Motion Monday's: Technology
Technology is ever-present in our lives. We go from phone, to tablet, to desktop and the cycle continues. It's a never ending whirlpool of content, engagament, likes and follower counts.
I've recently came close to experiencing what it must feels like to go viral ("viral" what it used to mean in the early days of YouTube, not to the magnitude of now) and I can tell you, it is an exhilirating but also exhausting feeling.
I was tethered to all my internet enabled devices, checking the progress, checking the numbers, engaging with followers... It was exciting...but also draining. After a whole day of spinning in this madness and hyping myself up for more, I started feeling exhausted and empty.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still glad so many people showed interest in my work and I definitely want to keep growing! But being so intensly involved in the hype, focussing all my energy on my devices to stay up to date took a toll on me. I think, this sort of thing also happens on a low level slow burn, when we check social media on a daily basis. We are not hyper focussed but when we are in that bubble, we do tune out our surroundings.
I'm going to make more of an effort to dedicate time to technology and keep it turned off the rest of the time. What about you? Have you experienced being sucked into the hype?
This animation was inspired by the #MotionMonday's challenge as part of the #MotionDesignersEurope community. I created all the shapes in After Effects and used the inbuilt Cinema 4D Geometry Extruder to add depth to the devices. I learned that you can't use @battleaxedotco's #Overloard to send shapes from Illustrator to #AfterEffects, because the extruder won't recognise the fill and shows it as empty/transparent.