Suffering for your Art

[EvaFan]

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.

[Kireblue]

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.

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

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.

[Ileia]

Let's just agree that we all lose to Todd

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=119088

[macchinainterna]

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

[HalOfBorg]

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.

[ZephyrStar]

To finish a particular video, I seriously gave up a month of my life. I'd wake up, go to work, come home for lunch (edit for an hour), go back to work, come home, eat dinner (edit for 6 more hours) go to bed, get up, go to work........ And the weekends were for getting chores done/buying groceries, but the rest of them and deep into the night were spent working on the video. Yep.

[Infinity Squared]

To finish a particular video, I seriously gave up a month of my life. I'd wake up, go to work, come home for lunch (edit for an hour), go back to work, come home, eat dinner (edit for 6 more hours) go to bed, get up, go to work........ And the weekends were for getting chores done/buying groceries, but the rest of them and deep into the night were spent working on the video. Yep.

Guess your forum status is pretty accurate then...

[Megamom]

Before I lay awake at night to finish my AMVs... that was not suffering for me, but that was annoying, well... Now I feel more relaxed about the edition!

[Phantasmagoriat]

I read the guides.

does that count?

[macchinainterna]

I used Nickelback. Does that count?