Deviation Actions
Happy New Year’s to everyone. I hope you enjoyed your New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. I welcome you here and hope that all of you inspire me to do more with this year than I did the last. Most people believe the New Year's is a chance for new possibilities and to get start projects that have been putting off for the previous years. While for me it's a contrary to that way of thinking. I’ve always thought the new year is just another day. The only time I take noticed to the day changing is when the workweek ends or when a projects deliverable date is fast approaching. Only as the year comes and past to I realized that measuring time is just depressing and fails to motivate me to carry out anything. This year I want to change how I view time and mark the days off the calendar.
I have put off working on any of the projects I wanted to perform last year. I didn’t even complete my Capstone for my Bachelor as I originally predicted. I now need to finish. I haven’t even keep up with my blog here on Deviant Art as I hoped. Now on reflections on how I spent my time last year I rethink of off my goals and hopes I once had. I have always been jealous of artists. Web cartoonist, those of working movies and films as gifted individuals they succeeded in their dreams while I have to wait in the background. At times, I’ve thought I could only hope for the possibility of carrying out what I dreamed of. Now I realized how I was measuring my achievements and ambitions have been based on someone else’s perspective of what success should be. Now I am thinking of what I want to succeed for myself and how would I measure those achievement.
I now I took some time to consider what I want to carry out during this year, which is 2015. I’m not making these as new year resolutions just some goals to aim for. The first goals are to finish my Bachelor and my Capstone project. I have the basis for the project I just need to set time aside to work on it. I hope that I will be able to stick to the time line proposed back in my changed proposal. With some hard work I should be able to make up for the month, I procrastinated on it. The rest of March will be dedicated to research the design and produce some preliminary sketches. I hope to have the design settled in the next the design within 30 days of posting this blog.
Besides academic goals I also have some creative goals I hope to succeed this year. After reviewing the number of photos I took last year I see that I haven’t posted as many as I could have or even started editing most of them. The ones I took during the 2014 yegDnD Fringe series I only edited a few days worth of shots. I want to change that in 2015. I want to work on more photography project and start learning how to streamline my post processing process. I want to start learning Photoshop to starting taking more control of my photos that Lightroom allows. I have some project in the works that I hope to achieve when the weather improves and may be expand on different type of photography than I have been focusing on. I want to learn more about macro and portrait photography and hope to have some projects to help with this goal. This may involve involving friends to be models or see if I can work some deal with some beginner models or actors to do their head shots or pose for some shoots.
I do wish to start learning video production and 3-D modeling this year. Both have interested me for more than a year now and the more movies I watch and seeing the artistic wonders created on the screen the more, I want to learn to do that myself. I don’t have any ambitions make either of them a new career at this point but hope to be a productive hobby. 3-D modeling is slowly becoming more predominant in the engineering world as BIM slowly is taking over the designing and drafting process. Though I will need to learn how to use BIM 3-D modeling programs I also what to learn the more graphic programs out there. I know this may need me to gain a proper foundation in traditional hand art, which I have starting when I learned manual drafting. To success in computer graphics, I will have to take time to learn more about traditional art, from painting to simple pencil sketching which is also would be a good stress reliever.
The video aspect is closely related to my photography practices. Most DSLRs now have a video recording capacity and majority of them can even record in HD. Since learning that my 60D can record video I always wanted to try my hand in film production. I once wanted to be a screenwriter but even started a few scripts, but like most of my larger writing projects, never completed any of them. Now I want to try my hand at it again and expand into film production. Do I see this progressing to anything more than a simple hobby that if everything works may only be an active YouTube with a handful of subscribers? The simple answer is “no.” Though I do plan to treat this hobby in a professional manner there is still a huge learning curve ahead of me and I do have other interests. Does some of my other interest intersect with this one? In someways they do. What I am learning about lighting can be applied to film production and 3-D animation. 3-D production can be a useful tool for some film productions. However, that isn’t why I don’t think it will progress beyond a hobby that I am passionate about.
Don’t get me wrong if by integrating all my hobbies and passion into something that I can make a career out of I may make the leap. However, to be truthful I cannot see that happening anytime soon. There is much I need to learn just so I have the basics down before I even consider taking it to a professional level. It may take another ten years just to master the simple basics and I am already into the career my educational background reflects. I also don’t see myself being able to get to a level where I can create a stable line of income from doing such productions. I know there have been people that started out as simple hobbyist whom been able to turn their passions into a stable career. Their stories have been inspirational ones and proves it can be done but I like to take a sensible perspective to life. I am in my mid 30s who haven’t embrace his creative side since failing a Professional Writing program back when I was in my 20s. It will take at least a few years to revive my dwindled creative spark to a flame.
That is why the only true goal of this year is to finish my Bachelors since I already invested over six years of my life to it and just want it done. For my creative goals or efforts, I only want to start the process and become more active in them. It means learning the basics on my free time while making sure I don’t become one of those mad creative hermits in their basement. Always working away at their little project but never having anything to show for their work. I know it may take several years to produce something that I would like to present something to the public. The goal is not mastering all the skills I need but taking the first step towards my goals, just taking it one-step at a time as it were. So this is what I am planning to do for the rest of 2015. What do you have planned?
