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1. Creativity and Flow 1.1 What is Creativity and what is flow? Let‟s start simple and grab the dictionary for a definition of the word creativity. Creativity is the state or quality of being creative. (Dictionary, 2011) Where creative is being explained as: “resulting from originality of thought, expression, etc.; imaginative: creative writing.” (ib.) Meaning that once I lay down my pencil on a piece of paper, draw a line as I‟m imagining it will mean that I‟m in the process of being creative. Hence, than that is my creativity. For me, drawing just a line as I imagine it doesn‟t make my current artwork my new masterpiece. I feel that to be able to do so. To create. To build a foundation for the art that‟s in my head, maybe even for art to come in my head I need a certain state of mind, I need a flow. Without actually trying to mock the English dictionary let us again grab one of the actual references from the dictionary, but now on the word flow. Flow, to proceed continuously and smoothly: Melody flowed from the violin. Or, to circulate: blood flowing through one‟s veins. (ib.) This would be two descriptions that would fit what you need to have to draw lines. Combine these two to be able to produce art. (Not necessarily your masterpiece.) So let us just flow a little bit more information about this all. … creative capacity may to some degree be present in all of us. (e.g. Amabile, 1996; Csikszentmihalyi, 1996; Eysenck, 1993; Guilford, 1950; Sternberg & Lubart, 1995). (Weisberg, 2006) It‟s debatable if everyone has the capability to be fully creative (and to be innovative within this creativity) and is able to create a masterpiece, whether it be animation, a painting or an innovative new technology they invent. There is also a minority view in psychology (e.g. Perkins, 1981; Newell, Shaw, & Simon, 1962; Weisberg, 1980, 1986, 2003), to which I [Weisberg] subscribe that proposes that the thought processes underlying the production of innovations are the same thought processes that underlie our ordinary activities. (Weisberg, 2006) But both of the above come down to the same principle. People, in general, are able to come into the state of being creative and produce original products from or containing their imagination of thought, expression and so forth. As mystical as art has been through all the years with even artworks with this explicitly as expression like René Margritte‟s Ceci n‟est pas une pipe feels closely related to creativity based on their mystical and subjective interpretations of the matter. 1. Creativity and Flow 4
There are two difficulties in discussing research on creativity. Some people, even people with very deep knowledge of psychological phenomena, come to the subject of creativity with the belief that the topic is so mystical and/or subjective that it could never be captured by psychological methods (Sternberg & Lubert, 1996) It‟s just noticeable how seemingly almost everyone that feels creative with the word creative, amongst this everyone are writers like Mihály Csikszentmihalyi, Ken Robinson and Graham Wallas, is willing to write a book about the topic, as there are many opinions about the matter. Some even contradicting the dictionary, for which I can't really blame these authors, as the dictionary seems to be lacking for its description of the word creativity and some of the related. For the matter of this research it's not important whether everyone is able to be creative, but what is important is to notice and know that anyone could be creative and what is needed for this to efficiently be true. Coming down to what has been referred to as flow. Flow is the state you‟re mentally in when you‟re fully immersed in an activity and you‟re getting closer to the goal with a fully energized focus, full involvement and success in the process of the activity. Flow should not be mistaken with the expression to go with the flow, which means to act conform to common behavior patterns with an attitude of calm acceptance. Flow is complete focused motivation, where emotions aren‟t just contained and channeled, but remain positive, energized and aligned with the task at hand during the undergoing of the state. Flow can be recognized by a feeling of rapture during the performance of a task but has also been described by Mihály as a deep focus on nothing but the activity itself, where not even oneself or one‟s emotions are in focus. Meaning there is no distraction from how you feel or what you think, and all focus is purely in the act of the production. Even more, being in flow changes your perception of time, it seems to pass much quicker. I‟ve always learned that enjoying something in a day makes it feels like it passes relatively quick, time seems to go faster. The changed perception of time can be linked to the intrinsically rewarding process. So flow. Or what is also called, being in the Zone. For programmers referred to as Hack Mode. Stock market operators have used the term in the pipe not that rarely for just being in the flow. Flow is positive and is noticeable by others as an increased work environment (happier co-worker), improved productivity (speed goes up) and a better ending (better results). In short, being in a flow results in the following: 1. High level of concentration 2. Merging of action and awareness 3. The loss of self-consiousness 4. The transformation of time 1. Creativity and Flow 5
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Page 7 and 8: Introduction Not a very long time a
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Simplicity is what animators seem t
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Simple thinking Complex effects Ful
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creating a thorough plan that doesn
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Because using the early computer sy
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work you‟re looking at, regardles
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we‟ll see. According to a job des
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day polishing splines, arcs and spa
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It‟s important to allow supervisi
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doesn‟t. For him they were mainly
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- Discuss with supervisor. - Animat
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the animator (like reviews by the s
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By now I‟ve presented the importa
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the final movie too. They might see
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progression of the shot before star
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In management I‟ve noticed while
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already know exactly what pose happ
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(Autodesk Whitepaper - The New Art
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with a limited amount of informatio
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information to be (possibly) presen
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for. Sometimes it is necessary to a
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pop out is simplicity. For every ta
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goals (based off of storyboard and
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up and shut it down instead of a co
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development 22 . Since the tracking
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The same accounts for playing the a
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animation studios, and if it were u
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on it, as well as use it automatica
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offer functionality for this in a r
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guessing right away what the best t
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to focus on only these parts and ma
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een developed through the years for
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data to handle through the years se
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applying it to your objects animati
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allows you to quickly sculpt tweaks
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quickly and easily check your anima
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without worrying about what and whe
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viewing and commenting accordingly
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stimulation might interfere with ac
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of the animating) could need this t
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tools that really helped with the c
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never really ended up using it as f
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But looking at the character from t
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otate around his head took me at mo
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Conclusion The main focus of my res
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management, start using it and twea
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Reference Sources Animation Mentor
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Hoffman, Hans; T. Weeks, Sara; H. H
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