I saw this today, it blew my mind: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSBRofhbS/
It’s a series of animated sketches about the misery of corporate life. Unfortunately, it’s in Spanish and there’s no translation. Still, it makes me happy that it’s made only in Spanish. In the end, it makes me feel more confident about what we can produce in Latam.
I like it because it’s funny, absurd, and satirical. I’d like to do something like that. The guy who published the video has clips explaining how he made it. Since it’s made with plasticine, I thought it was two minutes of stop motion, and I thought, “I can do that” (I can’t). Later, he explained that he digitized the plasticine and animated it in Blender. What is Blender? I asked and that’s when I fell down a rabbit hole.
I know Blender is complicated, so I found it funny that, for a moment, I seriously considered spending lots of thime time learning -again- how to use a program (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Notion (?), Adobe Fresco, Audacity, Audition, Procreate…). Never again. I’ll iterate with what I have at hand, and that has to be enough.
To apply one’s imagination is to learn how to start small and to deliberately restrict one’s own ideas in order to make the leap and begin to create.