You know. There is a small amount of time, mostly almost every evening between 7 and 9pm, where I am beset by utter frustration.  My want to create is perfectly mimicked by my need to relax and rest from the pressure and ugliness of the working day.

Nothing is more tiresome than opening up Illustrator and Photoshop and After Effects, knowing that in my head there is a scene of such intense aesthetic Porlness so as to overwhelm the average person. Knowing that 1 hour in Illustrator will grant me 10 to 15 layers of shapes and objects of my own design for animating.  Knowing that 1 hour in Photoshop will grant me 3 or 4 amazing backgrounds and textures of my own design to apply to the background and to those aforementioned shapes and objects from Illustrator.  Knowing that 1 to 3 hours in After Effects will not only render these all into a cohesive and subtle motion graphic sequence, but that all manner of effects, ranging from particle systems to Depth of Field dcamera angle in 3d space will be applied to such a sequence.  Knowing that a further hour will grant me the chance to create a soundtrack to add a level of brevity and completeness to the sequence so as to complete this piece for all.  Be that for good or bad it matters not to me.  There will always be (one hopes) as big an audience of appreciation for such things as there is the opposite. Hopefully the agreeable audience is just slightly bigger

But who cares.  It is 9pm,  Whilst I would like to spend the next 3 hours creating a 15 second motion graphic masterpiece to boggle the mind, instead I just sit and try to massage out the knotts and scar tissue of the workday that ruins my psyche.

Hows that for a vent then.