Reply To: Backhoe Contribution – adrian2301 – Chassis/Stabilizer/Fenders and the Engine. And the hydraulics for the swing frame.

[Omar Domenech]

Yeah I don’t know how Kent manages the livestreams, as if tutorials aren’t hard enough. I would just freeze and words wouldn’t come out of my mouth if I had a camera pointed at me and there is supposed to be people there that I don’t see.

You know what I think is also important in work that is for real… when we are doing the DOG or working on our own stuff, we do it because we feel like it and we do it at our own rhythm and pace. But when is client work, there is this frustrating lack of authority or control, it’s not your timing or pacing, you develop this insecurity because they always say “oh is a ten second animation” or “oh is just one simple model” only to have that initial request turn on its head and the job suddenly becomes a 3 minutes animation and there’s dozens of models and “oh you remember we said it was due in one month? yeah need it finished in 3 days now.”

So a capacity to adapt is super important and also handling frustrations, and a lot of times your modeling ability takes the passenger seat and the job depends not on how good, but on how fast can you model good enough (Like Kent always says). In other words you can model something amazing, but if you can only do it at your own pacing and it takes you 2 months, then maybe that isn’t enough for the real world, crazy under stress, much faster circumstances and lack of control, money driven client work. I really hate that by the way, every time freelance work comes by me I always have to sigh, take a deep breath and try not to listen to the excuses my brain comes up with, because I never want to take it. But I always do and after an intense period of hating what I’m going through, in the end most of the time it’s worth it.

Disclaimer though, that is probably my perception on the whole thing, perhaps lots of people don’t have that experience and they love it. I wouldn’t know because I don’t know anyone in real life that does 3D or freelance.