Disclaimer: I used to be in CG society in late 2014, sort of between the two sides here
Andrew Price took a statement from his “Advice for the 17 year old me” Podcast and decided to turn it into a full on article…
Results?
Pretty much what you’d expect from an article titled (Why I avoid Blender art forums)
Lot of rage,
This time it’s kind of justified, kind of.
First of all,
Andrew Price isn’t completely wrong not even 75% percent wrong
Yeah you might improve if you are pressured by people around you
Like, I remember how horrible I was back in '12, when I never posted my work(and never will!11)
Or received criticism, I thought that making a transformers movie was easy, just use vray!1 it’s not hard1!1
Then I joined a fanart community
since the standards at the time were pretty low I actually caught on and became a little bit better
Before I continue this story would like to clear up one thing(Because what I’m about to say is going to support the other camp)
ANDREW PRICE IS NOT LEAVING BLENDER
Seriously I don’t know which part of the people’s arse they got this from but
HE’S NOT
He said something similar to this article like 3 years ago in early 2014 in a podcast
Didn’t leave then, wont leave now
Al right now to continue
It actually got to the point where I surpassed the majority of people there
Did I stop getting better? No actually I still am getting better
You see the feeling that you are actually better artwork than the majority of people in a society is actually motivating(I know I sound like I got it all figured out but eh, yeah I do ;))
You see, being in a small society actually helps you get better at what you do
Also another thing
starting out in the hardest level is called bad game design, just saying
And honestly Andrew, what did you think was going to happen? You could have titled your article ANYTHING else just not this, you are basically inviting hatred
and this line “Why Blender forums (usually) won’t help you grow”
is giving hatred a nice warm cushion and a cup of coffee
(Image by this guy)