Thinking Big

I dropped into COFA yesterday to return some books . . . my ability to perpetually renew books has started coming to an end. I ditched the bus back to the station for a walk instead. I find walks interesting. Walking through Hyde Park I noticed this chalked on the side of some steps . . .

I don’t know who did it; I don’t know what they meant by it . . . but I’m choosing to take it as a reminder of some sort of the bigger picture of things. The bigger picture of this project. The bigger picture of life in general.

Over the weekend I listed my backgrounds (approx 27 in total, but only 5 of these are really detailed) and created psd files for most of them. I’ve decided to make them 15 by 20cm at 300 dpi – that is big enough for what I need them for.

On Monday I reached my scheduled quota. Ditto Tuesday. But yesterday I had other things I had to attend to . . . so now I’m kinda a day set back. Or not quite . . . I assigned yesterday, today and tomorrow to working on a shot of the Stork playing with the Baby in midair.

I’m considering postponing this shot until I can talk to Will (who is my supervisor now) about it as I have NO IDEA how to animate it without making the Stork look like it’s trying to harm the Baby. I’m also concerned that the Stork, though improved in design, still isn’t expressive enough. I animated a shot of the Stork looking shocked the other day and I’m not convinced it worked . . . sure it has a pulse, but does it have a soul? I don’t know.

Anyway, got to just keep working now . . . and think big . . . keep the big picture in mind.