Inspiration
I’ve become a pretty serious Google Reader user. As you can see below, I’ve got 90 subscriptions and I can’t keep up. That’s pretty hard for me considering my obsessive habit of trying to keep my email completely free of any unread mail. It pains me every time I look at Reader and see all of those unread feeds. I’m getting more an more used to it, but as a result of having so many feeds, I’ve been neglecting one folder I have titled “Inspiration”. The funny thing is that right now I only have 1 feed in that folder, Motionographer. Motionographer states they seek to be an inspiration to filmmakers, annimators, and designers, of which I consider myself to fall somewhere within those groups. Tonight I started weeding through some reels they linked to.
Lindsay Daniels really has a great reel that I watched probably 5 times just to take it all in. It inspires me to take some of the strobist stuff I’ve been learning for photography and to translate that care and planning in a shot into video.
I need to take more time to be inspired I think. I spend too much time trying to create and don’t sit back and soak things in enough.
The transitions in her reel are amazing, very impressive.
Since youre always watching the motion scene Im sure you’ve seen these, they’re my favorite motion artists:
Chris Hewitt of Dstrukt
Wyld Stallyons – Chris Hewitt is a member of this group, you’ll see some of his work repeated here.
Psyop – Maybe one of the most popular motion companies out there?
Oh, I know you’re not soliciting for Google Reader advice, but…we have a lot of the same folders, but I also have a “frequented” folder. It’s full of feeds that I like to make sure I check daily. I have Google Reader default to that folder when I visit Reader. Before I created the “frequented” folder I was hopping around all over the place. I’d easily spend too much time checking my feeds. Nowadays I can read all my frequented feeds and move on. If I have time to move to the other folders, I might.
Anywho, thanks for sharing Daniels work!