Incremental upgrades
I’ve been working on my portfolio video in a procedural kind of way, and it’s amazing how fun it is to put it together, take a step back and tackle it the next day after I’ve gotten some perspective. My first version was extremely basic, and my latest version is much tighter, with some text I created from scratch in After Effects.
That said, I have a ton of new ideas today, including a much more dynamic intro box, fine-tuned audio and audio timing, a couple of bounces and such for realism, and a finish taken from our April Fools show.
Better and better!
Meanwhile, I’m trying to find a decent way to showcase it. I’ve found mediaelement.js for wordpress which has helped me present a decent player to all people, but it seems to be taking forever to load, compared to picasa or youtube. While I’ll never have their infrastructure, I might have to do more poking around to make sure it is streaming properly.
It is amazing how long I’ve gone without really pulling these things together. I don’t have a lot of excuses considering how quickly it is coming together now except understanding that I need inspiration and positivity, and the desire to make fun, creative, or even amazing things is easy to step on in the interest of practicality.
I’m not a fan of sacrificing those things in order to be reasonable – if there’s one thing I don’t want, it’s to be told on my deathbed I’ve led a very reasonable life. So, enough of that.
Onward.
I wish I could watch the video but it doesn’t load for me. Or rather, it loads (slowly) and when I hit play all I get is blank black, no sound. :(