AEPDX – Alphabest
This month we're participating in the #AEPDX user group challenge Alphabest. Here are some screenshots and character designs curtailing to the piece we submitted. Enjoy!
Thought I'd write a little about my hopes and dreams for the new year. 2015 was huge for me in terms of a lot of life changes. I managed to work on a lot of interesting and fun projects last year. These are my simple wishes for 2016 for everyone, not just me: I hope you're given struggles that promote growth and wisdom instead of simple turmoil. I hope you appreciate your friends and family, whether blood relatives or those you choose to be your family. I hope you love each other more. I hope you experience more smiles, less tears, and develop more resiliency. I hope you wrestle some of your faults and vices into submission, or at the very least
I wanted to write today about a subject that is very close to my heart. It's a universal trait that all humans share, and which almost everyone struggles with throughout their lives. However for professional creatives, it tends to be a need that is a bit louder, a bit more pervasive in everyday life. One of my good friends says this is probably because professional creatives tend to be a bit more emo about things. They're more aware of it overall. I would agree that this is probably true. I'm talking about an inner struggle that I like to call Feeding the Beast. The Beast exists in everyone, and its demands seem to be simple; work on something you are invested
One thing I have learned as a professional creative is that large personal projects tend to be better tackled as a long term, part time endeavor. Also that giving up on them is usually not in my blood and not an option for me, even if the end product ends up being less then ideal. Something finished is better then things that are half done and sitting in the archives of dead ideas in my hard drive. Right now I'm working on a few long term personal projects. One of which is a science fiction short film titled NF Core 01. The story alone had been marinating in my head for about a year before I even wrote it down at