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I fell into a vat of hydrofluoric acid and got super powers instead of dissolving.
I know every art person goes through this, but it's nice to hear someone say it every once in a while.
Sometimes I feel like it's a private hell when you guys are pumping out awesome and I'm shifting turds.
I'm obviously too lazy to read the last few pages.
Steam handle: Buckwolfe
Jesus, that's nuts. I'm pretty good with pain, but I'm incredibly bad at deliberately inflicting it, so it's fairly safe to say I would've died.
EDIT: Oh hey Buck.
That chemist gets 100+ man points.
i tried oil painting for the first time
i am terrible at it
like worse than terrible
if you were to glance upon them, you would be forced to assume that i have never even heard of art let alone been doing it professionally for 2 years.
Awesome as you are, Beavo, you can't expect to be competent a new medium right off the bat.
Besides, where would the fun be if it didn't require a lot of hard effort? Keep at it, and see whether you like it or not.
Steam handle: Buckwolfe
Anyway, just some advice to people here, if you get approached by mod teams, really look into whether they are organised. You dont want to be doing work for a couple of guys that dont even know themselves what they are doing. Plus hey'd probably just take your ideas without giving you credit, becuase judging from their story outlines, they have no creativity whatsoever. My tutor at uni gave me some contacts to some TafeSA students who are working on game mods for some game/anime convention this year. They sound much more organised.
That sounds like commie talk to me. You should expect to be awesome at everything you do, and then be gutted when you discover that you are not. Then get into pills and booze because that is easier than everything else, and then piss away your last breath in a gutter, lying in a pile of your own vomit.
God, do I have to explain everything to you guys?
I would never get involved in a mod team, ever.
99% of the mods that get started never finish, they all have this furious blast of energy at the start and then it slowly dwindles away to nothingness.
Steam handle: Buckwolfe
The first thing I thought of was something sex related....I'm glad to see that I wasn't wrong.
Steam handle: Buckwolfe
amirite?
Oh, shit! He's right!
Steam handle: Buckwolfe
Right on cue, Forbe.
Topics buttsex, which makes me really wonder whether you knew that when you posted.
awwwww yeah boiiie
To be fair, yeah, a lot of 'let's make a game with no money yaaay!" teams as a whole don't really have their shit together, but I know I probably wouldn't have gotten an art job for a very, very long time if I hadn't made connections working on failed freebie game projects. The few people that do have their shit together will remember you down the line if you demonstrate that you have your shit together.
Of course, it's probably better to put your efforts towards showing off such things to people with actual jobs instead of 'dude with potential maybe future job', but anecdotally I'd say the few months I spent on freebie projects were well worth the effort in the long run. Would recommend to high school/college level people with free time, if you can find a team where at least 1 or 2 other people are not totally worthless/lazy.
yeah, i got an email suggesting that i get skype so that the entire team can have a 'conference call' but i dont see the point, since they havnt even done pre-planning of story or gameplay. If they can get something together, i'll probably do it just for the practice of being told what to do, with deadlines. But sinc ethey dont know what they want, that propbably wont work
Oh god, I don't think I could stand it. I would have to periodically fart into the reciever every 5-10 minutes just to get through it.
Then I drive for 8 hours, then another 6
The I'm hooooooooome!
But augh cripes in the meantime
P.S. somebody please purchase me a hamburger
True, it's unpaid. But still. Woo.
I can't decide whether to shake your hand or punch you in the face. Either way, please consider it a compliment.
Because video game jobs don't involve a bunch of nerds telling you what to do, so who needs to know how to work with those types?
HA! HA! HA!
For purely improving your 'skills of an artist', yeah, you might be better off doing your own thing (if you have a strong work ethic) or taking more classes, but I'd put the real value of it on the social aspects of working on a group production- making deadlines, getting along with/contributing positively to the group, going through the process of revising ideas based on production needs, etc. more than the actual art pieces you'll end up with at the end of the day. (Though it wouldn't hurt if that was good too).
If I've managed to get work, I'd put it much more up to having demonstrated I'm pretty good at those things, more than my actual portfolio (which was never exactly earth-shakingly amazing by any stretch). There's a lot of guys that just sit in their cubes and knock off the items on their tasklist and never invest anything personally in the project, and while they may be competent at what they do, they'll never be the sort of person that most people actively want to work with.
Plus, if you're doing something for free, you'd better be working because you like the project and want it to be good, because going 'hired gun' on a free project makes no sense whatsoever.
I've got a show coming up in June so I'll be working my sweet little ass off over the coming weekends, new material to come!
HOWEVER: I want to do a follow up to my last solo show later in the year and I cannot find ANY spaces in the city. They're either ludicrously expensive, booked out until next year, require stupid curatorial panel assessments, or would need me to pay for public liability insurance!
There's one place I would like to put a show on but they're not responding to any of my emails. Urgh.
i expected to be the most awesome
i will of course keep at it
i'm doing my degree starting next year in fine arts with an interdisciplinary major in both drawing and painting
i'm looking forward to spending the time learning
though i really don't think i'll ever be great at oil painting. My style is more suited to things like water color, inks and gouache.
[strike]Be in a room with hundreds of flying bouncy balls[/strike]
*sigh*
Hey everyone! Its FRIDAY!!!!!!!8-)
LOL. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
As for the "thing", it caused several hours of lost productivity, the kind of shit people get stern verbal warnings for, and he was trying to saddle me with the blame. I straightened him out though, so order has been restored.
On a lighter note... Does anyone here have a PS3? I've got LBP and Resistance 2.... any game recommendations?