Monday, February 11, 2013

May the Best Idea Win: Animator Lucas Martell Outlines His Ideas Tournament


This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool




One of the main challenges all creatives face is not only generating new ideas for content but also determining which ideas are worth pursuing and which ideas should be discarded. Many new ideas seem great at first, but after several weeks of brainstorming, outlining and writing, too many ideas lead to dead ends and wasted energy. With this in mind, I was happy to come across a recent video podcast posting from award-winning Austin-based animator Lucas Martell focusing on his technique for conceiving new story ideas and discerning which ones to pursue.

I met Lucas back in the fall of 2009 at the DC Shorts Film Festival where we both had shorts screening during the same program. Lucas’ animated short, Pigeon: Impossible, blew me away. His short screened at over 200 festivals around the world and won numerous awards. Check it out below and you’ll see why:


Following the opening night screening, Lucas and I talked at length at one of the after-parties during the festival. On top of creating this amazing short, Lucas happens to be a very funny and generous guy. He created a series of video podcasts explaining his animation process during Pigeon: Impossible so others could learn …



By: Christopher Boone


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