• Adobe After Effects

  have an idea for a project, but i dont know if it will work! what do i do?

  Posted by John Damiani on November 7, 2011 at 11:59 am

  i am planning on doing a particular project (i wont go into detail unless i need to), but its going to be a huge undertaking, several days or even possibly weeks! however, i have never done something like this before and i dont know how it will turn out when it all comes together. i have scrapped projects in the past due to this, even after spending many, many hours. i was hoping i could get some suggestions on how to minimize the time spent to discover if a project is feasible or will turn out like expected. thanks for any insight!!!

  Jeff Brown replied 14 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  November 7, 2011 at 3:44 pm

  [john damiani] “i was hoping i could get some suggestions on how to minimize the time spent to discover if a project is feasible or will turn out like expected.”

  Identify the most challenging parts and do small-scale tests before committing a lot of time to the project as a whole. Be ready with a Plan B — an alternate approach — for these challenging components to avoid the need to scrap the entire project if Plan A doesn’t work out.

  What is it that you’re looking to do?

  Walter Soyka
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  John Damiani

  November 8, 2011 at 3:22 am

  i want to create a 3d stage for 2d characters. i was going to try and use lights and particle effects to give it a sort of rave feel. its mainly illumination i need to make work, i dont know if i will be able to get the lights to shine on the images right. if not i will have to scrap it, i havent had much time recently, but tomorrow i will probably start testing it out.

  also, what do you mean by small scale? thank you for your time.
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  Jeff Brown

  November 8, 2011 at 5:11 pm

  “Small scale” for me would be: testing with one character, to see if I can make 5 seconds look right; not setting up a 5-minute comp at the start.
  Big projects are built from lots of small pieces, not by building a big project…

  -jeff

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