#4

                Last week I pitched my first animation idea but as I was talking about the idea of my character falling out of a tree I was thinking that it was a dumb idea. Usually I hardly spend any time at all thinking of ideas so open ended subject matter works best for me because whatever randomly pops into my head tends to fit the topic. When we were split up into groups talking about our movie ideas I realized that I have a cat named Oscar who has given me a lot of scars and scar is in his name. Boom. In that 30 seconds my animation movie to be “Oscar” was born.

                Recently I noticed that I have no process for coming up with ideas so last week I tried to develop one. I walked around campus focusing on coming up with ideas and revising ideas for “Oscar” but I didn’t have any luck. I just ended up walking into the wrong classrooms. Later I took a bubble bath and spent a lot of time soaking but I couldn’t focus on animation stuff. I kept zoning out and getting off topic. I got an idea for “Oscar” to become better when I was doing a terrible job listening to my friend because I zoned out when the funnier idea just hit me.

                So far having ideas just instantly hit has worked but I feel like I should keep working on developing an idea process. Where did the idea for a girl taking a shower when all of the sudden a cat is on top of a shower head and smacks her in the face come from? I have no idea. I would like to think that ideas come from things around you, so maybe when I was taking my bubble bath that idea entered my subconscious. It’s possible that my subconscious is a collection of excellent ideas, but judging from my recent dreams my subconscious has a lot of issues with homeless people and zombies.