I did a few doodles after a very unproductive day. Animation day and sorting the forum tomorrow and Tuesday and Creative Writing on Thursday. Am I excited? Yes, yes I am!
Going Back I tread the halls and find myself uncomforted, the walls the same, the tools the same, the fools still un committed, the ghosts of my past and present arrive, imagined or real I struggle and strive, with the world the same and it's people shallow, to find my comfort, I can't. It's hollow. **** I met the Yorkshire Poet on Tuesday called Ian McMillan and he was fantastic, so I wrote this in response to the last few days.
It is very interesting that despite my animation career I have stumbled upon the road of writing, and it has in the past few months made me struggle in knowing how to define myself when asked. Even the term "define myself" seems a little melodramatic, but as an ex student who's been asked quite a few times whilst serving coffee's what I do I stumble on how to reply. I'm not specifically a writer (yet) due to never being formally trained and of course the lack of publishing credentials don't help. Artistically, despite the last six years I've spent training in drawing and animation I only feel now that the drawings and scribbles I do are only really for me to visualize the color or a character I'm trying to portray through words. In my heart I would like to say that I'm a director without the spine, an artist without the skill and a writer without the credits, so I guess that defines me simply as a "creative". Someone who loves to crea...
Creative Writing was brilliant last night and I got to draw some of my co-writers (which you can see on mu other blog) but it did leave me wondering about my own favourite characters and why I like them, and also why I like character more than I like plot. This is of course just an observation: after all, we are only a couple of people in a wooden and spacious room, but we came to a very sound conclusion about characters, and specifically some main characters. We decided surprisingly that boring characters are what usually make up our main characters. Why? Because we have to be able to replace them in our own personalities to be able to be in that situation. We discovered this with a few examples we discussed and apparently it's known apparently as "The Batman Effect" where a character is actually rather boring, but the setting, the plot and the characters surrounding them are actually far more interesting. So despite the fact the series has been with me with childh...
Loving that guy on the right! Great stuff!
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