A Practical Guide to the Creative Process
As usual, a collection of recent Workflow highlights for you. Enjoy!
A few weeks ago I flew to Moscow to give a talk about the two things main thing I’ve been involved in over the last decade or so: Workflow, and Storyboarding. I named the lecture ‘Fearless Storyboarding’. Here are a few photos, as well as some slides from the presentation:
Continue reading “Workflow Weekly: Fearless Storyboarding, The Origins of Workflow (week #46)”
Everyone loves talking about passion. And yes, passion is a crucial component in your success as a creative professional (and anything else, really). But there’s also something to be said for dispassion. I’m talking about the ability to take a step back and make your decisions not as a passionate emotional artist, but as a cold and calculated pro.
Here’s Mr. Wolf (Harvey Keitel) demonstrating the value of cold, dispassionate professionalism in Trantino’s Pulp Fiction: Continue reading “Workflow Weekly: Disney’s superpower, Dispassion, and more (week #32)”
This here is a 45 minutes lecture I gave at Bron Animation Studios in Vancouver. It’s an overview of the main concepts of the workflow. You might want to watch it before reading the book, especially if videos work well for you as a learning medium. It’s also a bit more detailed than the overview given in the beginning of the book. Check it out:
Just wanted to share this very cool Q&A session with one of my students, Meg (with her permission, of course). Meg is writing a fantasy trilogy. I thought the way she analyzed the situation was awesome, and her savvy questions show the kind of thinking workflow-aware artists develop.
I also think it’s a great showcase for how the workflow lingo makes it easy for one creative to explain what she’s going through, and for another creative to make workflow suggestions.
Here’s the conversation.
![[Video] Structured Chaos: an Introduction to a Universal Creative Workflow](https://theworkflowbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Image-of-Lecture-e1532197002936-1200x417.png)