Motivation

Being of sound mind, body and attention deficit syndrome, I am often amazed at my level of motivation when working on projects or thinking about them.  Most of the time my motivation is really bad.  And other times, my motivation is so high, I won't do anything else until it is done.

Looking back on the last year or so my motivation has been extremely random.  I'm not one for tedium, I like to see results fast or I lose interest.  One of the ways that keeps me going on projects, especially if they are long sequences is actually working on the final compositing during the creation.  For instance, I'll take single cuts rendered from Cinema 4D into After Effects, do some color fixing and compositing, then immediately take them into Premiere for sound and music for review.

Honestly though, my motivation lies with a foundation of music.  If I don't feel the emotion of what I am trying to create, then I lose motivation... fast.  This is probably the main reason why I'm still doing Tron effects.  Daft Punk created something very special with the Tron soundtrack that for some reason severely resonates with me like very few things do, it's difficult to explain.

So that music is still speaking to me emotionally, so that's what I work on to recreate that emotional epic ride that I felt in the theater.

But, the lack of motivation is exactly what I'm staring down the barrell of right now.

Working on the title sequence for Gorgeous Knight, I've been waiting for musical scores to accompany the intro.  The other three effects shots were easy in comparison, they were simple shots that didn't really require much emotion to complete.  But this intro needs special care to make sure the emotion of the music captures the feeling of the video, and vice versa.  It's all about complimenting each other.

I have yet to get the scores, and every time I sit down with an idea I can't get off the ground.  They are supposed to get me the scores today or sometime really soon, so hopefully I can then understand the emotions and finally have something to work with.