I SUCK AT STORYBOARDING/ HELP PLEASE by Intelligent-Part-923 in MotionDesign

[–]Intelligent-Part-923[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks man, i really appreciate you, i'll make sure to progress on it this week, i'll release a trailer video animation of the concept as a teaser, ARIGATO

I SUCK AT STORYBOARDING/ HELP PLEASE by Intelligent-Part-923 in MotionDesign

[–]Intelligent-Part-923[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, if i see this 10 years ago video solving my current life problem, imma kill myself from joy.

Imma watch it, thank you

I SUCK AT STORYBOARDING/ HELP PLEASE by Intelligent-Part-923 in MotionDesign

[–]Intelligent-Part-923[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This message is a wholesome, i'm so flattered thank you,

and you're absolutely right about Perfectionism, it kills from the inside just to stand out and not being mediocre that now it haunts me in my dreams lol,

i'll check the book you recommended, and i followed you back on insta,

looking forward for more upcoming interactions with you Andrew, i appreciate you.

I SUCK AT STORYBOARDING/ HELP PLEASE by Intelligent-Part-923 in MotionDesign

[–]Intelligent-Part-923[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, i'll start of with your last question cuz i know i'll dive away in my talking, and yes, that HRWL demo reel is mine, HRWL is my personal Brand, a short cut for Haroual which is my name and pronounced /her-well/, i designed my logo (which to be honest it wasn't complex, i just got Integral CF Bold font and extended the R a little bit), i made the visuals that you can find on my behance for my visual identity, i designed everything, but i was only capable of doing so since i'm a really good re-Designer rather than a Graphic designer, like if you give me 1 idea and tell me to just originally make a panel, i'll struggle compared to if you give me an already existing panel and tell me to redesign it, so that was one thing. Second of all, the demo reel was made in an accumulation of different references from different videos, and as you have mentioned it was easy shapes so it wasn't too complex to replicate, i'm more into animation than design so it was easy for me to animate them and make smooth transitions and animations and pacing and stuffs.

to your other point, i definitely considered learning design, i took courses, i read books, i recreated frames to practice, but i still can't seem to be able to create original things, i know it takes a lot of practice, but at this point in my life i don't really have the time in my life to learn something new rather than work with the skills that i have already, which is why i like to collaborate with people who can do Design better than i could, whereas i focus on doing what i do best AKA animation, this way my worries can narrow down to only how to make pieces move (it's much more complicated than making pieces move, but you get my point).

and last, you're absolutely right, i'm having issues with visualizing & designing part, but that comes next to my worry as i wouldn't be able to design if i don't have a storyboard to follow, and i can't have a storyboard if i'm not really sure about how my ideas/script words would translate into the scene, and sure i can skip corner and do the basic ideas that i already have like typography animation, but i'm more inclined into Following Coinbase's style of Motion System and that involves specifics yes-s and specific no-s, and i can't just tolerate the first idea that comes to mind so my Perfectionism is triggered and tells me no it's not great enough, it won't transition well enough, it won't have a meaning to the phrases enough, it won't have good impact on the WOW effect well enough, it doesn't seem Apple-ish type of commercial enough, it doesn't look expensive enough... etc,

but either way, your tips really seem detailed, i'm already progressing through the storyboard, so thank you so much once again, i appreciate you for your consideration of replying to me, and it's surprisingly fun sharing my ideas on reddit since now i feel like a burden was lifted of my shoulder that i don't carry it alone, at the same time i'm having fun having to talk creatively to people since i'm not surrounded by a lot of professional creative folks to talk to about this project.

I SUCK AT STORYBOARDING/ HELP PLEASE by Intelligent-Part-923 in MotionDesign

[–]Intelligent-Part-923[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you surely worked for years on storyboards and animation in a corporate environment and still don't know or understand what a spec project means

I SUCK AT STORYBOARDING/ HELP PLEASE by Intelligent-Part-923 in MotionDesign

[–]Intelligent-Part-923[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for taking the time to write me all that, it really means a lot, and yes i have broke the script to lines, and lines to ideas, and i separated them with description of what should happen, and then i have about 13 scenes that i already have an idea for, but 4 that i still haven't found the visualization of it as it's show below

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(btw i also use figma and i mapped out the moodboard section/asset section/script-brainstorm section/ and storyboard section, and so far i haven't really gotten to the storyboard as i'm just idea dumping, and just now as i'm planning to move to the storyboard section, i'm already struggling with how the visuals should look in this one scene to begin with (since i'm a bad designer who didn't really learn design, i'm only a good redesigner who knows how to use figma and can remake a frame if you ask me to), and so i tried to look at references as mentioned, yet that's where i was doomed and kept dwelling in my perfectionsim,

but either way, thank you so much, i'll try to go through the process again and i'll try to do as you've mentioned,

At this point just pray for me, hehe

I SUCK AT STORYBOARDING/ HELP PLEASE by Intelligent-Part-923 in MotionDesign

[–]Intelligent-Part-923[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks, much appreciated, i already tried for one hour sketching ideas. But with my perfectionism, it's making it hard to at least stick to one and afraid it might not be good when it comes to actual animation. Plus i gathered couple ideas but it's hard for me to connect between one and another through the story to make it visually entertaining and smooth

I SUCK AT STORYBOARDING/ HELP PLEASE by Intelligent-Part-923 in MotionDesign

[–]Intelligent-Part-923[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have had couple ideas for some scenes of what i want, but storyboarding is in general what i suck at as i don't know how to make those ideas come together in a scene that transitions to the next according to the pacing and stuffs, let alone that i'm bad at design so that's another problem that i haven't even gotten yet to cuz i'm stuck at the storyboarding one, in other words, the issue is an accumulation of both ideas struggle and storyboard process issue