30 days of After Effects

Pre Project 2:

I’m going to use the 1st week as a trial run and adapt from there. It might be that I run on a 10 day schedule as opposed to a 7 day schedule depending on how busy I get. That’s a-ok!

Pre-project:

I’ve only made a couple videos of varying (really bad -> pretty bad) quality with AE, so at this point anything is better than nothing. I have a little idea notebook as well as a few docs and a bunch of reference materials. I’ve been watching Jake Bartlett’s and Ben Marriot’s videos for a while now, and while their basic style isn’t really what I’m going for, the amount of information they provide is very invaluable.

There’s gonna be challenges. Work-life balance being one of them. I still have day job. While it’s only a part-time gig that eats 15-20 hours a week, it’s service work so I’m often wiped after a shift and need a couple hours to recover. Furthermore, I have writing that I’m aiming to do during Oct-Nov for a show with a friend that might be debuting in December. If that’s the case, I’ll also be learning some programming and be doing buckets of editing for that as well! It could be dicey from a time management perspective, so I’ve set out a basic rule:

If, in a week there is work, writing work, and video editing outside of this, then no more that 3 days of focus go into this AE project.

Also, I know I have a problem with anxiety sometimes fuxing with my sleep schedule. It makes life generally harder than it needs to be. I got no plan other than trying to keep decent sleep hygiene and hope for the best.