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I used to work broadcast design. I was (and still am) a beast in Adobe After Effects. It was lucrative for awhile but increasingly tedious. I then became a producer and started making full campaigns for on-air and then, for some stupid reason, I became enamored with and learned flash thus becoming an interactive designer for broadcast networks.
That severely exhausted me so I took a sabbatical and began writing using paper and pencil. It wasn't the programming that killed me, it was the revisions and the file size compression that had me up extra hours of the night.
I wrote a screenplay, then another. Simultaneously, I landed an art director gig at a film production company. That led me to start a community program there to help actors with their skills.
That was my first "directing" gig that wasn't attached to a commercial entity. It was purely artistic exercise and it was liberating. I was used to style guides and quick deadlines. I witnessed how that limited my creativity. I was a robot.
I've spent the last 7 years making independent films and growing as an artist. I have expanded my writing through various outlets. I want to release a couple of poetry books and my second graphic novel because I like to make those between film projects and there is stagnation.
I've never had a huge budget on these films and my next approach is to work with bigger budgets and shit so now I have to create some packages, etc.
This was a decent exercise. Glad I wrote it. Thanks.
- oh and I wrote and produced a play. that was an exhilarating experience to say the least.********
- fucking cool. whats the name of the films and graphic novel?mugwart
- Seconding mugsy's question.garbage
- nothin worth mentioning, smallish personal projects********
- Still love to see! Prefer that stuff than anything elsemugwart
- orly, my next shorts gonna be sick********
- oh and I wrote and produced a play. that was an exhilarating experience to say the least.