Three days later

Hello again everyone. 

As I write this, I have just finished my 3rd day of my after effects course and just beginning the advanced part today. If there is one thing I can recognise about myself, it's when I get tired. I'm not talking about physical fatigue, but that feeling you might get when you've been concentrating one thing all day like I have all this week. It feels like a mental marathon or any other type of long distance running. I think I've reached that bit in a run where you want to carry on but your body (in this case my brain) wants you to stop. There is no chance of jacking this course in, it's been so good so far, learning all about bits of the software that I didn't really understand or that I needed to take my best guess at...!

So although I want to consolidate today's notes and learnings into someone I can refer to another time, I just want to relax, have a few drinks and unwind, if only to get ready for the onslaught of new techniques and facets of After Effects that I am currently blissfully unaware of this evening. 

So with that I will leave you and say good night. Wish me luck for tomorrow, although I can't moan much - I'm not having to go to work at all this week. 

What a whiny bitch I've become eh?...lol

Peace,

SVD

Cardiff bound...

Well this week I'll be in Cardiff spending my time on an After effects course. I decided about 6months ago that I needed to 'invest' in myself and learn something that I could use in my film making. The more I thought about it, the more I realised that I might actually like a career in VFX. Of course the journey from where I am to where I want to be is a long one, but I hope that this will be the fresh new start that I have been searching for.

The reason that I haven't made any videos recently is a melting pot of excuses, but in all honesty, I grew tired of trying to be someone in front of a camera that felt different to the real me. Sure, being crazy and random is fun and some people like that but the reasons that I started making videos are different now. These days I want to do interesting things with other film makers. I want to learn the craft of the process. I want to be naturally interesting because of the passion I have for the subject matter. 

So this is why during a rainy week in Cardiff, I am spending a week learning some tools of the trade and hopefully be a better after effects user at the end of it. 

Feel free to follow me on this journey for the next 5 days or so, as I intend to post some rambling blogs on YouTube as well as write some drivel on here too...

Tanks for staying interested and speak soon,

Snare.