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Podcast: A Phil Svitek Podcast - A Series From Your 360 Creative Coach
Episode: Studying Anime, Script Revisions, and Human Optimization - 4/24/2023: A Phil Svitek Vlog
Description: I've made some excellent progress with my latest film project, The Arbiters. It's in development and I've been working on the script. About halfway through the first draft, I decided to go back and polish what I had so far thanks to notes I'd written along the way for myself. That, and my collaborate and I met. He gave me excellent notes, which reinforced that what I had written only needed polishing, not a page one rewrite. That felt good. Also what helped me was studying all of Makoto Shinkai's early filmography—movies such as Children Who Chase Lost vo...