The Creative Sandbox is a metaphorical concept that I developed to get myself out of stuck and back into creative play. In a nutshell, it’s the mindspace of being a four-year-old. See, as adults we’ve all learned to be very competent, but too often we’ve forgotten how to play!
However, if you don’t have a lot of experience with design or motion graphics it’s usually best to just keep it simple. It can be easy to muck up your project with over-the-top lower thirds, but at the end of the day a lower third is just a tool to help tell your story, no...
Use painted areas to contain text, as in these creative examples by artist Martha Rich:This approach gives you an opportunity to play with space and color, while recording ideas. A range of different painted marks could be used – splashes / smears / drips etc. It is worth remembering that...
Once either the general doc baseline grid or a text frame custom grid is in play, the First Baseline setting seems to be ignored... but still interferes with the rule-above spacing method. Translation: you can muck around all over with settings for spacing, b...
seat and literally talked to my computer screen: “But, such economic integration was there at the time of the Holocaust – in fact, it fact didn’t it play a role in the narratives spun by Hitler which coaxed (if that is the word) people into playing their role in acts of genocide?
And so, you tend not to have such a pronounced lull. Mills You also talk in the book about what you call the “creative cliff.” What do you mean by that term Alter Actually, it’s not the creative cliff so much as the creative cliff illusion, and it’s an illusion people have ...
However critical and compelling your message is, few people will read it if your writing style makes them feel like they’re wading through a swamp of literary muck. Plus, you need to strike a delicate balance between giving your audience a glimpse into your life and making them unwilling ho...
Eclipses don't happen every day, so you don't want to muck it up by going handheld. To get a perfect shot, plan and practice beforehand Credit: Nuk2013/Shutterstock A total solar eclipse is a rare, maybe once-in-a-lifetime event, but that doesn’t mean you can’t plan for it ...
The unfortunate thing, photographically, is that, unless there is a bunch of wind, there is a build-up of smoke in the air from all of the previous bursts...sometimes enough to muck up your photos of the finale! Thanks for reading!
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