Since approaching this challenge I’ve learned that creative inspiration can come from so many different places, and that one of the incredible things about Animation is how it brings ideas to life that would otherwise be considered crazy. For example, if you watch the film Up from Disney’s Pixar, it’s largely about an old man who’s struggled since the passing…
Category: Tim’s Ten Thousand Hours
Hour 3: 1 Point Perspective – Streets
Damn. This reminded me of school and why I hated art. It really is hard to just draw and make it look good. I have never learned anything about this technique before but after googling how to draw a cartoon room, I ended up here. This image is based off a tutorial on TheVisualInstructor.com. I found myself getting really frustrated…
Hour 2: The Book
The book that stiumalted this project and has reinforced what a difficult task this is was a book called Outliers by Malcom Gladwell. I’d read about the 10,000 hour rule on a number of different channels over the past few years and it seems to be a well established theory in the self improvement space with countless articles on blogs,…
Hour 1: Goals and Reasoning.
This blog and this website will be the landing page for my attempt to become an expert. It all starts with the theory that it takes 10,000 hours of dedicated practice to become an expert in any given topic. As discussed in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. I considered pursuing expertise in my profession, or my existing hobbies however having given it…