Square One: Artist health, Dr. Strange, and photomicrography
Quote
“The scarcity in our world is in initiative, not the resources to produce.” — Kyle Eschenroeder
It’s okay to be healthy
At the Blender Conference, I noticed a common theme in my conversations. Most people were proud to push themselves too hard. It felt like there was an unspoken expectation to ignore exercise, cooking, family, and hobbies, to put all your energy in 3D.
Surely people were exaggerating to impress, but… it shouldn't be impressive.
It's okay to be healthy. It's okay not to ruin your life to become the world's best sculptor. This is what I kept saying at the conference.
And it seemed like people needed to hear it.
Everyone in the community is telling each other how hard they work, how much it takes to be great, how hard-won a high-level job is.
A nurse asked people on their deathbeds what their biggest regrets were. The two most common answers were:
I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
Inspiration
Nikon Small World Competition is a worldwide award for the best microscopic photography of the year. This is an underused aesthetic in 3D. There’s so much great stuff here.
Check out the winners: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/photomicrography-competition
Pro tutorial
If you haven’t seen it, you have to watch Digipiction’s Dr. Strange portal tutorial. It’s not really about making that specific effect, but about a mindset that great 3D artists have in everything they do.
A thing I've learned
Have things in motion, even for still images.
This has been on my checklist of renders forever, and it keeps paying dividends.
Back when I studied photography, my teacher would emphasize two aspects of reality that photos remove: depth and motion. He was adamant that we should strive to add them back in.
You probably already do that with depth, (leading lines, fog, layers,) but how can we do it with motion?
One solution is to turn on motion blur and move something for a frame. But I’ve found that it’s equally effective to add things that we know move. If you have frozen raindrops in the frame, we know those are falling. Cars on the road? We know they’re driving. People walk, smoke rises.
This implies a time before and after the photo was taken, which helps make it real.
Try it out and tell me what you think!
I’ll be back next week.
There are 2 categories of people those who brag that it wasn't hard and they didn't work that hard to get what they want , and those that brag that they neglected their health and relationships to get where they are , i think it due to the media that we consume especially movies since this 2tropes are the most popular ( genius who stride through their life easily) and ( hard worker victim who sacrificed so much he can't go back).
But in the end we are all the same , sometimes we gotta work hard and sometimes we gotta take it easy never the extreme
I suffer from overworking myself quite often, the rest is important I know, it's just I don't have much time left until the end of college, I really want to find some work, at least start, but nothing seems to work.