu-withdrawals.aspx couple of days, I can't wait to get to the next one. (Much to my son's behest.) (It behooves me to use such words as behest.)

My big question for all you moguls out there in Muvizuland, how many (approximately) projects have you worked on that have never seen the light of day? Maybe something didn't work, or it just wasn't right in some fashion. I've counted about 5 of them that aren't working for me. What about everyone else?

(Sorry!)]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 15:32:19 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1777-muvizu-withdrawals.aspx I feel like i don't give time to enjoy the work and just want to make more.. Damn you Muvizu for being such an addiction
On a more personal note Dre and I have always wanted to put our stupid humour and ideas on a canvas and never had the money, software or opportunity to do so.
Prior to Tales From Zombietown Dre and myself were lacking direction and focus in our lives, myself even moreso.
With Muvizu, we feel as if we have our first stepping stones to success.
Muvizu has given us the direction and a cause, and for that we can't thank you guys enough.

Sorry for gettin all soppy
JeZZa]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 12:52:31 GMT