And so for my first big 2009 project, I’m developing a wonderful new campaign for one of my accounts.
We’re in the middle of developing animatics (a rough cartoon rendition of a TV storyboard done for testing purposes) for one of the launch materials, which happens to feature an all-star cast of geeks.
The animation studio sent my team some initial character design drafts last night, just so we could figure out how to properly illustrate them with the right amount of geekery.
This one particular character was, in our opinion, just about right – except for the lack of some detail.
“We love her flowy dress – it looks just like a daster,” cooed my Creative Director. “And in paisley too! But it needs one more detail to make it really olanaps – a cardigan!”
“Sounds spiffy,” we all agreed. “A flowy paisley dress and a cardigan – that sounds properly geeky, gee whiz!”
And so I strolled in to work this morning, those directions resonating in my head. “It sounds logical,” I told myself. “But I wish the animators could send the re-designs soon, so I would know if the idea actually works in execution…”
And then God spoke. In comes Menggay. And in a stunning stroke of divine intervention, she just so happened to be wearing…
…a flowy paisley dress and a cardigan.
It’s things like this that tell you that the universe is conspiring to grant you success.
Menggay, I am very sorry for posting this exquisitely unflattering picture of you. You were a geeky duckling today, but am absatively posolutely sure you’ll be a gorgeous tan swan when you come back next week from your Weekend of Sin at the beach.
