Failure is a huge part of life, part of work, part of art. It can be a crippling discouragement if we let it. It can also be a ladder to the highest success. Understanding failure and learning from it is a crucial discipline for artists.
The CG Cookie team is no stranger to failing. Each of us can point to key failures in our journeys that have shaped us into the artists and people we are today. In this stream Jonathan Lampel, Wayne Dixon, and Kent Trammell share about their biggest failures and what they learned from them.
Wayne put a super sad face when he said his computer died
Sometimes I take too much time doing an animation like even after planning I do lots of changes but even then I don't get the desired result. I feel like I didn't learn the basic things. It kind of depresses me. Is that a failure?
I think that fear of success is linked to higher expectations from yourself. If you succeed, more will be demanded of you. :-) nice problem to have.
And you can always move to Mexico
all three of you have a positive teaching style...
I am a fan of Wayne too :D
Yeah, Wayne encourages to look back at previous exercises or just to take a break from something and then come back to it. And thanks to that I can see things I couldn't see earlier.
You guys ever feel that instead of feeling you finished your art work, you post it online because you just give up on it?
Wayne Dixon , u rock man ! i found myself a new hero !
You know, physical labor instead of working with your mind