Dave Navarro - Motion Graphics Designer

State of My Union

Digital Bard — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:00:03 +0000

January has been a long month for me… I managed to create 81 new animations and I added several new stock sites to my rotation. You can read more of the details on my MicroStock Blog.

It was too cold outside to shoot any footage, so I spent all my free time learning more about Cinema [...]

Stock Photography

Digital Bard — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:53:13 +0000

Now that I’ve fallen in love with my iSyndica account, I have decided to start doing more with stock photography. I had pretty much abandoned doing stills when I got into stock footage, but as I have preached often lately… diversification is the key. Get your portfolio everywhere you can and create as many income [...]

A New Plan!

Digital Bard — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:03:22 +0000

This blog site is my personal blog. In addition to actual useful information, I also occasionally blog personal stuff. Seeing it all mixed up here has confused even me… So I’m making some changes.

This site will be about me. What I’m up to, things I’m learning, examples of my work, and my personal opinion on [...]

Catching up and cleaning up

Digital Bard — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:33:06 +0000

A new decade has begun and I was long overdue for backing up my data. I bought a few new hard drives in December, but never got around to setting them up in my external RAID backup. So, I finally took care of that. I now have four 2 TB hard drives in my external [...]

How to be a successful Stock Footage Site

Digital Bard — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:24:48 +0000

Being the outspoken person that I am, I run into a LOT of people who either run existing Stock Footage sites, or they are starting up new ones. And I give them tons of (sometimes unsolicited) advice from my perspective. And not just the perspective of an artist who is trying to earn a living [...]

Shades of the past

Digital Bard — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:42:17 +0000

A little less than a year ago I upgraded most of the components of my computer, including a new quad core processor and 8 gigs of RAM. Prior to my upgrade many of my animations would take two to four days to render. But with the new machine even when rendering in Cinema 4D with [...]

A cold winter means less time outdoors…

Digital Bard — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:59:21 +0000

It’s a very cold winter here in Kansas right now. And although I got several nice warm outdoor clothing items, I’m not crazy enough to go outside in 22-inches of snow. So, I’m spending time learning more about using Cinema 4D. A very nice and warm indoor activity that’s productive and cholesterol free.

My main computer [...]

What’s missing in Stock Footage?

Digital Bard — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:42:54 +0000

It seems that just about every week there is a new stock footage site popping up. Lots of people/companies think they can get into the game and make money… Perhaps they can, but you need a niche and you need to spend a LOT of money on marketing.

If you have ever wondered why many agencies [...]

Searching the web with twitter

Digital Bard — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:58 +0000

I have been working hard behind the scenes on my new blog site and I’m a little rusty with web development. I haven’t done any real programming in almost a year now.

Typically, when I get stuck, I’ll jump into Google and do a quick web search for a solution to my problem. However getting useful [...]

Work and ‘no sleep’ don’t mix

Digital Bard — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:19:11 +0000

I have been working hard all weekend, frequently staying up 20 hours before crashing in a heap for a short powernap, then back to work for another 20 hours. So much to do…

Unfortunately, it caught up with me. I was installing a new template on my web site and trying to custom write a few [...]