6 Motivation Killers - and how to keep going
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- Creating animation can be very tedious and exhausting. What drains your motivation? And what can you do to get back into the flow? If you know what is holding you back, it's easier to do something against it - which is why today we discuss 6 motivation killers.
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All of these tips are amazingly helpful, but you surprisingly hit home at the right time when you spoke about moving on from old passion projects that aren't worth it anymore. I have an old passion project that I can always go back on since the goal was to develop concept art to learn digital painting, and a new one which would 1) be used by a real company, 2) be more relevant to my tastes and 3) allow me to really work in animation. However, there was always that part of me that said I should sacrifice everything else for the old project and that I was being unfaithful to my commitments and too lazy to finish anything. But the reality is that I've grown since then, and it wasn't a waste because I did learn from it!
Long story aside, thanks for the awesome channel! It's so rare to find content that's so specific to the practical side of animation, and content like in-depth critiques and even videos like these which talk about mental struggles but very much directed to the animation world. Keep it up! (:
Awesome to hear that! It can be such a difficult step to put a passion project to rest. Good luck with your next project! Hopefully, you can finish it before you grow out of that one ;) (I sometimes start redoing shots that I did in the beginning because the quality of the later work is so much better - a fight against windmills).
Thank you very much for your kind words! It makes me super happy to hear that you like the channel (and btw on AnimatorIsland.com there is more in written form). Have a fantastic day! :)
thank you sooo much.. i m boy who never watch any things expect your videos and interviews of great animators, in your show. i dont know y? but i feel soo much happy when your new videos comes.. i am seeing your videos again and again.. your videos decrease my stress and tension.. but really thank you sooo much n also please make more and more videos.. becoz your videos gives me motivation to do best.. i spend oll the time watching your same videos again and again till your new videos dosn't realease,, soo please make new new videos and motivate us every time,, to do good in animation carrer..
thank you ferdinand, very nice video and so so true. the longer i do animation the more i feel that everyone is facing the same problems and it's not just me...i really thought that in the beginning. i often watch animation clips and reels of great animators frame by frame so that i can see the magic, that motivates me a lot, also watching videos like this one related to animation with helpful tips & tricks will do the trick. or to have nerdy animation talks with other animators. when i do repetitive stuff in 3d animation i like to listen to audiobooks.
thanks a lot for all the great videos and your website, very inspiring! :)
Thank you for your kind words and sharing your experiences! :)
I only make left to do list in order to allow myself to walk away from a project to... oh I dunno... sleep. Making the list ensures that I can pause my brain from the project and get back into it when I look at the to do list the next time. I never make a to do list before starting a project or else it would be a demotivator, as I would look at all there is to do and none of it is done. A left to do list at least has momentum.
Makes sense! It's different for me though... I feel a lot better if I can write all my tasks on a huge to do list and schedule them for the entire week so they are not in my head anymore before I start working. Otherwise I constantly feel like I should be doing something else. This way I always know "No, this taks I will do on day x". But it probably depends on what kind of work it is... -Ferdinand
thanks a lot for all of your videos, trick, interviews, look all of this is very useful for keep motivation intact or motivate oneself.
one other thing for me with can help to keep motivation is learning, when you learn a trick, a method, a other principe or whatever else.
This motivate me a lot to apply this thing on my current shot or juste make a break and test it on drawing or 2d animation
Thank you very much! Yes, you are absolutely right. Just having learned something and trying to apply it for the first time can be a very motivational challenge. Great tip!
found this video, realistic - it takes small steps !!! The Original Idea needs to be broken down into bite-sized tasks... went as far as taking a six panel sceneplanning from Paper to Digital Software using a .gif file... but expected to do more hours than neccessary.
Super helpful! Thanks!! :)
Excellent video! Bravo!... Though I'm a musician as you say in the beginning this applies to all artists and maybe to most professionals or all professions!.... So, again... BRAVO! ....
I'm happy to hear that this video was useful to you :D Thank you very much that you took the time to write a comment!
Love your channel!!!! thank you very much!!
Thank you :D
I struggle a lot with keeping the proportions the same size and stuff, i tried drawing my key frames and then draw the inbetweens, but that doesnt feel as enjoyable as just drawing every frame at once
I really really want to start animating again, i took a break for too long and now its so hard to get back into it
I often have the modelsheet as a transparent layer above my animation. So I can switch it on and check the proportions whenever I want to. It breaks the flow a little bit but not as much as pose to pose.
Just start with something simple, it's never too late. :D
"invented bullet system"? I was using something like this since I was 13 and didn't even knew about Internet back then.
what is killing my motivation right now is that i cant find some good reference to practice body mechanics im looking for parkour climb, descend but nothing satisfies me
If you really can't find anything and you really want to animate this you could try finding a parkour group near you. Maybe they let you film reference. To my surprise I recently discovered that even my small uncool city has a group. -Ferdinand
AnimatorIslandTV Thanks a lot!
i was working a project in autodesk maya... it got corrupted...i had nk back ups... i cant retrieve it... i cant bring myself to try and redo it. i think more than laziness is the sadness that it may not be as good as my orginal file
***** ima do that now.. when i finally get the motivation back
It's devastating I know it happened to me more than once, to lose something you are so proud of making. Just keep the idea in the back of your head "if it crashed now would you mind?" if it's a yes to that at any time then save a copy.
+Dragon Skunk yee ur right..
I feel with you. It's terrible when that happens! However, often times things can be a lot better the second time you do them, because you can anticipate problems that you had and approach things in a more organized fashion. See the first time as a rehearsal and now this one is the real performance. It's still super frustrating, but you can do it! :) Hm, I should really make a video about making backups at some point. -Ferdinand
AnimatorIslandTV Me, when it happens I try to do it again immediately while the ideas are still fresh in my head pending I'm not exhausted.
but what if you only animate for fun? Then doing something that ISNT fun wouldn't make sense right??
+Scribble Cloud Interesting point. Hmm, well, people do sport for fun, but they will have some days where they need a lot of discipline to stick to the work out plan. I think as soon as there is a goal involved, you need discipline to follow through - and that makes it feel less fun at times. If you want it to be fun only then you have to take all the pressure out of having to finish it or working x hours per day. I think I did that as a teen. But now every hour comes at a premium, so I make sure that even my fun projects will hopefully bring me forward in one way or another.
A DVD extra with nothing but complaining would be hilarious.
I worked for weeks on this animation and they didn't even use it! It's not even on the extras those c... BEEP! I know I gotta prove myself but why did they only make me animate grass blowing in the wind! I go home at night I can't even see the color green. This was the worst movie I ever seen it's directed by Allen Smithee but my they kept my name in the credits! I hate this studio! I found a small family of mice living in the coffee maker. Etc.
Sounds like it was a terrible project and work place. Hope you found something better now!
There is a documentary film called "The Sweatbox" about the making of Disney's "Emperor's New Groove". It was a completely different movie in the beginning and it's very interesting how it went from crisis to crisis while everybody is still trying to say positive things into the camera. Disney forbid distribution of the original version of the documentary, but you can still find it on the internet... -Ferdinand
AnimatorIslandTV NO! I was imagining scenarios, making up what a negative DVD extras would sound like.
Yeah hehe I know... I was just randomly remembering that documentary and wanted to mention it.