One thing I’ve learned nearly seven years ago about myself and my AE work (that being my 14th AE year of the now nearly 20) is that I was hitting AE boundaries everyday and it was holding me back. I had a well refined system of solutions and efficiency. Nothing wrong with that, but it gets old, boring, and repetitive fast. You can show work today up against ten years ago and not tell which is newer.
Getting stuck in this cycle does not challenge you to think differently nor motivate any personal progression or learning. You become a simple manufacturer. For a creative mind this can be death itself.
If you want to improve and/or change your work, you must first change your mind, your tools, and goals. Doing this will allow you to start failing again and therefore learning new ways to think and open up your mind to other possible interests or skills you didn’t realize you had. It’s a leap of faith and scary as hell trying something new, but pushes you in finding that next step to better work or life.
For me, it was learning Cinema4D, Turbulencefd, X-Particles, Houdini, and other 3D software. All this over the last six years or so. It allowed me to move forward and get closer to creative visions I was never going to accomplish with AE solely.
And if leaping out of AE completely is not your desire then there are a number of third party tools that keep appearing each month that can give you different styles and looks.
I find following some science and tech profiles on Twitter and YouTube inspirational visually, and mentally. They show a lot of things most people don’t think about daily that can help drive design, VFX, and just gets you thinking outside the box sometimes.
YouTube:
Two Minute Papers
Smarter Everyday
The Slow Mo Guys
Physics Girl
Twitter:
@8infinite8 [Infinite Realities]
@mxsage [Articulation Copy (2)]
@fyfluiddynamics [Fuck Yeah Fluid Dynamics]
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On Oct 14, 2019, at 10:08 AM, Cary Spenser <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
All -
Been creating AE since v3. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised that my work is looking repetitive after 23 years. Pretty embarrassed about it after doing a retrospective of the last 5 years. IT ALL LOOKS THE SAME! ;-)
What to other do to get a fresh breath of creative juice, to break out of the old patterns?
Thanks.
Cary
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