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[Lanni]

How many of you keep a journal, notes or something on modeling, materials, etc... and if so what is your process of doing so?

 

[ August 26, 2002, 07:47 PM: Message edited by: Lanni ]

[nisus]

Hi Lanni,

 

The notes that I keep are structural sketches, used for explaining modelling techniques to my collegues. Next to storyboards/pre-visuals of course...

All sketches are bundled in a map, the oldest one to the back.

 

On materials we use a material library, which we extend during every project.

 

For articles, software references and so on, I have a few drawers stuffed with all colored printouts - I like taking notes - on about anything that cuts my interest.

 

For books I use a hierarchical structure:

from less important to very important

- underline

- vertical line to the side + keywords

- circle around pagenumber

- note of page number + keywords on the first page of the book

This way, I can very easily find the most important issues of a book within a few seconds.

While looking through the book again, I can find small thoughts that make me smile because I somehow forgot how an author wrote something

For reference about what topics to find in what book, I seem to have a good memory

 

rgds

 

nisus

[STRAT]

i have my big black A4 diary which i use day to day for meetings notes, briefs, phonecall notes, sketching ideas etc etc...

 

for modelling and rendering notes i usually rely on the 3d model files. i save incrimental backups durring a project so i've allways got various settings and options saved throughout a project.

 

this is a great rescource for me - i use all these past jobs and project files as 'templates' for my next job. just pick and choose as i please.