So Odd With Scods

18/04/2024

Greetings Tigers! This is Scods, as you may know, we haven't posted for a year now. We're cooking something animated for everyone.

Stay tuned soon, we'll soon be back for more episodes. 🥰

15/02/2023

SCODS IS BACKKKK!!!!😼

A year review is a debate between people that have goals versus people that get demotivated easily. Join us in this week's episode of So Odd with Scods to give tips and how to optimize your year, months, and days by first CHANGING YOUR ATTITUDE.

LISTEN NOW FOR FREE!
https://open.spotify.com/show/4mHjNT823zxcCcDI4dbM3Q?si=e657064d6b16455b

03/01/2023

Happy New Year, Tigers!

Edited this post: Thanks for the patience, due to personal concerns, So Odd With Scods will return on January 18, 2023, Wednesday.

We're Temporarily Disabling social media. And we'll certainly address this through an episode.

But GOOD NEWS! We'll be posting more episodes and welcoming 2023 with a BIG SURPRISE!

#2023

06/12/2022

Not everyone is creative.

You'll lose the meaning of being unique if everyone is creative, so what makes you different? Some people like safety and stability.

Jordan Peterson claims that the CURSE of being creative is that if you don't do anything creative, it'll kill you.

An artist takes more high-risk chances. There's a demand to also learn marketing, sales, and customer support.

You can't just stick to being a starving artist, but many people stay there because they are not that lucky with angel donors, and supporters, and become mindless to other addictions, believing that creativity will save them.

Rather than just keep doing art, also be wise in your decision-making. What creative paths are you taking? Or are you willing to take risks?

You can always be an artist as a sideline, and it may lead you to the path you also wanted. Don't kill people's hopes because that's all they have. However, reality sets in and you realize you need to make money.

Creativity is a skill, just like everything else. Learn to be wise and manage your time in what you are good at; perhaps a career as a manager, teacher, or through internships.

There are so many possibilities for still seeing art around you. And above that... it gives you HOPE that you are creating something BEAUTIFUL, MEANINGFUL, and MORE PEOPLE will see your legacy.

06/12/2022

Thank you so much for the reviews, Tigers!

24/11/2022

They say it's an econnomic issue.

We continue to disagree that "Starving Artists" are forever dead. People may not work in their desired job in a studio, BUT you will continue to stay creative through painting, getting freelance gigs and offering workshops. Continue to improve on your skills and talents. Real artists make money ANYWHERE, ANYTIME!

If you haven't yet tiger, listen to and I'll prove to how artists get jobs too even in View Conference.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4wZ4fUkpvFG8dndlto2L3F?si=da245fd241494eb6

14/11/2022

🎉 🎉You see November we say thank you and "Thanks" seems short and simple, but it turns out, it means a lot to people to feel appreciated and that they mean something. Thanks or "food" at the table are arranged not to only eat but to bond with other people, it's a way to be present. And what are you grateful for❓❓ Find out more ideas this month!

https://sooddwithscods.buzzsprout.com/

02/11/2022

New Episode! "17.🎁 What Artists Get in VIEW Conference?!"

Art isn't just painting. Being creative and working professionally as an artist is the LIMELIGHT of View Conference . View Conference is the biggest computer graphics in Italy and is one most recommended events Scods and prof...

Art isn't just painting. Being creative and working professionally as an artist is the LIMELIGHT of View Conference . View Conference is the biggest comp…

02/11/2022

Thank you so much, Rajiv BelovedBlackmore Lee!

A LOT OF STUFF.... been said. But one thing, I don't regret EVER is I've moved on and am a different person now who has a lot to give.

Catch the talk in his show:
https://therajivshow.wordpress.com/2022/11/02/season-5-reflection-episode-13-with-scods/?fbclid=IwAR2kOtvcwUVUYAmccp6YyF5FKv5-LIlVhaPZryAoo4Wkt8lwb5E9PTQSd9Y

Opening Preview! Hey folks. Welcome back to another episode and I have an super interesting guest and, uh, this is gonna be fun as always, all my episodes are fun. Uh, we met over, uh, on Facebook,…

02/11/2022

We missed you, tigers! THE WAIT IS ALMOST OVER!
Finally, new episodes will BE OUT tomorrow.

21/10/2022

Go and experiment!

For future creators: "𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰"

During the VIEW Conference, "The Future of Immersive Storytelling," the artists from Westworld, HBO, Netflix Research, Nordeus, and Studio Syro share their thoughts for future creators.

They share how VR studies like eye-gaze, sound, and note:
"When you experience something... truly, that makes people immersed—and that is difficult because you get distracted."

The creative problem is making EASTER EGGs fill the user with a world that they can sense and explore more.

The panel mentions that some people like to explore the world, and they like to pause the story, sit and relax in a lake. While others will pressure the user to finish by a certain deadline.

Users can now make stories inside the immersion and choose the stories that they only like to play.

An experience becomes a story that can reach a new audience.



Watch while you still can: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/livestream-registration

21/10/2022

Day 4: 1,000 𝓐.𝓘. 𝓑𝓪𝓫𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓣𝓱𝓸𝓻

Yes, Thor uses A.I. to help them study light, what good colors to follow and what shots look cooler. They use it multiple times!

JAKE MORRISON, Overall VFX Supervisor, and IAN FAILES, Editor, befores & afters-explains that A.I. helps artists decide and spark creativity.

They don't rely on A.I. as the final stage, and it's just part of the rendering process.

𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/livestream-registration

19/10/2022

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

This pitch masterclass was as enjoyable as I wanted them to keep talking. They felt relaxed on stage and familiar with how pitches work.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙢.

To sum up:
-Keep your pitch less than 20 minutes
- Pointers: Genre, Thematic, Logline, 3-Act Story Structure, Animated Worlds, Character, Visual Materials, Presentation Preparation
-Connect with your audience:

Make them laugh if it's comedy. Sometimes, if you remember a sad or painful past, that may make the audience think this is a sad story.

But the most important rule is to connect with people! Bring people to your world!

If you want more lessons like this,

𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/livestream-registration

18/10/2022

So there's many producers that want the animation to still look painted...

Just want to share the lessons I got from DNEG Studio from the View Conference event.

The strategy they use is to highlight the face with rainbow colors in the natural features where light will shine. So that's the forehead, cheeks, tip of the nose, and lower lips.

They blend the colors by hiring 2D painters to paint per frame, so they paint this 4,000 times again—each time the character moves a little. In short, animation is intense!

To watch more animation studio teachings, watch VIEW CONFERENCE until Oct. 16-21.

For Free: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/livestream-registration

18/10/2022

Day 3: Painting a Universe: Exploring the Look of Netflix Entergalactic in VIEW Conference

2𝘿 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 3𝘿 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 (𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘.) 𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙣 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙭!

DNEG Animation Studio had to make the look still feel painted, what they did was to give a kind-of rainbow color highlight in the character's cheeks, nose, gloss of lips, and forehead. They analyzed the facial studies of the actors and learned to explore .

Watch more livestream: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/livestream-registration

17/10/2022

"The Egg" - Lola VFX genius machine to replace doubles face with the actor's body.



Learn more Animation and VFX now:
https://www.viewconference.it/pages/livestream-registration

17/10/2022

Day 2 - 15 Years of Lola VFX

𝘽𝙤𝙮! 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚-𝙪𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙤𝙡𝙙. They hire doubles (they don't have to look like the actor but have similar features like a buck chin and the desired age to duplicate those body parts), merge 2D and 3D paint, and study light and shadow to make features stand out as natural as possible.

The problem is that it's painted per frame, so they are rigorous about painting 500 shots to 4,000 frames.

Kudos to Lola VFX, who were a small studio of 10 people and now work with Marvels and Lucas Films to show they are also studying AI and catching up to technology!

Livestream Now VFX and Animation Talks here: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/livestream-registration

15/10/2022

The best part about being a Tiger (is about to get better).

Don't have plans yet this week? 🅻🅸🅼🅸🆃🅴🅳 🆃🅸🅼🅴-🅾🅵🅵🅴🆁.
Free Ticket: https://www.viewconference.it/pages/livestream-registration

Join or share with your friends!

14/10/2022

New Episode! "16. Michael Jackson: King of Pop"

The fact that he made people happy, made him happier. Michael was also susceptible to getting hurt. Even if it was years ago from his autobiography, Moonwalk, and encouragement from his family and friends, at this moment we’r...

The fact that he made people happy, made him happier. Michael was also susceptible to getting hurt. Even if it was years ago from his autobiography, Moon…

14/10/2022

𝘼 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙤𝙛 "𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙅𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙤𝙣".

𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙪𝙥 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙤𝙥 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 "𝙒𝙚𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙤" 𝙗𝙮 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙚'𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙨!

LISTEN NOW: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5lxQDgGNlNWJ0jrAFQZo2C?si=765f9149c37c41f5

12/10/2022

𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙮𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙩 6 𝙖.𝙢.!

This week, Tigers! 👑

We're going to give a memoir to the Late King of Pop,, Michael Jackson!

And we'll share teachings sorta a documentary of little highlights from Michael's life that children, artists and everyone even Michael (we hope) would be proud to listen too.

09/10/2022

Just when you thought, things are good. It even got better 🐯

01/10/2022

🐯Welcome October!

30/09/2022

Love that line, “I’m always a safe place to talk about scary, weird, awkward conversation.”

There are people tiger that will listen to you.

27/09/2022

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27/09/2022

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10/09/2022

New Episode! "15. Playing the Alone Part"

Most of Scods' interviews and interviewee tend to become uncomfortable when talking about being alone or feeling no one has time to listen to their worries. Being alone could be a perk for an introvert to recharge. But we all...

Most of Scods' interviews and interviewee tend to become uncomfortable when talking about being alone or feeling no one has time to listen to their worri…

31/08/2022

“To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.”
― Michael Jackson