Creative Processes and Flow

1. Planning heavily plays a role in my creative process, it’s almost more fun than the production part because everything is still theoretical. I spend a long time planning out my work and thinking on ideas before I ever create them.
2. I think that it really helps me with my production because at that point I already know everything that I’m making and there’s not a lot of unanswered questions.
3. I think so! Sometimes I hit dry spurts where there’s a lack of ideas but since I’ve planned so many productions just in my notes I can usually bounce off of one of those if I absolutely need to?
4. The main thing that subverts my creative flow process is it gets derailed very easily. I usually am bouncing between a million different things and it’s somewhat difficult to stay thinking about one thing.
5. Being around people creating art reminds me why I enjoy creating art. Sometimes it feels a little tedious to actually sit down and draw for just myself, but I have found that when I sit and just let my mind rest on some bullshit art for a minute and then I’m able to get back into it. Also watching animation is always a good inspiration source, it makes me motivated and be like “oh I could do that”

Flow + Self Management

1. I feel very comfortable breaking down a production into weeks and smaller chunks, but I often go too hard on the gas for too long and get burnt out + then fall further behind on my production than if I just took consistent breaks.
2. I think since my parents are both freelance creatives the self-management + creative flow are like. fused together mentally.
3. I kinda already talked about it but just knowing what a good time to take breaks is? Because sometimes I’ll be super excited to do something + work super hard on it and then realize After that I should’ve taken a break days ago.
4. This year I’ve scheduled weekly days where I can just do things that are not related to my film, and also have broken down my daily tasks by difficulty so I’m not overloading myself with like a week of just awful labor.