Hello and welcome to all. This is my second blog. I’ve written blogs in the past, mostly just musings of a teenage mind from my early years in college, or of a stressed out mind from my days in school. So with this blog, I’m doing something different. Starting with making the blog on Medium as opposed to wordpress, and making this blog dedicated to my experiences as a designer/animator/video editor/producer. As an exercise for me and for all my readers to lay out the basic guiderails that I will try to stick to in this blog and make it more targeted I'll start by answering a few basic questions - Who, What, When, Where and How. And I know this is long for an about style of page, but if you want to learn more about this blog, feel free to go through it all!
WHO
This blog/journal is the journal of Kartik Lalit, a producer who came into production by learning different disciplines of post production. Initially I started with graphic design and video editing and starting my own YouTube channel (now defunct). And then working on video editing projects for 3 years. The next 4–5 years were spent primarily in animating 2d for ad films, along-with editing. During this time I stepped into visualizing and working with the production teams and bringing scripts to life. I am originally a graduate engineer, but that’s something I haven’t pursued professionally apart from the first 3 months of my career. I have dabbled in live stream broadcasting and UI/UX design. The latter I intend to pursue further in my career.
WHAT
Evidently, this is a blog (or is it?). I will be treating this as a journal to share my experiences as a creative professional who started out as an engineer and through a series of adventurous projects, jobs and trainings became an animator, and video producer. My initial entries lean heavily on my experience of working with companies based out of Delhi NCR (since that is where I still am as I write this).
I’ll also be using this blog to share my insights on how I target my content to the market or to the client (depending on the type of gig) and how my own storytelling journey has brought me to where I am.
On occasion this blog is likely to turn into an advice column.
WHY
Why do this, why start a blog now? Well, over the 9+ years that I have been working in the industry, I’ve had the opportunity to absorb a large amount of information and experience. I’ve also had the opportunity to impart this information and answer a lot of questions for people who want to join the creative content creation industry. So the primary reason for this journal is simple.
To help!
To help new people joining this industry, changing their professions. To help young creatives explore the market, freelance, work, set prices. And to share my mistakes, successes and experiences so people who are walking the same path don’t stumble over the same rocks that I did or get stuck at the same pitfalls that I did.
WHERE
This blog/journal lives on medium for now, but it might evolve and move. I chose medium for now because I want this blog to be focused on my work as a designer. And I’ve found that medium is a good source for design related content. It will also be available via my website (once I figure out how to link it there) kartiklalit.com.
WHEN
I intend for this to be a weekly journal. So a new post every week on Monday IST. I can’t specify a time since my motivation for unpaid projects tends to be low. A personal failing that this is one of my ways to combat.
HOW
This is primarily going to be a journal here, so I’ll leverage my experience to share what I think might be helpful here every week, but I also intend on responding to comments here. So if you have any questions on how to transition from what you do to film/design/Interaction design or if you are struggling to animate something or edit something or anything of that nature, feel free to comment and reach out to me and I’ll be glad to write a post dedicated to your questions.
If you want to see my work then you can visit my website at kartiklalit.com. You can also follow me @kapelalit on Instagram, I don’t yet post regularly but I do post occasionally. You can also write to me if you wish to using comments here, and using the contact page on my website.
