A lot of what I make can be considered pretty weird. A startling revelation, I’m sure.
But when is it appropriate to be weird? And what even is ‘weird’?
Read MoreBelow is an archive of blog-posts and articles published by todolaMEDIA. After a brief hiatus due to an injury there will be at least one article every other Monday published here for all of 2022. These will be on a variety of topics of primarily of interest to animators, designers, filmmakers, and other creative-types. Along with that any announcements or behind-the-scenes content for todolaMEDIA related projects will be shared here.
… Unless I forget to hit publish—it’s happened before.
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A lot of what I make can be considered pretty weird. A startling revelation, I’m sure.
But when is it appropriate to be weird? And what even is ‘weird’?
Read MoreI’ve been thinking about something recently.
There’s many styles and approaches that one could take when writing one, particularly a less personal one like this…
Read MoreSince at least as far back as Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937 we’ve seen depictions of evil rulers in animation. In fact, the idea of an cartoon villain who doubles as the evil king or queen is pretty cliché at this point. So that got me thinking… how realistic are these evil rulers?
Read MoreUuuuhhh… my head… I knew I shouldn’t have drunk all that chocolate milk…. Wait…. Where am I? This isn’t my blog… Wait, I remember now. Reece wanted to do a blog swap. I was meant to come up with something wasn’t I? Oh dear… Alright Red’s get it together; you can come up with something I’m sure.
Read MoreEver since first reading David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” I've been writing down my all my goals. And these goals are been something I’ve put a lot of time and consideration into. Being tasked to write down a list of them was thus an interesting chance for me to also reflect on the fourth, and in my experience one of the most important types of goal to write down.
Read MoreWhen I first began doing graphic design my designs looked nothing like they do today. In 2014 I had a task to create a layout for a (fake) multimedia magazine. I had to produce everything from scratch, including coming up with a name. I first came up with something basic, I was going to call it “Everything Media Magazine.” Then I thought that perhaps I might try something a little more playful.
Read MoreBack in September I started my third and final year at University (technically my fourth, but let’s not get into that right now). One of the more peculiar modules I had was one called “Animation & Stop Motion Futures and Destinations”, a module about introspection and planning for my future career, with an early task really jumped out at me: a blog-post about our goals.
Read MoreIn short: Starting tomorrow there will be a blog update every two weeks under the name cadaDOSsemanas.
In long: Well, you’ll have to read the blog post.
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