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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
I've been writing a few songs recently. About a year and a half into learning guitar, and I know enough chords and rudimetary picking that I've been able to take the thing I'm actually good at (writing) and put it to some notes. I'll probably try an open mic at some point, but I want to be polished on the strings first before I dive that deep.
I've been working on a script & concept art for a live action & VFX short. It's about an American Wild West prospector who finds a meteorite. What's INSIDE that meteorite changes him drastically.
My day job is CGI/VFX & this was and idea I had 20 years ago when I couldn't possibly do it justice. Now, with a lot more experience and skill, (plus today's greatly improved technology) it seems feasible.
It's also an avenue for me to do some script writing. Just because I'm a visual artist, doesn't mean I don't have story ideas.
Will it ever get made? Who knows. I figure I'd need at least $30k USD to film it and pay something to everyone involved, even if they're just friends/associates.
Whatever the case, it's a creative outlet that's different from my day job, and that has been creatively satisfying.
In the 90s I shopped a big budget action heist flick called The Strip. Before Oceans 11 got remade I wanted to do my own version.
Mine is bigger and more violent, based on the Dashiell Hammett novella The Big Knockover. In it, I set up gun emplacements on the Vegas Strip and blew up several casinos.
But this was before CGI. The studio loved the script but thought I was crazy with the scope. They said it would be impossible to produce and cost (gasp) $100 million!
Now I could make the whole thing on a soundstage with an LED screen. Ah well.
Good luck with your project! If you need a beta reader for the script feel free to send it my way.
I don't think it completely shows off my skills, but that's in part working with a client who is slowly working on content. But TheatreBunch has at least launched:
https://gotb.li/ — a site that links to the various resources, easy to type on a phone - "Go TB (TheatreBunch) dot LI (for links)". Yeah, not the best, but I mean, it's short and I threw it in for free. And I can use it for shortlinks later.
https://TheatreBunch.com/ — main site
https://theatrebunch.com/chatting-with-the-helen-hayes-crowd/ — example of a "shorts" page. I'm still tweaking on this which is why it's not linked from the home page. Converting stuff to basically dark mode is process. heh.
I'm still working on updating the logo everywhere on various social media. It is a work in progress.
I am rather proud of that logo, though. I'd iterated on some ideas using AI, and once we had a concept we liked, I outsourced the people/spotlight shapes to a friend, then finished up the logo. We wanted bright colours, and I'm proud of the emphasis on "Bunch" with the colours. Our audience will have no problem with "Theatre", but this thing is called..... theatre something? So the colours help folks remember. At least, I hope. heh.
We've gotten great feedback on the design so far.
She's about to start doing real interviews that we will be posting, so content is about to start flowing. :)
I'm mapping out a plot and setting for a game I'd like to make. Partly for fun and partly to try and diversify my income, although my expectations are low.
I finished my science fiction/magical realism short story "A Máquina de Nostalgia" (The Nostalgia Machine). It's about a machine that, well, "creates" nostalgia in the user. It's about 3300 words, which for me is extremely long. That story took a lot of work and time to write. At least three months since I had the idea. There were numerous revisions, and it felt like I was never going to finish it. I think it is the best story I have ever written, and the feedback I got after all the suggested revisions was extremely positive.
I'm now in the planning phase of my next story, which may be called "O Melhor de Mim" (The Best of Me). It's about a woman who attends a "transformative" coaching seminar, but the changes she undergoes in the following months become progressively more bizarre. Blood Music, The Fly, and Tomie (by Junji Ito) are some of the main references for that story. The story is narrated by her husband.
This is all written in Portuguese so it will be a while before I translate them into English. I realized that translating my stuff is way more complicated than I thought. It is not just a matter of translating, I also have to adapt my stories to another culture.