Always a nice message to hear, but oh my I cannot stand that trend of moving types with bold accents and all that jazz. It would be so much stronger as a simple audio stream with no video honestly
Agree with Pior, that kind of wow graphic design voice to text video trend is inflitrating everything, and its so aggravating - its definitely not 'cool' - Soon I will have a rocking chair, and I'll be on my porch with a shotgun.
Some people never make it out of that phase. Once YOU think your work is good enough it's too late. Something bigger, something better, and something even farther out of what you think your "league" is will come along..it's at that point that you decide to climb that wall and face the challenge or back away and continue to improve your craft until you reach the level that you think could be competitive. At least this is my opinion, and everyone's opinion is different.
I like the idea of piling on work, piling on deadlines, and making professional progress so that you reach that level of quality that you strive for in a quicker time, but the double edged sword to that is if you do too much too fast you burn yourself out. All things in moderation until closing the gap becomes simple.
I think this is a big problem in the industry, probably every industry that exists. Is that people rarely talk about hardship. When people do talk about it they often talk in a ignorant way that makes it feel like they never had any hardships. They only thing they say is work more, as true as that sentences is they need to express their own hardship to put some weight behind it. A simple sentence as you are not alone adds more weight behind those words and adds a bit of emphasis. Can't understand why that is so hard to do when it helps so much.
Always a nice message to hear, but oh my I cannot stand that trend of moving types with bold accents and all that jazz. It would be so much stronger as a simple audio stream with no video honestly
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Would've fit much better as a nice article instead of a "feel good about myself" video :P
I only wonder if an artist can ever reach a point where he/she is satisfied with his/her own art.
i honestly think i`ll never be because every time i learn something new and get a bit better is see all the flaws i still have.
Agree with Pior, that kind of wow graphic design voice to text video trend is inflitrating everything, and its so aggravating - its definitely not 'cool' - Soon I will have a rocking chair, and I'll be on my porch with a shotgun.
I kind of like it but, really, once you see that's what it's going to be, you can ALT+TAB away and just listen to it. Right?
At any rate, I don't think this would have nearly the impact in just text form or a blog entry. I saw the original a number of months back and it was just text at first. I liked it but once I heard him saying the words, it was way more powerful.
Because NPR does radio almost every story (except their blogs) has audio and can be que'ed up into their web player. So it's great to pick a few stories and have that playing in the background while I work. Which makes it easier to get cool stories and news while skipping over all of the political BS.
Also... NPR plays "Science Friday" which has a lot of cool and interesting content.
It's static, it's cold, it's has no emotion or visualized moment context images, like say the end letter when the word imagination/creative, etc are used. Talk about an inspiring message not being in an inspiring video.
Just because you learned how to use animated texts in AE, doesn't mean you should put it on everything, put in some effort plox.
Anyhow, as for the message, it's great, chance are you can change a few words around, and you can apply to any field.
As once someone said "Sucking is the first steps to not sucking, and we're on our first bottle of not-sucking-milk, just hang in there brother!".
Sounds pretty accurate to me, but I don't think I'll ever get to the phase when my work is as good as my ambitions. And I hope I'll never reach that point as it would probably be the end of my career in games (at least env-art)
This rings so true with my own work, and I know most of you feel the same:
I am at that phase and it is very well said.
For months I thought it was just me who is stuck in that phase so I started making stuff anyways without deadlines.
The stuff that I'll make is always unfinished and not so presentable, but it is worth your while if you choose to stick around and find a way to pass through it.
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Agree with Pior, that kind of wow graphic design voice to text video trend is inflitrating everything, and its so aggravating - its definitely not 'cool' - Soon I will have a rocking chair, and I'll be on my porch with a shotgun.
I like the idea of piling on work, piling on deadlines, and making professional progress so that you reach that level of quality that you strive for in a quicker time, but the double edged sword to that is if you do too much too fast you burn yourself out. All things in moderation until closing the gap becomes simple.
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Would've fit much better as a nice article instead of a "feel good about myself" video :P
I only wonder if an artist can ever reach a point where he/she is satisfied with his/her own art.
i honestly think i`ll never be because every time i learn something new and get a bit better is see all the flaws i still have.
At any rate, I don't think this would have nearly the impact in just text form or a blog entry. I saw the original a number of months back and it was just text at first. I liked it but once I heard him saying the words, it was way more powerful.
Personally I love it and can't get enough of it ^ _ ^
Helps me remember information wayyy more too. Different strokes, yo!
I agree about the moving type.
Dado, This American Life plays on PRI (Public Radio International), which in the US gets rebroadcast by NPR (National Public Radio) on the weekends.
Because NPR does radio almost every story (except their blogs) has audio and can be que'ed up into their web player. So it's great to pick a few stories and have that playing in the background while I work. Which makes it easier to get cool stories and news while skipping over all of the political BS.
Also... NPR plays "Science Friday" which has a lot of cool and interesting content.
Also, Feng zhu's school of Design, their FZD youtube channel rocks but isn't updated nearly as much as I would like. I specifically love his thoughts on the visual library.
Personally, just like reading books can spark a bunch of great creative ideas, so can listening to awesome science and news related stories.
It's static, it's cold, it's has no emotion or visualized moment context images, like say the end letter when the word imagination/creative, etc are used. Talk about an inspiring message not being in an inspiring video.
Just because you learned how to use animated texts in AE, doesn't mean you should put it on everything, put in some effort plox.
Anyhow, as for the message, it's great, chance are you can change a few words around, and you can apply to any field.
As once someone said "Sucking is the first steps to not sucking, and we're on our first bottle of not-sucking-milk, just hang in there brother!".
I am at that phase and it is very well said.
For months I thought it was just me who is stuck in that phase so I started making stuff anyways without deadlines.
The stuff that I'll make is always unfinished and not so presentable, but it is worth your while if you choose to stick around and find a way to pass through it.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.