In Horoma's Head 01
Little preview of a scene I've been putting together for my course
Hi everyone,
Here we are in the first installment of this new In Horoma's Head newsletter. Hopefully I'll manage to keep it consistent (12 emails should be fine, right? 😁) and keep you interested.
In Horoma's Head newsletter is a simple, monthly approach, that is just my way of sharing what I have been up to every month in the hope, as usual, to start a conversation with any of you, if any of the topic raised interest!
So let's get started. 🐏🐏🐏
Having upgraded a bit my recording gear makes the process of recording more intuitive and seamless, which is quite nice. Still have this audio issue to fix once and for all though.
Teaching makes perfect 🐥🐤🐣
This year I'm trying to spend more time on the teaching side of archviz. It's a part I enjoy a lot for two reasons : it helps people learning new ways of doing things, or new points of views on the industry, and it helps me clarifying my own thoughts about my work in general. Oh and it also breaks the little routine that might come after working all week long on commissioned projects.
This translates into my attempt at releasing about 3 videos per month on the YT channel.
This last month covered that good **ol' new year's resolutions theme**, as well as **introduced more properly the channel**, and a new type of teardown that so far has been really enjoyable to record.
I'm hoping that all this clarification will help driving interest to the channel from archviz artists and build enthusiasm for the upcoming videos. If you haven't subscribed yet, I'd be glad if you did so, and would be even great if you shared the channel around to other people you think might benefit from the content I intend to cover.
While of course everyone on Youtube is after proper growth for their channel, I'm still happy to see that I find the process of thinking, structuring, recording and uploading really fun and rewarding even though most videos don't go over 500 views. Hence why I'm confident I should be able to keep the rhythm for this year to come.
The world of tech problems 😨😩
Any new venture comes with its share of technical issues. Recording stuff is fun, but setting properly your camera and mic in OBS is surprisingly more complicated than one would think. Especially when you discover stuttering recordings only after you've recorded everything, and end up needing to record everything again 😁
I'm also having fun with all the platforms hosting issues that will be necessary for the live course. Fun fun fun.
Some books I read in the past few weeks. If you want a proper breakdown and recommendations by genre don't hesitate to ask 😊
The world of books 🤓
I've been reading a lot lately, mainly for work. This led to really nice discoveries. Just one I want to mention that I finished a couple of days ago
Photographing Architecture and Interiors by Julius Shulman. Really interesting book written by Shulman himself, that gives a nice overview of how to take photos of a space, as well as how to treat the business relationship with your architect client. Some parts are outdated, but it still is a nice read. Also, for those of you who are not familiar with Shulman's work, I highly recommend googling him, or, better, finding some of his monographs in your local bookstore and flick through them. Whether for interiors or exteriors, Julius had an eye for compelling compositions.
Also I intend to start the series written by Ansel Adams, which is supposed to cover his workflow quite in-depth. Maybe some interesting pieces there for practicing artists, but it's mostly out of curiosity that I want to look into it.
Now that I'm a bit overdosed with theory and work, I'm coming back to some simpler sci-fi classics with Aldous Huxley's Island.
Interestingly you can get many rendering ideas from just reading books.
Figma file for my wip landing page before putting it into squarespace a making it look good
### First class 👁🧠🙈
I'll do a proper launch very soon, but I've been putting together a super-mega-in-depth live course for the past... year? (hence all the book reading)
I'll be running the closed beta next week-end. Needless to say I'm 50% excited 50% scared of an epic fail. But it does feel nice to see this finally coming together and I can't wait to present it properly to all the artists out there looking for a proper course to learn the craft.
I'm usually very demanding when it comes to clarifying concepts in order to teach them properly, and I'm genuinely happy and satisfied with how this is all coming together (all my notes are starting to look a bit scary though). So yep, I'm looking forward to sharing more with you.
Building affinities for Affinity 🤞🤞🤞
Since I'm a bit fed up with Photoshop pricing system and inability to fix some bugs since ... forever.... I'll try to put my Affinity licence to good use and hopefully manage to transition there over the coming weeks or month. I'm not doing much postproduction lately since I was focused on my course and took few contracts, but we'll see how it goes.
Graph view of all my notes from Roam Research
Productivity x1000 💪💪💪
It's always good to be organized. I won't turn this newsletter and channel into one of those productivity thing, but I thought it would be worth mentioning that 99% of my work management that is 3d related is done on a nice web-app called Roam Research.
If you like taking notes about everything and keeping them neat and tidy, this will most probably help.
I definitely wouldn't have been able to summarize all my notes and incorporate them seamlessly in my course without this awesome tool.
That will be all for the moment. Hope this little overview of In Horoma's Head gave you some interesting pieces to think about. Topics will definitely be quite random every month and purely based on what I've been up to. Next month I'll definitely let you know how did the beta go, and other stuff that might happen as well.
If you find this utterly boring and useless, please let me know before unsubscribing 😋 And if you find this interesting, I'm glad.
All the best for the upcoming month!
Cheers
Simon