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The past few days have been a lesson in learning when to call it quits. For all intents and purposes, I've been done with this project for two weeks. The good thing about this is that I have ample time to tweak and get feedback on the piece, of course the ample time also led to an overly obsessive attention to minor details.
For example, should anyone really need to spend 3 days tweaking a 15 frame transition? It is my hope that the attention to details at that level will show, but at the end of the day, people will most likely not notice, or pick up on something very obvious that I've managed to miss. As a friend of mine commented after showing him the piece, he said, "When you stress out over a detail, I can't tell if you are just being neurotic or that you are just really good at this." I didn't say at the time cuz I'd like the think I'm really that good, but yeah I was just being neurotic.
One of the things I was glad I got feedback on was on was for the titles and credits. During production of the motion graphics elements, I was obsessing over a type treatment that I really wanted to try out, but it didn't fit with the overall styles of the motion graphic pieces I was making for the screens. So I decided to save that for the titles and credits as it felt like something that would work well with my piece. So I spend quite a bit of time making that work and convinced myself that it fits the overall style. But stylisticlly it was such a huge deperture from the actual piece that I decided that it actually took away from the actual content of the film. This was definitely one aspect that I was very glad that I got very constructive feedback on, as if no one had pointed it out, I'd have convinced myself that the very elegant, fine and curvy type treatment actually fits with a CG piece that features a lot of really bold type and hard angles.
I think I found a middle ground with the type treatment, I really like the outline to fill transition for me to completely give up on it, ending up going all caps and a bolder serif font (Breughel Black). It's a good thing to have a departure from my love for San serifs.
