artist catchphrases
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i begin:
each new painstroke is an improvement over the last.
i begin:
each new painstroke is an improvement over the last.
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I kid of course!
[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.[/FONT] - Salvador Dali
A lead artist/mate of mine said that to me once and I liked it.
Doesn't go down too well when said to producers in project meetings though.
(Half kidding, but I do love that guy)
"Now at this point you want to start to really get in there and begin to actually start to define, reeeally go over, bring out a lot of what's going to be going on in this area, so that you can reeeeeeeeally begin to see a lot of what you're starting to get in there and really (paint/sculpt/verb)."
I think designs on "No, it's not just a 2 minute job." are probably the most commonly used around the office for the artists.
(For the programmers it just seems to be "your mam"... *sigh*)
"Would a 10 year old care?"
I'm brain dead at the moment, so I'm sure I'll come up with more later.
-caseyjones
Worst line from me yet.
#1 Rule: "Fix your shit, do your job."
Simple and to the point, I think.
"Tighten the graphics on level 3"
"STOP SENDING ME TDLs!!!"
"ohhhhhhh. Max doesn't like it when i chamfer an edge.."
"Max only took 30 minutes to open this morning.."
"Can I borrow some of your vodka for this redbull..."
"Artists are cheaters, always trying to trick the eye to think that what they see is real." --Another College teacher or two
Favourite angry phrase when Max, (or Zbrush or whatever) crashes: "I will eat our babies, Max."
haha, yeah, and my teacher overheard me saying that while working on something, and he just walks up to me and said "Ah, I see you're in your 'fuck it' mode." Which I now use when I or my peers are too tired to do any more work that day, or when you know no one's gonna notice a certain thing.
oddly enough, I also tend to say
"The details you know people won't give a damn about are very important, yeah they won't notice them, but they will notice the lack of them."
Granted this only really comes into play with realistic/hyper realistic stuff, which is what my one friend and I do at school usually.
"Oh, it's so visceral!" another popular one in the studios, because during a big critique with all the sculpture majors the word "Visceral" was used over 20 times.
and finally "Alright, I'm done let's go get (insert any word for getting drunk)"
and neo_god what is happening in your avatar? Looks like a VJ clip from a club!
One time I drew a sweet robot in High School. Rodney, a dear friend of mine, would ask, "Hey, what's this thing for? What's it do?", trying to make sense of some cluster of gadgets I had drawn in on the arm. People normally would either play along like a good viewer or, not care enough to even wonder about such things and just focus on the skulls, tits, and blood in the picture.
"It's nothing. It's just to make it look cooler," I said.
He gave an unsatisfied, "Oh. Well it looks cool..."
It had inspired me to always try my best to Rodify a concept, or make it meaningful and more believable; at least to a Rodney, who can be very keen.
Quotes I like:
"When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers."
-Colleen C. Barrett
"The question of innovation is linked to what is acceptable."
-Judith Schlanger
Cory, that's my way of thinking for everything i make. I hate it when people don't even try to add some bit of logic for the things they make. You always end up with something better when you give some part of it logic.
Nothing will ever top,
"Did you tighten up those graphics?"
back on topic
I also respond to the question "Are you finished" with "For the most part, I still have some tweaking to do" because I hate saying I'm done with something only to go back into it shortly after declaring it finished.
Comes from the promo movie for the NGage game I worked on a few years back.
this is definitely more of a coder phrase, artists only use it by accident
lucky you, i hear it all the time
also for your consideration :
"i've just this second done something and it doesn't work, can you tell me why it doesn't work"
"i've done my bit, it's someone else's problem now"
and the mighty, all-devouring (although thankfully only heard once) :
"i'm not qualified to do this"
"We are now owned by EA..."
Common in Training Videos:
"Oops, that's not what I meant to do. Ignore what I just did."
Contests and Challenges:
"Hey, Bobo...when are we going to see an update?"
Pimping and Previews:
"Check out my latest gargoyle" - CheapAlert
"Please critique my space marine..."
General Funnies:
"Don't touch the screen, the pixels are still wet."
This one too "Practicallity is key, style comes later"
just do it by eye..
"Needs more lens flare..."
"This is wrong right here.."
"That texture isn't right.."
"The collision isn't accurate right there.."
YA THINK!?
"That would look cool with more bloom.." no, it f'n would not
"Bring the hotness"
"It would be cool if..."
"max just turned gay, and is now assraping my computer"
"...What is it?"
ROFL!! Too true...
"I think it would look good with a hat!" --My loony character design college teacher.
had that once on a next gen game, seriously