Jobs: Maxim rigid, director

What do you do in your work?

I am a director and artist. I live in Ulyanovsk.

brain routine

The evolution of man has created a stunning design consciousness. Billions of processes that occur in one thousandth of a second, would be a maddening anyone if it were not hiding in the depths of the brain. Cell division, respiration, blood circulation, heart and all organs, hair growth, the electrical impulses in the brain, digestion and other processes of "protection" in the root portions of the brain. Fortunately, we were not allowed to touch them. Consciousness would not overpower, and one one-thousandth of that process. Well, or it would simply captivated by the secretion process or even something, and so went to the day ...

But we clearly exist: complex biological design and the "I" in it. Without the ability to change something, and often even to think about internal processes.

In daily work, I stick to these principles.

It is necessary to separate the working schedule of the mind.

Make a routine of his daily ritual, which eventually turns into automatism. And within that honed the process can not think of the functioning and organization of the work, and clearly just do his own project within the already formed habits and schedules. Calm and focused.

I like to draw an analogy with the solar system. In an infinite universe the night flare stars around her begin to whirl in the dance space asteroids and dust. They fly in circles, stars held together by gravitation, and after a while begin to form planets. Through billions of years on these planets begin to form complex organic compounds, and even billions of years, perhaps, life will be.

In a person's life just a few decades, and the need to pass all the formation of the celestial harmony within. Create a space that will allow to develop freely creative life inside this inner space opera.

Painter and graphic artist

Be carefree, sudden, violent and creative artist can not be, if you want to master a large project.

If you want to make a serious project, it is necessary to come to terms with the idea that the free swimming (bluesky development) accounts for two per cent of the time in the beginning.

After waiting for you everyday work. One and a half years of daily work on the idea, which came up with a completely different person - you, but from the past.

Very often I want to send him and tell him that I am now smarter! I can steeper and sharper to make some aspects. Prohibited. You need to stick to the plan. Endure.

How does your workplace?

In this work I only use Apple computers. The transition from PC to Mac has been very painful. Since the Mac does not exist on 3ds Max, I had to climb on the Maya. Now I remember the horror that brought Windows and all its internal squareness. With creative thinking is forbidden to touch it.

I am currently working on a film with the digital-composer, who lives in England. We have organized the work process through the cloud in mega.co.nz. They tied their external hard drives My Book Thunderbolt ™ Duo with the entire project structure. Now it seems that we simply use the same computer: all scenes can be opened, and look, and edit. An amazing experience. As if we are sitting in the same room.

The team has an animator who lives in Moscow. At first I was a little unclear how to organize the process of remotely directing and comments. But there was a very elegant way: I'm recording video for each frame. It is at times more convenient Skype-conferences. You just thought you spread all the project folder, it instantly syncs, and have no further questions. It can be reviewed at any time.

I remember a funny time when finishing a project for a client in England, I had to buy a hard drive and run to send it through FedEx. The shipment takes 3-4 days. Had a week before the deadline to complete the project. Now it's all done in 10 minutes overall upload to the server.

I remember trying to send money to the musician, with whom we have had cooperation in the distant 2005. All Sberbank employees ran to think, how to send money to Brazil. The process took three hours. I filled out when a wild number of securities. Today, translations are made for 10 seconds with PayPal.

Is there a place in your paper work?

Is recorded in a notebook their ideas and thoughts, as well as make graphs of all the upcoming activities for the year ahead. Over the past years the accumulated mass of notes and notebooks.

I tried to use a time planner, todo-lists and other web / app-services, but for me at times more convenient to make the calendar. I print each month on a separate sheet, hang a calendar on the wall and every night is expunged one day. I like to look at the time from when in front of you on the wall of the year. If you were kept away from the Earth and look at its rotation around the side of the Sun. With digital-charts in my head I do not.

What is your daily routine and what place sport occupies in your life?

The latter study classes in school, I formed a clear view that the creative and sport - is incompatible concepts.

I smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and only did that sitting at a computer for 18 hours.

Sleeping next to the system unit until he his fans all night buzzed in my ear, and in the morning with a headache again taken during this endless process.

The first eight years I lived in the flames of chaos. I thought it was fine - suffer. Thought without suffering is not an artist. I thought that only through suffering can be for something to come. But I was wrong!

For many years I worked heavily, sometimes for two days. I loved to stay up until five in the morning. I liked the fact that I always work, and when I do not work, think about the project, which is engaged. This often leads to periods of devastation and depression. I wanted to drop everything and start another project. Take three days off in the middle of the week. Do anything, but just do not work.

But I got into the hands of a book by Stephen King "On Writing». Killed me, he just sits down to write at 10 am and writes up to 16 hours. I was sure that he was suffering, and the process brings him great pain, and that the essence of creativity of any person - it is a struggle with the pain. But in the book it sounded like a calm and harmony. I radically revised its approach to work and a few years left on the comfort schedule.

Usually it is:

• Six in the morning - the rise. View material which render night, the nomination of a new rendering. Jogging - about 6 kilometers in the surrounding area, shower, breakfast, and at 8:00 I sit down to work.
• Up to 12 hours did not get up. If you absolutely do not have the mood to paint, you can easily organize folders, comment, or do some more technical part of the job, which is not required creative spirit. An hour later, the technical work is already possible to dive into the thick of the project and work quietly.
• After lunch, just sit down for a sequel. And so up to 17 hours.
• In the evening - a book or a movie. Main trick - do not touch the project after five in the evening. The golden rule: exactly at 17:00 to say goodbye to him till the morning. It is very difficult to wait, but it only adds strength to sit happily for the project on the following morning.
• Saturday: morning, swimming pool, on business trips, one week accumulated total weight, because I try not to go to the street in everyday work.
• Sunday: Early morning skiing (in winter), about three hours in the woods. Summer - a bicycle.

Layfhakerstvo from Maxim Zhestkova

I do not watch soap operas. I try to reduce surfing the Internet to zero. Almost do not read the news. From the news mostly Nationalgeographic.com.

During business hours, I do not use the Internet. In the evening, I put the server aploditsya results made during the day, and go read a book.

Of the latter, read books can especially highlight the "Disobedient child of the biosphere"Dolnik and"Managing the brain"Elhonona Goldberg.

In the era of gadgets and the Internet may seem that something has improved. But the creative process is unchanged. Around me the tools, but the essence remains the same as a thousand years ago: you disconnected from all endless news and thoughts are closed in the room and dive into the depths of consciousness, to come up with result.