The shape of creative ideas
Here’s my claim: experienced creative people do not begin projects with emotive ideas or “stories” (🙄) untethered to a specific medium. Rather, they begin with a sense of what they want to do in a medium they love. Often, the vision is mechanical, basically physical, as in Aaron’s example: “I want to animate a single character in a simple environment.”
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Art is fused with craft; craft is made of practice; and all of it is sort of stretched across the armature of genre.