Stagnation

Since school ended, I've ended up with a lot of free time... but it's turned into more stagnant time than anything else. More relaxing, spending time with the wife, and even playing video games. The last time I pushed myself was using Cinema 4D for some opening animations for my only client Fusion Radio.

Fusion Radio is turning more and more into an at-the-last-second kind of client. For the last Comcast content, they decided to have a meeting on Saturday with the due date being the following Monday. At that meeting there were several changes that required me to re-render everything and I got it done late Sunday night just in time for them.

And they had 2+ weeks to get it finalized.

And then just recently they wanted a simple promo for their Pump Pavilion booth, for the NEXT day. But all they wanted was to change the color scheme and text on a previous animation I did for them on Valentines Day.

They even planned to do a commercial and asked for my help more than a week before they wanted to finish it. I of course said yes, but then after that... nothing, only to scrap the project a week later because they didn't have time.

In my opinion, they aren't using me enough.

They bought an HD camcorder a few weeks ago. It's a nice camera, but it's 1080i and DV tape based. I have NOTHING against DV, I think it's a great standard format, but it just doesn't fit their business style. For one thing, they lack someone with the knowledge of video editing and capturing from DV based cameras, plus a video camera that was hard drive based AVCHD would have been better suited for them because it would have been easier and faster to go from Shot-to-Post.

But they didn't consult me.

After they bought the camera they had several issues and had dozens of questions for me. And when they learned of AVCHD cameras and the benefits, they were a little disappointed because they couldn't return the camera... they eBay'd it!

I wish they would use me more. Sometimes it's a whole week before I get an email from them, and it's usually about 1am in the morning when I get it.

Don't get me wrong, I like the guys I work with at Fusion. They are a smart, collective bunch. But I just want soooo much more from our relationship, but it might take a while to get there.

In the mean time, I've got The Missing Bank Card 3 coming around the corner and I am super excited, plus some films with DuPage Film Group hopefully coming up afterwards. I have done lots of motion graphcs in the past 8 months but no films, hopefully the 2nd half of 2010 will be more productive.