Kick

Often times when i'm working on a project, I get on a kick*, where I'll be obsessed with a certain style or design or effect.

When i was working on VideoGame Theater i got on a huge kick of using old school NES style type face for everything.

When I was making UltraForce I had been watching Terminator so when i made the title for UltraForce, it came out almost identical to the Terminator title.

Now, I just recently became obsessed with copyright-free, old-timey, etchings, collected in amazing, huge books you can buy for twenty bucks at Borders. On top of that, I've been watching A LOT of Terry Gilliam animation, which incorporates said images. So when this pot documentary comes out and all the graphics look very very very very very familiar to the opening sequence of Life of Brian- don't be too surprised.

What I'm trying to say is that I'm starting to get nervous that I'm going to start just dropping in banners that say, "sir robin" and "sir gallahad" or "Directed by Terry Jones."

Still, it's not that bad to be taking influence from Gilliam, rather than, "Yeah, I've been making a lot of my stuff look like closed captioning. It's really influential to me."






* technical term