The inception of this idea was based on passion and ambition. For a lot of people, this fact may stand true that we try not to take the risky route and in the end we do not experiment. However, I believe that the ambitious people stand tall in the end.
When I was to think of the project that I will submit, I wanted something exciting and challenging. My vision was to know my boundaries and limitation, and how can I stretch and go beyond them. This task required a lot of things that I lacked as a designer. After consultation with my supervisor, I decided to reach out people for additional help. Since I like to believe that I possess skills that surpasses a new graduate’s skill, ideally had to look for people who are superior than me in terms of their skillset. Alas, this also requires the thing which I do not have at this point. I really can’t comprehend why everything is driven by money. I do not know when we as a society will stop putting price tags on art. In their defense it was the skill that I required and at times it is expensive. Safer to say that it is a slippery slope.
People, eventually I ended up asking my friends for help. The team, I would rather call them a dream team was highly undertrained. I was routing very basic things to them. For instance, they were asked to fill colours in 3d models or trace them. Now that I look back ironically this part of the journey started from the idea of procuring skilled people for help and I ended up with some newbies. One thing that I was able draw out of this was fun. Before I distribute work, I categorized work into two sets 1, stuff the only I can do (this includes animation, editing, colour grading ) and 2, stuff any layman can do (colouring and tracing). For example:
Regardless of what we achieve together, which will be beautiful, I truly feel that it was an absolute pleasure to work alongside my dream team.
Arsalan Awais 