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Suffering for your Art

Postby Infinity Squared » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:03 pm

We all know this is all just for fun. We’re not paid to do this, we’re not strictly under any real pressure to finish anything and certainly it is completely our prerogative to just give it up when it’s gone too far.

But in reality, how many of us out here have actually put more effort beyond staying up past your bedtime and downing a few too many energy drinks to keep going? We’ve all probably heard that ‘artists’, when passionate enough, are willing to suffer for their art, never compromising on anything to ensure they create exactly what they wanted.

So I guess I just want to get a bit of discussion regarding people’s battle scars in this violent world of AMVing :asd:

I remember that when I created Only Bob, my computer at the time was suffering from a bit of overheating problem. I was also under pressure to get it done because the AWA Masters deadline was fast approaching. As a consequence, I generally edited during the day and rendered the 3D images at night. Bearing in mind that this is during winter in the southern hemisphere, throughout the day I would edit with my big electric fan blowing into the open computer tower (heating is left off obviously). And at night, I tended to sleep in the spare bedroom of the house which was never warm enough to begin with even with the heating on. That was at least better anyway than being in my room where the computer was rendering and the electric fan kept blowing cold air for the rest of the night. So yeah, that last week of rendering was a few days of constant cold and sleeplessness.
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby Mastamind » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:26 pm

Does masking hundreds of frames per video count as suffering?
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby Nya-chan Production » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:40 pm

What is this sleep you speak of? |:
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby Infinity Squared » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:43 pm

Mastamind wrote:Does masking hundreds of frames per video count as suffering?


If you broke your finger clicking so many times, then yeah :rofl:
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby dokidoki » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:02 pm

Infinity Squared wrote:If you broke your finger clicking so many times, then yeah :rofl:

Well, my LMB finger has a small callous... :|
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby Castor Troy » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:05 pm

Mastamind wrote:Does masking hundreds of frames per video count as suffering?


You all know how much I suffered and will continue to suffer for your entertainment. :cry:
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby machina21 » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:42 pm

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Castor Troy wrote:
Mastamind wrote:Does masking hundreds of frames per video count as suffering?


You all know how much I suffered and will continue to suffer for your entertainment. :cry:


*sighs* May God have mercy on my soul...

Is your suffering level...over 9000?
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby CodeZTM » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:52 pm

I remember when I was making Betwixt and Between, I had to listen to a Taylor Swift song nearly 9 million times. I'm doing it again right now with Betwixt and BEtween 2. >_< If that's not suffering, I dunno what is. :lol:

Meanwhile, in reality, I suppose the most I ever "suffered" was when I was editing something, and my computer I was working on overheated and my computer kerploaded [it couldn't handle Premier CS3 apparently, it was a really old computer].
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby Ileia » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:35 am

CodeZTM wrote:I remember when I was making Betwixt and Between, I had to listen to a Taylor Swift song nearly 9 million times. I'm doing it again right now with Betwixt and BEtween 2. >_< If that's not suffering, I dunno what is. :lol:


What if it had been a Miley Cyrus song? Ohoho! One up'd!


Myself, I've frequently waited until deadlines to make videos, not slept and then gone to work the next day, but that's about it. But that "lack of sleep due to editing" is fairly commonplace.
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby JaddziaDax » Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:03 am

I did a Jonas Brothers song... That's about as bad as Cyrus @_@ Maybe worse, (to me at least) Miley can sing O.o Jonas kid slurs like a drunk. I'd also rather listen to Miley than Taylor Swift... though both are pretty freaking trite.

I've bought DVDs just for videos, I probably should haven't spent the money though. If things get too much like work I take a break... sometimes the breaks last pretty long though.
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby EvaFan » Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:18 am

I seem to have the "lack of editing due to sleep" problem... or insert any other verb in the place of sleep and it works.
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby kireblue » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:12 am

Ileia wrote:
CodeZTM wrote:I remember when I was making Betwixt and Between, I had to listen to a Taylor Swift song nearly 9 million times. I'm doing it again right now with Betwixt and BEtween 2. >_< If that's not suffering, I dunno what is. :lol:


What if it had been a Miley Cyrus song? Ohoho! One up'd!


Myself, I've frequently waited until deadlines to make videos, not slept and then gone to work the next day, but that's about it. But that "lack of sleep due to editing" is fairly commonplace.

Where does Lindsay Lohan fit on the hierarchy of torture? I worked on my Gunslinger Confessions AMV off and on for an entire year, and restarted it twice. I think I win :rofl:

And 2 years ago, I started my AWA expo vid 4 days before the deadline. I also had to work at my part time job and go to my classes. There is a certain level of indescribable exhaustion that you feel when you literally work all day and night both physically and mentally.
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby Ileia » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:27 am

Let's just agree that we all lose to Todd

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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby macchinainterna » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:32 am

I have a canker sore on my lip, and I keep poking it with my tongue ... BUT THAT'S ONLY MAKING IT WORSE!
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Re: Suffering for your Art

Postby HalOfBorg » Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:06 am

It seems when I listen to music, I tap & grind my teeth along to it as well. So now they are wearing down a lot, one so much it split. It and I have gone our separate ways. :( I'm getting a mouth piece now for when I sleep.

While working on 'Duet' I would spend 8 hours at home, masking characters (torso, head, hair, mouths....), only to complete maybe 5 seconds of footage. FOREGROUND footage. My wife was great though, truly supportive. She even promised to kill me quickly if I ever started another.
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