Has anyone ever just lost the will?

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Has anyone ever just lost the will?

Postby Honorable Goat » Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:54 am

Hey people

I know I'm not the most active person on this site/forums, I do regularly visit and read though. I think I've only actually submitted one AMV to the site so far, this is side tracking anyway...

I sat down the other day to make an AMV to a much beloved song that I knew _exactly_ how I wanted everything to turn out in my head, I loaded up the ol' program and just sat there.... I couldn't be bothered, it all just seemed to too much work... don't get me wrong I still enjoy the whole AMV thing and would like to keep creating them but this just irked me a little bit :/

Has anyone ever just sat down and did not feel like continuing with what they were doing or just got bored of it? What helped you get over it? Yes I realise this could be the wrong section, but hey, I couldn't find anywhere else that kind've fitted the bill.
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Re: Has anyone ever just lost the will?

Postby doughboy » Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:59 am

Honorable Goat wrote:What helped you get over it?


Watch a whole boatload of videos you enjoy, then watch a bunch that you don't. I tend to get motivated when I see a whole bunch of lame videos in a row. :P
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Postby Pwolf » Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:20 am

thats been happening to me a lot this past year :|


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Postby dokool » Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:02 am

Pwolf wrote:thats been happening to me a lot this past year :|
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Postby bum » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:23 am

I make sure that my concepts are dificult to edit to my standards so the stress gets to me before the boredom does.

Stress is fun.
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Postby AquaSky » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:36 am

Loss of interest happened to me twice, when the videos just weren't coming together well enough to motivate me to keep working on them. Burn-out, however, happens more often. If I've been editing nonstop for a few months (especially right after con season), I usually have to step back and take a breather. Don't want to neglect the other hobbies, namely gaming. I've always got a little stack of games waiting for me at the end of con season.
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Postby Infinity Squared » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:45 am

There's been far too many a night when I just sat there blankly staring at the screen and felt quite unmotivated mainly when I end up with only adding 1 second more of editing for a week or more...

But there is this one time when I completely gave up on a project. I really wanted to make a Haibane Renmei video at one time but no music just seemed good enough. So I ended up with 3 songs and I thought to myself that the only way to get things started was to start 3 Haibane Renmei vids.... that was a mistake and a half... so in the end, today, I have not made one single Haibane Renmei video...

I'm actually in a slump at the moment... I have about 4 or 5 video projects I want to do but I feel no compulsion to get started... I have been watching buttloads of anime though... I guess I just can't multi-task.... and perhaps going for more than 1 video at a time is too much for me to keep doing...
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Postby genestarwind21122 » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:18 am

This actually happended to me last year. I just got done with a video that was nearly 6 minutes long and then I went to work on another one. I got started on it but wasn't really feeling the video with my heart. Yes I could have edited the video but it wouldn't have been the same type of "man he put his spirit into this video" type thing. Anyway I did drop that project and still have it on my computer. I just have to get motivated again to do it. The best thing you can do is stand back for a little bit, watch some other amv's, and start on a project that you really want to do. And when you feel like going back to your other project, go ahead and do so. Good Luck man, hopefully you'll find a video out there that will motivate you.

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Postby dj_ultima_the_great » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:55 am

I know how you feel. I haven't edited in a little over a month now and have no clue when I'll start again.

Well, when I last got into a slump, I did this: took a really cute, silly game - that was easy to rip, by the way, since it's PS1 (Chocobo's Dungeon 2) - picked an absurd, yet appropriate short song, and made a video that didn't have a whole heck of a lot of effort put into it. It was cute and it was fun, but I didn't push myself to do anything spectacular with it. I guess what I'm trying to say is that maybe you should just try something fun. Don't make a big deal of the final product for now and just try to get yourself back into the habit of editing again.

Also, I have to second what IcyCloud said. When in doubt, take time out for gaming. ^_^ Right now, I'm finishing up playing some fun modes in DMC3 and I've just started going old school with Final Fantasy VI - which, oddly, I hadn't played yet.

So, that's my tip, and a second to the other one. Hope it helps you get out of your slump!


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Postby Decoy » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:52 am

I'm actually in a slump at the moment...


Yeah same here... i'm busy synching my new vid and the i do about 2 seconds before i start yawning... then i close prem and load up GGX or something else...

The best way to usually get out of it [for me] - take a dip in a ice cold swimming pool, after that i drink some coke while watching some good AMV's. Sounds wierd? well maybe... it works.
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Postby DeinReich » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:47 am

I've had 2 such stints of lack of motivation, each one right before I switched programs (WMM-Ulead, and now Ulead-?). I just knew what I wanted to do, but the software wouldn't let me do it. I went about a month and a half last time without even thinking about working on a video, until I got my new program. Same thing is happening with me right now, and who knows how long it'll take this time before I get the creativity back again ... :cry:
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Postby Zarxrax » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:49 am

A lot of times I'll go a while without editing anything, and then I have to MAKE myself get back to work, because I just don't feel like doing it. Once I actually get started and start seeing some results, I'll WANT to keep going, and I will usually edit every single day for a while.
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Postby SnhKnives » Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:00 pm

ive been like that ever since the end of AWA last year. I cant finish a decent video to save my life.
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Postby Scintilla » Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:21 pm

Sometimes I feel like I'd never get anything done if it wasn't for deadlines.

Kinda sad, really. In 2003 I just finished a video whenever and sent it in to whatever contests had deadlines coming up; two years later, my AX/Otakon video turned out to be somewhat of a rush job (hence the version updates), and my AWA Pro video certainly isn't the most inspired thing on the planet.

But what Zarxrax said: once I can force myself to get back into the editing flow, it's easier to keep going. Inertia, if you will.
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Postby inthesto » Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:59 pm

I'm also in something of a slump right now.

They just come and go. Kind of like playing Unlimited SaGa.
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