Feeling stuck in a rut with my current abilities I started watching tutorials and decided to really up my game. Since I'm starting a day job I feel a little less pressure to create commercially viable work immediately, which means I can practice and apply to personal work.
But how can I incorporate all of the things I want to learn into personal work? What's the place of motion graphics and graphic design?
Here's what I have now - a body of illustration work with little context and fan art type stuff that was done so I could hashtag it and get attention online. A just started comic that I want to pour all of my ideas into, making it feel loose and unstructured. But maybe my illustrations can be snapshots of the world that I'm building with the comic. Maybe I can create a world where people are reading that comic and I can use motion graphics to animate this world and even create entertainment and corporations that exist in this world.
To use some previously mentioned themes - I want this narrative to take place in the future, but resonate a sense of nostalgia. Image are like old photographs from the future. The lives of people shown in different ways. Snapshots, videos, the comics they read, the music they listen to. It's all set to a blurry soundtrack, wistful and echoing.
It makes you want to pull up your roots and drift around - this place is populated with lost souls. It's Last Exit to Brooklyn, 20 years from now in a multimedia landscape. (Note to self: reread some Hubert Selby Jr)
As long as it's part of this world my projects will fell inspired, cohesive and, more importantly to me, create a larger narrative about the lives of people.
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