Project: 0dd.company
A little bit ago, after realizing I needed to do more things with more people, I decided to start a little artist collective, because sometimes that's just what you need to do.
It's one of those things I feel like should have rules or regulations, but it turns out it's just something you can do. You get a couple people you know online into a group chat, pick a name, and declare yourselves an art collective and nobody's really gonna stop you. I recommend it!
For the initial members I reached out to creative people I knew who had been struggling to produce art. Maybe they've been too busy with their career, or life had just become too complicated lately, or perhaps they'd simply been having trouble finishing personal projects.
The last was my own pain point! I would look at things like gamejams and artistic dailies and feel so unworthy as a creator. How could these people in 24 hours build entire games when I can barely publish a blogpost in that time?
And so with these creatives in mind, the concept was to provide inspiration. Every few months, a new inspiration file would be published, and members would be free to take the next couple months, when they could find the time, and make anything they wanted. A poem, a song, a doodle, whatever, just keep the inspiration in mind.
The first piece of inspiration I found for the group was 13 minutes of whale song dedicated to the public domain, and while the group's pretty small I feel like we still got a pretty good variety in the handful of submissions!
Without a bar (low or high) or any real restrictions and a generous timeline, almost everyone got a little something finished. Not all of the original members had time to finish their piece, but there's no stress or judgement. There's always the next piece, and members still get to celebrate the works everyone else produced.
Anyways, I'm happy to announce that the 0dd.company's first gallery: Deepsong is now open for viewing, and I'm really happy with my first piece: Whalefall. I finally found an project to use Orca with, and I learned a lot over the course of the project!
I also broke down my process for making the song on my music page -- though the 0dd Gallery has the way better video version!