Inspiring Music

When I’m working I find music quite helpful, whether I’m doing it for a client or not I always use music. I find that I have a very broad taste in music from rock to even classical. When I work I have to find a piece of music that fits the mood I’m in at the time and it has to fit the art work I’m producing, but I often seem to listen to soundtracks. So here are some YouTube videos that I listen to when I’m working:



"I’m not a hero" by Hans Zimmer is a fantastic piece of music, it’s quite helpful when I’m trying to produce Mono tone imagery. I love the way Hans breaks the old fashion mould of music by creating interesting ways to achieve new sounds, just like the way i like to work, by finding new ways to create imagery that speaks to people in a different, creative way and shows them a new direction to achieve there goal.



This is a fantastic film and another fantastic sound track brought to you by the creative genius, John Murphy.I listen to Sunshine Soundtrack Kanada's Death, Pt. 2 (Adagio in D Minor) when I’m creating space-type images, movies in "AfterEffects". I chose this song because it’s got that feeling for survival in it with the heart beat style drums, but then it switch’s to a more calm, string sound which is relaxing. SO basically it messes with your feelings which helps me create out of the ordinary space themed multimedia.



"Wars" by "HURT" is a really inspiring rock song for me, when i listen to it helps me create war like multimedia from explosive title screens to photoshop imagery. I like the heavy rock tune mixed with a bit Prince of Persia background theme. 

I like and use many more songs and here is a small recent list that i use:

- Green Onions
- Money
- Blues Brothers OST
- Last Samurai OST
- Aimee Mann's version of "One"
- 28 Weeks Later Theme

Design Inspirations :

It’s hard to find just one person that inspires me because I’m interested in so many things like 3D animation, Special Effects, Web design, album art, poster design, music and much more. If I had narrow it down I think I would have to say that PIXAR, HANS ZIMMER, TIM BURTON are my all time muses.



PIXAR:

I chose Pixar because it’s been such an influential company throughout my entire life, I mean the way they create there 3D characters from start to finish is fascinating, some people hate watching the processes but I love it. I’m a big fan of animation but I do prefer the 3D side to it; it’s just the way that they render there models and create such fantastic, ornate scenes and characters. I’ll never forget the first time I saw TOY STORY, it was just ingenious because of the way that the characters resembled there voice actors, the way each character had its own individual movement and the one of the most important things of all in film, the way it captivates both children and adults into the simple story by using combinations of slapstick comedy and jokes that both adults and children can laugh too. Every year PIXAR seem to be getting even better at creating fantastic characters, fantastic story’s and jaw dropping environments for example the look and physics of sully’s fur in MONSTERS INC. I hope to one day be able to create 3D characters worthy of PIXAR!!!