Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Work to Live. Don't Live to Work. Enjoy the time you have.

It's always important to try and have a little fun with friends and colleagues during stressful times at work.  This is especially true for production type environments.  I wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the fun moments that were caught while filming reference for Civ Revolution, and Pirates.  This is several years old now, but full of fun memories.  Development of a game takes years and these fleeting moments of animator high jinks are just an eye blink in the big picture of what was going on, but it helps keep things in perspective.  Don't take work too seriously.  :)
I should also note for animators, and anyone that has interest, just how powerful and fun filming video reference is.  You quite literally get to play any character you ever wanted.  You get to test your ideas and see which ones are good and which ones can be thrown out.  There is a creative release, and it helps get you out of nasty little spells of creative fatigue.  It's good all around in my book.

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