Reply To: September 17th, 8pm CDT, 2019 – Blender Animation Critique

[Omar Domenech]

@phoenix4690 Well it has always felt to me as if going surfing and not knowing how to swim. You can surf but it would be pretty great if you could defend yourself if something goes wrong. Maybe is not a fair comparison, I don’t know. It’s like being passionate about cars, but you don’t know what a transmission is or how to change a tire. Somehow I feel like I’m not legit. I bet it’s like a physiological thing though and it’s not that bad.

You know what also happens sometimes, you see a cool concept art of say a character on the internet and you go like aahh that would make a cool render. So you model, texture, light, etc it, you do the entire 3d pipeline and you show your final render to people and they go like wow dude, that looks sick, did you do that? and you go like yeah I made it…. then people see the concept art from where you took off and people say, ah so you didn’t actually do it? and you go like yeah I made it, that’s the concept art, and they go like, yeah so the dude that drew that picture was the one who came up with it, and you’re like yes they did the concept art but I made the whole other part of the job and they’re like, so who’s is it then? And you’re locked into this weird paradox of what actually count as who made it. Is it the concept artist who thought it up? or is it the 3D artist who brought it up into a tangible form? For me is a synergy of both, but I find people always go to the main source as to where to plant the flag of ownership. It always makes you feel cheap, like you didn’t really do it yourself.