Danioover9000

@flowboy 1. For me, breaking into a field would be to have so much value, mastery and skill that I would simply stand out, on just those skills alone...ideally. 2. Might be, but being an art director is into the future, 20 plus years. Right out, working as a team leader is difficult for me. Maybe, for example, I want to build an epic visual novel that's take me, if solo, 10 years to complete, or in a team, 5-8 years as I want iit to be extremely good and worth the purchase in stream, and I'm gonna be mostly in charge for the aesthetics, the character and environment art and the entire story, but if I still suck at coding other aspects like music, mini games, then I can delegate when necessary. That's what I sort of mean. 3. big obstacles for me, are the finance and contacts and networking, among others.

@flowboy Nice, your friend sounds like he's doing well for himself, or herself. I'm not sure that I'd call what I did to myself as a constructed imaginary boundary, but I do have a timeline of myself, and I could see events going forward and backwards from this point, like a complex ruler that truncates in the past and in the future. So, this specific timeline, I see myself as a millionaire artist with lots of energy, confidence and proactivity, that is being an art director, or some other role in a studio making art. I was viewing each role in first person for a while, detailing those experiences, and I then switch to 3rd person viewing, increasing the distance and time from that ideal goal, to create motivations to bridge that gap from now to there. I don't see myself being an art director within 1-5 years, without behaving in manipulative and shady ways, but I see that if I kept on improving my skills, I would be closer to that in like 10-15 years later. I'm an introvert, and leading people isn't my skillset, nor am I am interested in commanding around people. The image and other techniques generate motivation for me to keep on practicing art, ideally, I would be solo or freelance earning 6-7 figures.

Found this, and it's a gold mine for musicians and song writers out there:

Short and simple video about bias: Not as complex or lengthy as Leo's, and different in presentation style, but thought provoking, nonetheless. Thoughts? Wrong subforum?

@Space Yes, I am still continuously looking for advice. If I absolutely have to pick one above all, then it might be likely comic art. because honestly in my free time I draw comic like characters and environments and have more visual experience and memories with that style, also thanks to playing video games I can also draw like that. It would be nice to get into concept art as well, because I can gesture draw quick character and environments. When you say brief projects, you mean something like short stories, or small projects?

@Jacobsrw Nice! Sounds like you would be going into graphic novels, or visual novels if you combine the literature philosophy with realistic to surrealistic images. In your case, is it more about writing or the image making?

@Epikur Thanks, Epikur. You're really epic.

@Leo Gura Yes, many people can still be minor geniuses in their one or few fileds that they have had years to decades of being involved in.

Why is Tik Tok created in the first place?

I'm more interested as to why he is named Dr. Fauci. Was he a free mason? Made a Faustian pact in his mother's basement? Dejected stressed out face, because he screwed up first base when unbuttoning GF's blouse? Who else knew, Mickey Mouse, or Winnie the Pooh too? How could he get away with putting people through mental hula hoops? Is he a foul degenerate? Was it when he bedded with Mau's after party? So many questions, so little answers.

@The Mystical Man Why is it called Lolita?

Very interesting video, wonder what @Leo Gura and others would think of the Corona as a lab leak. If this is true, Fauci is very likely to get away with this event. God works in mysterious ways, and karma will come for Fauci, for this specific event or some unrelated sin.

Another one is animation, Mangaka and/or visual novels. Visual novels sound promising to me, but still on the fence about being one. I'll be looking into it and see if I can make a game like that in private and get a feel for it before going that direction.

@flowboy Here's sort of my mission statement, plus actions I want: Generalized purpose: Understanding life and the world of shapes and colors, to become a creator, and contribute to the world through recreations of different aspects of it with my spin on it. Specialized purpose: To become a graphic designer, and design both environment and characters, from concept art to full illustrations. Ideally to be an art director later, if not then to be a cover artist, pencil sketch, inker, story board maker, writer, or colorist or editor. Domain of mastery: drawing manga to anime type of subjects, games as well. Ideal medium: pencils or pens. ten-year mastery plan: Top ten values: competency, understanding, consciousness, creativity, independence, uniqueness, excellence, health, beauty, enlightenment. top 5 feelings: serenity, happiness, excitement, confidence, creativity. top 5-character strengths: appreciation of beauty and excellence, curiosity, love, gratitude, hope, kindness. Zone of genius: Video gaming, chess, visualization, drawing, story making.

@Someone here I don't recall, but I remember some video on atomic habits, and the author laid out three levels of the habits that make success, which are: 1. outcome driven. 2. Process driven. 3. Identity of the self, enmeshes with said targeted activity. For example, a person wants to become a writer, starts off goal oriented, does all the self-help techniques, from visualization/positive affirmations and other hypnosis types of techniques, to make the outcome very clear, specific, big, and attractive to generate motivation of some level. At some point in journey, it becomes more process oriented, the writer is more interested in smaller techniques that chain up, combinations of sets of techniques and aspects come together. Finally, after years of doing/taking action, self-image becomes more identified with ideal role, almost second nature. Is this what you were referring to, at a deep level?

@flowboy That sounds nice. I take it that this person funneled most of his/her free time and energy into creating images? Does he do character or environment design? And basically, at some point became an art director?

This is a good video, an illustration of one of the league of legends characters, total time is roughly 9 hours, either the artist put extra effort into shortening that or not. It's sped up, but shows what drawing using digital software looks like:

@LSD-Rumi Yes, I agree that most geniuses are more likely born and not made, but I think that geniuses are both born, and self-made and made by environmental and cultural pressures. There's no such thing as one key factor, there's a lot of factors including your stage of development, cognitive and moral development, personality types, states of beings and becoming, life experiences with people and the world, and other lines of development in different areas of life, and how those said geniuses have hyper holistic to hyper reduction like thinking, from big picture to small picture thinking and the ability to interconnect different parts together. On top of that is multiple types of skills natured and developed, and how skills combine and interplay, creates higher value individuals in a society.

@Fleetinglife Life, I love you, but that was aimed mostly at the engineer robot guy. It wasn't a jab at you. Technically, that last of suggesting alternative, if it's done in good jest and humor, the clown would likely not get killed for it, but that's an aside. While the Royal family is not as powerful as it is hundreds of years ago, I agree there's still some power left, but it's at this point mostly cultural and symbolic more so than economical. Also, technically, the Queen's funeral could have been held privately, and technically, if the Royal family was much more powerful, the majority of the British population would not be able to pressure them to make it public. However, when Diana died, even though the Royal family wanted a private funeral, and didn't want anything to do with her, the public response put so much pressure on the Royal family that they had to capitulate slightly and hold a public funeral. My opinion, I love it that my country still has a monarchy show casing the bling of tradition attire of Royalty, that the majority of mainstream, modern cultures don't have or are tucked away in some museum or some film, except Japan, with its ancient traditional icons and crazy modern societies. You don't have medieval showcases in the USA, or in Europe, maybe in Eastern cultures, but it's a cultural flavor that persists and is livelier than you all could be, with your get up film props.

@Tahuti I don't like how you are flattening out and generalizing Tik Tok's hyper toxic business practices and parasitic mind behaviors towards all forms of social media, and all forms of media. That's like taking a specific murder case and attempting to flatten and defend the murderer by saying "Well, all humans kill and murder anyways. Just read human history for more information on selfish humans killing each other.". Yes, there's attention engineering, which is a facet of society, business and marketing, but making appeals to that as justification for Tic Toc's destruction of the youth is sloppy and irresponsible thinking.

@Tahuti Tik Tok still continues showing minors showing off their nudes, while getting encouraged by fucking chat to continue being sexual while Tik Tok's algorithm continues to keep showing that type of content to those types of users, and the A.I is designed to continue doing so with little moral check and balance, just as much as Tik Tok is continuing to show you even more booty shaking vids. I'm complaining because I am still a decent human being seeing how fucked up Tik Tok is and how damaging it is to those young minds, sorry if you are lower in cognitive and moral development than I am, hold different values than I, and have different life experiences than I have using social media platforms, and sorry if I threatened your attachments to Tik Tok.

A story of how far a dictator would go, to realize his hobby of making films, at almost any cost: Thoughts?

@Leo Gura Would this also imply that other self-help gurus and life coaches as well? And other spiritual teachers with YouTube accounts? I won't deny the possibility, but I think having a gate keeper system that adheres to guidelines very strictly, means that it's more likely to ban content that breaks guidelines, like pornographic or very graphic videos, videos that incite violence, hate speech, cyber bullying, maybe reactionary content makers that steal and issue copywrite strikes to silence critics and reviews and so on. I think it banning or temp banning YouTube channels about spirituality and self-help is on a lower priority list. Maybe a gate keeping system similar to Actualized.org, that also issues warning points, but in YouTube's case, the warning points lowers the income earned per view, so 1 point is like a 1% reduction in overall salary earned at the end of a 24 hour cycle, I think that's gonna be a better system.

@The Mystical Man I understand where you're coming from. The strongest case I could think of, against the use of A.I generated art, is both the following: Copywrite issues and change in employer-employee dynamics. 1. If you are an artist, and spent many years training in the art fundamentals, even gone to an art school or an atelier, gone through the business and marketing side of illustrators or concept artists for either environments or character design, even trained a few years using digital drawing software, then find out that on average now most employers, art directors, want the artists that use A.I generated platforms versus an artist with many years of experience, then I see that there can be a problem in getting hired on those skills that are progressively being seen as more outdated compared to A.I generated art. I can see those job opportunities narrowing as time passes. It's a scary feeling, to have your LP dwindling before you. 2. Because of increasing demand and popularity of A.I generated art, and exposure, those bosses that only know of A.I generated art, and have little to no knowledge of traditional, orthodox, and digital means of making art, would be more impatient and don't appreciate the art making processes of an illustrator or comic book artist/writer. Worse, is because this is a new budding field, there's very lax restrictions around copy writing of images generated. For example, you manage to use A.I generated images, and you don't like about half of the image, so you go in and spend 4 hours of touching it up, and adjusting proportions, perspectives, shading, grey tones and color values if color is used, get almost the composition right. Great, then when you think you can sell that image, you can't, because the group that allowed those images to be sold, changed their copywrite policies. I can see how frustrating it can be.

@Leo Gura To clarify, I don't think I written my post about YouTube views being different between a content creator and YouTube react like that before, but thank you? I think I was talking about how YouTube Reactionaries are taking up more digital space in the market compared to original content creators they are reacting to and trying to make a point that there are more people out there that will copy in some way versus the few that did most of the work. The mindset of an average person, who relies on A.I generated images only, without doing any kind of drawing later, would be more comparable to a YouTube Reactionary, make drama with least resistance. I guess the point was, is to not fully over rely on A.I generated art and doing so makes you more or less lazy minded, on average, not counting the exceptions to the rule.