May16
Do you trust your instincts?
Do you get hit with the right path early on and go for it? Does almost every part of you tell you that you should be going a particular direction?
I’m finding, while working on Cosmo and Fluffy Gardens before it, that these questions are important when it comes to show creation and its many elements – design, sound, story and so on. But they are probably just as important to almost every area of our life, including work and parenting. We look to our instincts for guidance. To give us that ‘soul’ beyond just cold logic.
But sometimes what we think are instincts are simply habits.
They aren’t the same thing.
And yet, when being driven by either, they are very hard to tell apart.
It’s just one small example but I created the look for Fluffy Gardens while drawing with a mouse. A computer mouse. Not a rodent. That would have been very different. But I just had to do something to break out of my bad drawing instincts/habits that have haunted me since my teenage years and drawing badly with a mouse was one way of doing that. That simple big-eyed look has now become part of who I am.
Sometimes it’s worth challenging our instincts, deliberately going against them, to test if they really weren’t just habits all along. In the process, we can make way for our true instincts, or discover something entirely new.
Give it a try – the results might surprise you.
Tags: animation, design, Fluffy Gardens
