Lost Arts and Forgotten Skills #229: Challenge | Recap
I’ve been teaching my daughter how to tie knots. Not shoelace knots. Real knots. The kind of safety, household, and technical knots ou...
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Some day I'd like to follow you from the moment you read the challenge post through your concept design and development process. You always find a great story angle for your examples.
LOL! I do have something you might call a "process"—yesterday we had flash flooding all day so I had a lot of time. Here's what I do--TMI, probably.
1. Read the challenge and make sure I understand it.
2. Look through the links and examples to determine how much time it will take.
3. Scour other challenges looking for inspiration or techniques.
4. Have a cup of coffee.
5. Land on the concept—for this one I was considering how to polish silver, how to iron a dress shirt, or how to set a table Downton Abbey-style. Landed on breaking up like an adult because it was more fun.
6. Have a second cup of coffee.
7. Look through my art library to see if I have something fun to work with.
8. Go to the gym and work out for an hour—my project usually comes together at the gym.
9. Sit at my desk, put on the tv or radio.
10. Lay out a quick storyboard. Start programming.
11. Decide I hate it and then find new art.
12. Get discouraged because it’s not coming out the way I had hoped.
13. Grind through the despair.
14. Look for audio that supports the concept—clicks, sound effects.
15. Test it on my lap top and phone.
16. Ask my husband to look at it.
17. Have a fight because he’s watching cat videos on YouTube and he’s sick of looking at my demos.
18. Publish.
19. Think of 10 things I could have done differently.
20. Check out all the other demos to see what I wish I had done.
Have a great week!
1. Read the challenge and make sure I understand it.
2. Look through the links and examples to determine how much time it will take.
3. Scour other challenges looking for inspiration or techniques.
4. Have a cup of coffee.
5. Land on the concept—for this one I was considering how to polish silver, how to iron a dress shirt, or how to set a table Downton Abbey-style. Landed on breaking up like an adult because it was more fun.
6. Have a second cup of coffee.
7. Look through my art library to see if I have something fun to work with.
8. Go to the gym and work out for an hour—my project usually comes together at the gym.
9. Sit at my desk, put on the tv or radio.
10. Lay out a quick storyboard. Start programming.
11. Decide I hate it and then find new art.
12. Get discouraged because it’s not coming out the way I had hoped.
13. Grind through the despair.
14. Look for audio that supports the concept—clicks, sound effects.
15. Test it on my lap top and phone.
16. Ask my husband to look at it.
17. Have a fight because he’s watching cat videos on YouTube and he’s sick of looking at my demos.
18. Publish.
19. Think of 10 things I could have done differently.
20. Check out all the other demos to see what I wish I had done.
Have a great week!
- This looks like it should be its own post Jodi. I think step 17 is where the magic happens
: )- ;) after 35 years together we know how to resolve our differences.
- The coffee element seems quite important. I will take this on board.
- I love your submissions. They're always so creative! It's nice to see that my process to put the challenge together isn't isolated. I especially feel #11 & 12. Thanks for sharing!
- 11&12 are key to my repertoire. The minute I finish a demo I spend 30 seconds liking it and then I wish I had done something else. :)
