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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Plans to draw actors

Gulp months and months have gone by since I last wrote but here I am again, I'm still alive and life is kicking. My brother and his girlfriend are going to give birth to a baby in a couple of weeks, sometime after that they're going to get married. I've been working hard in general but slacking off at the gym. I went on holiday to Morocco in September and met a person, he's a man and now we're together. So it takes some time up, going to Morocco and then coming back... and trying to learn a bit of Arabic. Sometimes having a buzzing head too late at night and waking up at exactly the same time in the morning 3 times (but not in a row) feeling spooked.

The cartoon figure drawing group is slipping a bit. I need to revitalise it in the new year by setting something up with a drama college. We draw the actors and pay them to pull funny faces and do the things actors like doing (pretending to be giraffes?). Give up the Hub as it costs too much for such a small turn out of people. Connecting up with actors would be the best thing, because it is relevant to personality and the coming alive of a character. I would also like to do a very small (don't get too ambitious, you're too busy) project involving animating a character to a voice recording by a real actor (rather than me and Garageband and a mic).

Also getting focussed on aims to be a paid character designer sometime within this millenium with the help of Business Coach Anne de Montarlot. Having problems keeping to schedule but successful in keeping on keeping on. Members of the drawing group who are in the business have kindly been giving me advice and some have made successful career changes themselves. Good examples to follow.

I have nailed down the fact that I prefer working inside a company than working freelance. Because, I'm 10 times more motivated when I'm around other people than when I'm sitting around in solitary confinement all day. Why does it take half a life to realise basic things about yourself?

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