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5. The process is intrinsically rewarding Personally I‟ve experienced such a flow in personal brainstorm sessions, but I have also experienced similar flow-like feelings while sketching out different styles for a concept. There has also been one animation project, which was created at a high speed in a limited amount of time, where almost the entire animation was done in one flow. This was a 2D animation made in Flash. For me, flow can be induced by others in a project in which you work together. How this happens will be discussed in the next paragraph. Being in a flow gets good results, great productivity and it feels great. A flow getting broken is therefore a waste, it is important that when flow can be reached and gets reached that it should be maintained and used to your advantage for the longest possible amount of time. The word flow with the meaning as described above has – so I feel - a bit of a philosophical touch to it, which for me dissociates it from something that improves the production in the way that it does, namely positive. For me, what works to let this „philosophical‟ meaning of the word flow go is to adjust it into calling it: “workflow.” This makes it more personal and makes it correspond to the idea that you want to create something. So. Workflow. It‟s to keep in mind that the word workflow – which will be described later in this chapter - in itself already relates to part of the production instead of the state the user is in while producing. Even more, for many others the word flow by itself might just be what they want as reference to the definition as mentioned and thus will be used in the remainder of this paper. 1. Creativity and Flow 6
1.2 How can a flow be maintained or broken? According to Mihály a Flow will only be achieved when you‟re in a field where your skill level (at that moment) is in balance with the challenge of the goals. If you would perform within a high skill level, but the job would be easily doable you would be in control or even in relaxation. If you‟re trying to achieve something extremely difficult (high challenge) but don‟t have the skills you‟ll get to a point of anxiety. If the challenge for you is less you‟ll pass the flow channel and get to boredom. (Csíkszentmihályi, 1997) Left: the relation of challenge relative to skill clarifying the resulting states. (Csikszentmihalyi, 2008) Right: the relation between challenge and skill clarifying the flow channel. (ib.) The right image shows that performing a „low‟ challenge with „low‟ skills still results within the flow channel, but it should be noted that the challenge then is still high for the user. He‟s still being challenged on his skills enough to get in the flow. The images can seem contradictory, but it is really more about balance than the challenge level or skill level on its own. Mihály also states that flow can‟t be initiated (as in forced) by the user and is unpredictable. Though, he mentions that there are a couple of conditions that remain necessary for getting to the state of a flow. 1. Have a clear goal. 2. A balance of challenge and skill. (images above) 3. Task must have immediate and clear feedback. 4. Sense of control. He says that if there‟s no goal, there‟s no way to check if you‟re going in the right direction and know that you‟re creating the right thing. There just doesn‟t seem to be „flow‟ in not going anywhere, you‟re just being merely lucky. With point two he means that you must have confidence in being able to do the task. The immediate and clear feedback gives the ability to adjust the performance to maintain the state of the flow. 1. Creativity and Flow 7
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Page 7 and 8: Introduction Not a very long time a
Page 9 and 10: This is all evolving around the mai
Page 11: There are two difficulties in discu
Page 15 and 16: this piece of art - posing the char
Page 17 and 18: You know that feeling when you watc
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Page 21 and 22: 2.1 Animating like a puppeteer. (St
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Page 25 and 26: everything done smoothly at the mom
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Page 29 and 30: This paragraph is about what in gen
Page 31 and 32: “Too much action spoils the actin
Page 33 and 34: working clean and keeping your head
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Page 37 and 38: the motion and action of the charac
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Page 41 and 42: It‟s hard to have a clear distinc
Page 43 and 44: the background. Any distraction at
Page 45 and 46: or the mixed approach as described
Page 47 and 48: customizing and tweaking the whole
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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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A picture depicting an overview of
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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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As stated we worked faster and were
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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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1. Workflow and Pipeline clarificat
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