I was watching a documentary last night called "The Pixar Story", great documentary by the way I recomend it to anyone, anyway as I was listening to John Lasseter and how he would stop at nothing to achieve his dream something inside me was re awakened something that I haven't felt in a long time.
I don't mean to give you my life story here but it is kind of neccesary in order to understand what exactly was re awakened. I spent two year in high school in a vocational program called Interactive Multimedia which put to use all of my favorite arts, film, drawing, computers and storytelling. It was through this program that I found animation originally I had wanted to go into film direction but once I took a animation workshop I was sold on the idea. Animation pushed me in new ways learning new computer software, understanding characters and actions and why they were done. I had to get in touch again with my acting side that had been in speech and debate for four years and in and out of school plays and musicals. When I watched "The Pixar Story" I realized that it was not just the characters and movments that made a good movie it was the story. Pixar has been so succesful because their stories are fresh new concepts.
That is my re awakening my love for storytelling, I got so lost in trying to learn to draw again and learn Maya that I forgot about all the other things I liked to do. I need to learn to balance these things stories, characters, and design. The only way I can do that is spend a little bit of time on both which is easier said then done. It is very easy for me to be absorbed in one thing and I have to break out of that. I want to work for Pixar so badly, I want to make these wonderful stories come to life and share them with people and hopeful with enough practice I'll get there someday. In the mean time I started brainstorming a few story ideas in which I want to sketch characters for and keep them in handy for the one chance I might get to pitch them to someone who will like them and have faith in me to direct them.
