I happened across the 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Award Winners page today, and enjoyed watching some quite amazing works of animation and other design arts by students and folks not older than myself. Being in my position and seeing things like that makes you think. There are a multitude of people out in there in the big wide world who are orders of magnitude more dedicated, focused, and hardworking than yourself, and who for those or other reasons are able to create work that is seemingly incomprehensibly better than anything you yourself are capable of creating. I suppose that is a good starting point, and certainly better than living in a state of ignorant denial about how great your work is.
Not everyone can be a genius, because then no one would.
Regarding my previous post, which is by far the most “rant-ish” and emotionally charged post on this blog so far, it turns out that brutalizing Maya into doing your bidding is a challenging and time-intensive occupation. Sortof like this graph:
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