I was trying to express how hard it is to translate an old dream into reality to my friend Max the other day. When you’ve sat and dreamed about something for so long it starts to pick up tons of bits from your life and how you were feeling at the time and it gets globed on to the dream. It changes slightly to fit into your state of made, or the need at hand. What you end up with, instead of a clear picture, is a muddled one. Using a photograph metaphor, instead of a crisp snapshot, its multi-exposures layered on top of each other, until the original subject becomes unrecognizable or in the least, obscured.
Thats kind of where I am with MMF. Its really diificult. Like jsut drawing him out. Sometimes he has paws, sometimes hands, sometimes hes super fat sometimes really long and skinny. I have a tendency to be over literal with these things. I’m trying to accept the mutability of the subject matter and just go with it. Its very likely the end user wont ever notice. Its the Designer Brain trying to make things as perfect and “correct” as possible.
In the end it just becomes obstacle that keeps me from moving forward on the project. I am 100% committed to getting it done, so I’m done doing that.
The next step is to go through and block out sequences. Roughs, nothing fancy. just so I can see and have it in there! Get it out of my head and onto the page, or screen, or whatever.
Here goes.
