FCB Motion. Motion Design, Editing, 3D, Rendering, Teams, Passion Projects and more. This week host Blair Walker has the other Motion Designers from FCB NZ in the Studio. Corban Koschak, Will Brown and Sam Knight sit down to talk about working as a team.

Show Notes: Compiled by Matt Lloyd

00.30 – Introducing the FCB motion team

03.00 – Sam: What's it like getting your head around so many clients as a new addition to the team?

04.00 – A sign of a good freelancer: asking questions early

05.00 – Project file templates, naming conventions

07.25 – Learning Cinema 4D on the job

08.30 – You learn the most when thrown into a real world project vs studying tutorials

09.30 – A drawback of freelancing: if you want to learn new skills, you need to be part of a team

11.00 – Getting over mental blocks to learning new skills

11.30 – Learning Expressions for After Effects, and the perils of using them in team based projects.

12.30 – Editing and motion design as a “black hole” of things to learn.

13.00 – The instant accessibility of highly specific training on the internet can be a drawback: it can lead to patchy, piecemeal comprehension of topics, as opposed to a more rounded, fundamental understanding.

14.40 – Every Frame A Painting analysis of the cinematography of the likes of Roger Deakins

15.15 - “Break down what the masters do”

15.40 – Sources of distilled, succinct content are rare and valuable

16.15 – It's all well and good to watch training content, but you have to make something too, otherwise you'll forget it.

16.45 – Passion projects

17.30 – Will's journey in C4D: from learning the software to developing the skills and confidence to tackle short films

20.00 – Blair encourages the creation of personal projects, even within the workplace at FCB, as he believes this positively influences the team's day-to-day work.

20.22 – Division 05 Style and Strategy as a helpful guide when making creative decisions in the workplace.

21.10 – Corban's solo music projects

22.10 – The importance of music to motion design

22.22 – Sam's meeting with Blair at Nodefest 2017

25.20 – The importance of networking as a freelancer

28.00 – Meeting people in person is key when looking for employees/employers

28.40 – What's it like working with Blair at FCB?

33.00 – The ideal brief “makes the work brainless”: the importance of planning and pre-production.

35.00 – Working with in-house content directors

36.30 – Low budget productions can be the hardest work because problems have to be fixed every step of the way eg tons of post work is required on shoddy footage.

36.50 – Paul Machliss the editor of Baby Driver made cuts as they were shooting

38.00 – How tech is changing workflows: at FCB projects remain in online mode, since there is no longer any need to have grades etc “locked” into an offline edit.

38.33 – ProVideoPicks

Corban: Rubberhose

Inspirational Video

The Shape Of Water

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