Ask Adam Savage: "Was ILM Your Dream Job or a Stepping Stone?"
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- What's one ILM project Adam didn't work on but wish he had? Was ILM Adam's dream job? Were there makers that influenced Adam's design approaches? And would 3D printing have been a game changer? In this excerpt from our Dec. 22 live stream, Adam answers questions from Tested Patrons Brandon Greene, Paxton Sparks, Christopher Amrich and Tommy Stevens, whom we thank for their support! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, like asking Adam a question:
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Huh, I like how he describes the change to his dream job by saying "tomorrow I get to..."
Yeah, I'm an engineer and I don't think I've ever had that experience, I was close once, but never quite there. I am, however, close to retirement, with an infinitely long list of things I want to do, so "tomorrow I get to" will be here soon.
@@ricklepick9148 I'm with you. Early in my career but still haven't hit that yet. Hope I do someday but I think it's kind of lucky to be able to find something like that.
While I want to be able to say this (and mean it with Adam's kid-like giddy) I feel like I need to just start saying it now (whether I mean it or not).
I'm thinking this might help change my perspective about my current, seemingly unappreciated job.
ie. "Tomorrow (or today) I get to work with some pretty amazing people" or "I get to practice this today."
@@brevs8387 It really will. Creating the feeling in what your doing, with even the small things you enjoy, can drastically change your perspective and mood. Its something many motivational teachers will teach as well. If it takes no effort to do, why wait for tomorrow? Tomorrow isn't guaranteed.
im also an engineer, and i have passed the same process that adam described, im very happy with my job and it was my dream job but now it is a stepping stone than im thinking i need to move on. we will see sometimes it is time to find something else to do.
HE ANSWERED MY QUESTION!!! That just made my 2021. Thats it. I'm good. Thank you for being a source of light in an otherwise dark world.
Normalize dream jobs being a stepping stone to things that you couldn't even conceive of before then! They don't necessarily need to be the be-all, end-all job you do forever.
i think for Adam the dream job is actually just being a creator/maker. he's happy as long as he gets to make things, all the studios and gigs were just stepping stones of being a maker. and in his case a world-famous one at this point.
i work in the video game industry as an artist and have for the last 11 years. working in games is my dream job, the individual gigs and contracts here and there were not necessarily stepping stones but a path that has kept me in this industry and enjoying it for over a decade. i've had a handful of different titles over time but as long as i'm in the gaming industry i'm happy.
For Heaven's Sake please do set up Zoom meetings with old colleagues and comrades of yours and interview them!!! that would be absolutely fascinating!
He did an interview about the making of the mandalorian with some colleagues if you haven't seen it!
@@nosslraK you're absolutely right! it was a fascinating episode😃
I feel exactly the same way about my career progression. In the 5th grade (1999ish) I wrote in a grammar class essay that I wanted to "design cars on a computer"..... Fast forward to college and I didn't really have a major chosen but I fit the aptitude test for engineering, aside from disliking math... I graduated and didn't have a job lined up so I applied to places and after a couple months a long-time friend and neighbor said there was an engineering opening where he worked... They design, fabricate, and install large conveyor systems for automobile plants. So there I was staring at concept and future vehicles trying to find ways to build them in the current car plants. After a few years I was even able to negotiate changes to the future car structure to make it more manufacturable....Literally "designing cars on a computer" in a very small way (compared to the actual vehicle design engineers)... But the auto industry is crazy, high stress, high workload, tight scheduling, tight budgeting. And I was spending at least one weekend a month on some jobsite, often times out of the country. I worked nearly every holiday and after 7 years I was getting tired of not the work... but everything else, I didn't like the city or apartment living and was ready to find 'home' and settle down... So I was able to line up a position at another friend's company in designing and project mgt in the aircraft, spacecraft, and public transportation industry.... for the last few weeks I've been working on a project with NASA and the USN....... it's been quite a ride, and hopefully I have another 30 years to go before retirement.
quite a ride :)
Thank you for answering my question! I missed that live stream😂
lucky bastard
I thought I saw these before. I'm not going crazy.
Using the word Inculcates, followed by the phrase " arrow in your quiver" and the word Inculcates is not the said arrow is a level of syntax that I find highly satisfying. Thank you for that, Adam.
Could we have some of your former ILM colleagues as guests on Still Untitled?
Great idea!
Sadly still untitled isn't being made anymore (at least for a period). They just updated the feed with an announcement.
Unfortunately, we've ended that podcast to focus on live streaming.
Adam. Your a big inspiration into what I do in my life. I grew up watching mythbusters, from the first episode to the last. I learned so much through out the years and to this day when there is something I need to do or trying to figure something out, I sit and watch some mythbusters and figure out what I need.
It would be a HUGE HIT if you could manage a CZcams channel of all your old ILM buddies and painters.
Most Creativity it limited by the methods of production.
I love when Adam gets going like this !!!!
Process agnostic is the exact expression I have been trying to think of for years.
I've said it before and I stand by it: "Adam, you are an exemplary human being". I only wish I'd enjoyed my career as much as you have, and obviously still do. Thanks, man. Dave J
All in The Family: Carol O'Conner as Archie Bunker. My mother was HORRIFIED that I would watch this with my grandfather in the 70's....yet it was genius for his commentary on the social fabric of America. Now, I am a seasoned international airline captain. One of the BEST pieces of advice I provide to new copilots comes from my mother: the Pilot in Command YOU become will be formed by the captains you fly with: absorb the good and learn what not to do from the bad. Be the best you can be. I am the captain I am having used that wisdom, for I will fly the aircraft EVERY TIME as if MY OWN family were in the back and I am going to protect them.
Mr. Savage: I am the maker I am in my off hours from having watched and absorbed your experience and wisdom. Thank you for sharing.
This puts all my years thinking of "I have to wake up tomorrow" in a new light... A much darker one.
I LOVE that you use “tomorrow I get to...!”
That’s legit one of my school’s main values “we get to do this.”
It’s awesome to see you so animated and warm and smiley
I also worked on the Terminator 3 ride for Universal Orlando. I worked for Scenic Technologies and later the IATSE local 1 in NYC. I also worked as an electrician for a few music shows including Metallica from 97-2000. Cool stuff!
ADAM!!! Please never stop this, I look forward to whatever project you're doing... and this post covid format is so much cooler!!!!
Would love to see you and a bunch of your friends from ilm just in a zoom chat talking about all your time there and maybe grab a few questions to ask
This makes me think of all the amazing people I have worked with and learned from over the years. So many people who are of amazing talent and skill. A big thanks to them! Thanks Adam! 👍
Would love to see you do models on a new Star Wars show or film. Phil Tippett’s handful of easter eggs bring so much meaning to the new stories. Knowing you got to leave your mark on the new era would be legendary for your fans.
Here, ladies and gentleman, we got a true and true maker!
Wish I had this drive and emotion doing what I do for a living.
I long to be able to talk about my job like this one day!
I love how Adam does his videos on his new desk.
To everyone who thinks that 3D-printing for Cosplay is "cheating" I can tell you that it's certainly not! You have no idea how much work actually goes into doing 3D-printing for cosplay: 3D-modelling, printing, assembly (because you really can't make very large prints in one go), surface treatment (oh god, the sanding!), painting etc. It's just a different process with its own pros and cons, just like any other making process.
A zoom meeting with your old ILM gang would be a fantastic video!
I wish I had my dream job. It's so hard to get a job growing cannabis here in Pennsylvania tho. I love all plants but nothing pays like cannabis. I survived for years with just a 4x4 area growing weed. And had more money back then and I work a good 40 hour a week job. It's amazing how much money you can make growing weed if you know what your doing and can grow good weed. Growing weed is easy, growing good weed consistently is hard.
#Productivity & #Satisfaction best wishes I've ever heard! Much love from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina ❤
HEY ADAM! Looking at the helmets in the background made me think of an interesting cosplay idea for you for the next CON that you are able to go to. Imagine, if you will, walking the floor as the robot from the 1980’s Gameboy TV ad.
Each time you mention the skills of your former co-workers, you describe them as masters of various art forms. I'm curious what they they would say from their perspective about the skills you mastered in your time at ILM.
Friends of mine worked at Rick Baker's Cinovation back in the day and it was a shop where many of the workers were actual employees with benefits. I believe Stan Winston's shop at the time was similar. It is a shame that the practical effects industry has been pushed to the point where everyone must be a gig worker. And that the number of jobs has shrunk.
Loving the shirt form the Center for Policing Equity.
When you have that Zoom, bring us along please. Fabulous idea.
C'mon! Adam! You KNOW that your dream job was at the 8th Street Playhouse in NYC.... (that, or your appearance in that Billy Joel video, recently revived in "The Boys"...). Luv Chris Johnson 💝)
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inculcate:
to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
You said it made you wanna get on a zoom with all of your old ILM model making friends. You should do that and record it. Kind of like how they did the Gallery for the Mandalorian. Sit down group discussion just talking about all the stuff. I learned a lot as a kid by breaking things, and not intentionally breaking things mind you. I learned just as much by listening to the discussions my dad had with his friends.
When I was a kid and wanted to know how all this stuff was made I would have killed for something like that. A real how it was made not an advertisement kind of thing.
VFX/SFX is amazing to me in how it collectively will just move forward and never stand still when it comes to advancements/technology
I always enjoy story time with Adam! :D
i love that expression of pure hippieness when you were thinking back ti ILM near the end of the vidio
"Agnostic" doesn't mean "having no preference" or "being undecided". If you want to extend the meaning of the word beyond religion, it would (more accurately) mean; having the opinion that something is by its nature unknowable or undefinable". From the Greek from a- "not" and gnōstos "to be known".
Hang on... workplaces where everyone shares the work load exist? I thought they were myths
myth busted!
@@notsatan5287 damn I was gunna say that
thank goodness the shooting style of the videos changed, they're actually watchable now. no shaky camera, out of focus fast zoom in and out.
Suggestion: get some model makers to show up in your show. I bet tons of people would enjoy that.
I would watch all of the Adam savage ilm reunion
I would like to watch a zoom call with your ILM buddies. That would be cool
You're one of my role models, Adam Savage.
Good job you never worked on the millennium falcon Adam, there would of been a dancing bear hidden in the cockpit.
adam please if you would get your ILM buddies on zoom and have a chat for youtube that would be amazing, im sure im not the only one that would love to hear the stories.
I would love to see an Adam's version of what would be the millennium falcon
wonderful wonderful
What a great guy, I still want to give him a hug =)
After he says his employment history has like 300 items on it and it hardcuts to him sitting there with a paper, I seriously thought he'd be reading off his employment history.
Fresh out of high school I worked at a prototyping ferm called pdthree. It was my dream job. In that place with its draw of resources literally anything could be made. I was the dreamer and machinist of the r&d department. When it went under a chunk of my soul left with it. The hand full of jobs I have had sence have all felt like a waste of my time. Knowing that job doesnt exsist any more I feel like a lobotomy and a factory job is the simplest way to finish my time here.
big fan of your content!
Well the step gave us more fun. :)
What do you consider your most valuable DIY ability. (i.e. welding, which I suck at)
Can't Walt for that zoom call to happen! 😝🙌❤😊😊😊😊😊
3D printers are merely tools. Tools don’t make a product that’s still the user. And if a tool is easier to use by which more people will use it and create beautiful or useful things than its a great tool. So there’s no need to scold 3D printing.
I'm one of those people that always feels a sense of ownership regarding our service and product. Unfortunately, I've never had an employer that appreciated that. That's why I switched to being self employed.
Frosty!
You shouldn't think of chasing a dream job. This puts way too much stress on students (added to what they already have), just simply try to enjoy whatever you're doing. Not enjoying it? If you're lucky, try and do something else. In the end, you do need to put food on the table. :)
If you haven't already, can you bring your former ILM colleagues onto the "This is Only a Test" podcast?
Thank you :)
Merry Christmas!
I guess...
Can you make a Boba Fett Black Series helmet weathering one day build ... That thing is cheap and pretty accurate and it would be awesome to see how you would pimp this even further...
Lucky bastard....you're the best.
I knew it was worth it not to sleep
What's that helmet in the background?
I am looking forward to seeing that being made.
Also... Tell the fanboys about how you built an aquarium out of a movie theatre soda tank. They need to know that you were an obsessive builder WAY before anyone was watching.... 😉
Oh man... I remember the four years I worked at my dream job. And now I don't do that job anymore. I work a very much less enjoyable job now. *sigh*
Stay frosty? Are you a Warzone fan or did you pick the saying up from friends in the service
What does his shirt represent?
It is from the Center for Policing Equity: teespring.com/stores/justice-nerds
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The lamentation for my inquiry is profound.
Nice
This AMA probably thumped closed to home considering the CoVid Times
Could you please explain the #justicenerd I’ve seen it in a few videos before I think
Sorry guys but what is ilm?
Whips the papers... and drops what all of our human work needs.... my stepping stone could be anything.... I’d love to make engines that go FAST.....
I’ve wasted much of my life, I gotta do the crappy leg work on wrenching on engines and learn welding.
Edit: laser cutting..... mini Light Saber...
* _STATIC_ *
**A la Airforce pilot**
"Err, uhh. You stay frosty to, MythMan. Rodger."
I couldn't help it xD Man you better stay healthy so I get a chance to shake your hand one day, Adam! Or... Touch your elbow with mine? ...I guess? XD Whatever is normal by then, hah.
seems like if he curses in a video the upper limit is twice, something i've noticed
7 minutes wow
Hello
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What does he mean by “Gatekeeping in Cosplay”??
Gatekeeping is generally when people try to disqualify or invalidate someone's experience because it's different from the establishment. Saying things like "You're not a real _________, because you don't _________."
Is anyone else having problems concentrating on Adam? I keep finding myself staring with longing at that Mandalorian helmet.
Seems the subject matter never, ever, changes.
How many episodes will Adam go without mentioning ILM? Nope...
In a series of questions about ILM? I hope not many
@@Warriorbox "Episodes"
@@dariandareyawasmer6074 a Series of Episodes.... the last lot was about Mythbusters... this series of episodes is about ILM
@@Warriorbox It's never mattered. We get it, he's proud of his gig. So?
Why do i get subs on all tested videos? I hate it..
Can we get an F in the chat for anyone who doesn't know what ILM is
Ok don't read comments and possibly has been answered. Are you still working in film?
People are sure obsessed with ILM
What's ILM?
@@TylerWitucki Industrial Light and Magic. It's a film production/special effects company purpose-created for the Star Wars films by George Lucas. It is now pretty much _the_ top special effects company in the world with literally hundreds of credits to its name, especially in the genre of sci-fi. If there's a sci-fi film made since 1980ish, that had significant special effects in it, it's probably ILM.
Some people make all the luck, the rest of us are asking "how do you make your own luck"? Cryptic answers will be meat with blank stairs, non-cryptic answers will be appreciated.
Finally found something that I disagree with Adam on. 3D printing in cosplay. It's not only about the end result. Appreciation must be given to the amount of work, time, love, and effort that went into a costume. If there are two cosplayers wearing identical suits (or are using the same prop), one is hand crafted from the ground up while the other pressed a button on a printer, they are not the same and never should be. These are the things that turn so many people away from the hobby, because they can put insane amounts of work into something and be completely ignored by something machine made or by someone who is wearing a bikini and calling it a cosplay.
i'm not that close to the cosplay scene, but my impression when i've interacted with it is that there's a sort of soft upper limit on how things look imposed by the easy material choices available. and that applies to 3d printing too. my impression is that 3d printing could create a reason for people to push beyond that soft limit. like, a 3d print will always be a little chunky, a little fragile, a little heavy, a little hard to paint, you won't get glass transparency out of it or a true fabric. and those places may be able to form an opportunity for others to differentiate themselves. 3d printing is well suited to recreating a character that's never been depicted realistically enough to demand real materials. but that's something i've always found disappointing, sort of a garbage in garbage out thing. i made chainmail for a while, and even the prop plastic mail that weta made for lord of the rings won't look the same up close, no matter the paintjob. nobody's figured out how to get a machine to make real armor-grade chainmail hauberks, and so seeing one is a clear indication that someone put hundreds or thousands of hours into something. that was a little stream of consciousness, does that make sense?
somebodies butthurt they spent hours and the end result was garbage.
I don't appreciate how much time or effort they spent, the end result is garbage and fake. 3D printing is putting real effort engineering, u engineer cardboard and cotton.
@@Mr-pm3jp you're watching adam savage, haven't you seen what he says about cardboard and fabric?
@@Mr-pm3jp *somebody's butthurt that everything they do they accomplished with a press of a button and it gets no respect vs someone who is actually creative
I can’t stand the term “maker” it just reminds me of that term jack of all trades master of none
You forgot the rest of the quote. "......but oftentimes better than a master of one."
I asked someone if BLM was their dream job or stepping stone, and I got punched in the face
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I'm one of those people that always feels a sense of ownership regarding our service and product. Unfortunately, I've never had an employer that appreciated that. That's why I switched to being self employed.