Heh there is a people-pleaser in me sometimes 🙂 I’m afraid I’m going to have to learn to say no though. Especially as more people register (66 right now!) it will be increasingly detrimental for everyone to be a cook in the kitchen. As you say, this is why we have the artwork to be our guiding light.
In a way it serves as a “client” and we’re the studio trying to achieve the client’s design. Achieving someone else’s vision is a crucial skill to learn for anyone aspiring to the professional side of computer graphics. I think this will help to be an objective standard that we all will strive to uphold.
Once we get into bigger projects like animated micro shorts it’ll be trickier. We’ll need to appoint leadership to make decisions about narrative and style. That will be an interesting thing to figure out…
That said I think there will be plenty of opportunity to “goof around” creatively. Like with the artist’s logos on the DOG. I’ve no doubt we’ll find stuff like that with this environment 👌
