Essays
Cutting Great Video Game Trailers
In this video, Jonas Tyroller and professional trailer editor Derek Lieu (you know him from his trailers for Firewatch, Subnautica, Spelunky 2, and a bunch more) spend 45 minutes going through video game trailers and breaking down what does and doesn’t work. I can’t recommend this highly enough if you’re going to be cutting a …
Arguing with Children
And you begin to worry – as you stand, gaping at the adult person who has essentially handed you a toy telephone and said, “it’s for you” – that this might be an impossible conversation to have.
The Parking Lot Pitch
This piece is derived from an older piece I wrote about building movies that work to sell themselves. It was most recently written for game developers, so that’s the form this takes. What I’m going to tell you is not the step-by-step guide of marketing a project: that would be a book, written by a …
What do Artists Do?
This is the most accurate description I’ve yet seen of an artist’s job: Martha Graham’s advice to Agnes de Mille, a fellow choreographer. (As excerpted from Anges’ book “Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham”)
Your Brain, Your Desire, Your Gut, and the World
You have very few trustworthy tools in this life. Learn how to use them.
