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@IsabelSydow Queen of Shrimps (but u can call me Dan.)

Thank you so much for the encouragement !!!

I will apply the old adage "practice makes perfect."

I'm trying to stay away from full-on AI, not only on principle, but because I want to GO THROUGH the process of making.

Creating and learning used to come easy to me in my youth, but as I'm aging, my TBI is affecting my ability to function more.

Learning and making things with our hands help delay brain decay.

I'm literally desperately trying to make art because my life depends on it in more ways than one.

The Daniel 🖖 4mo ago 💬 1

Absolutely, I would never hand off the creative process to AI. And I say this as someone who has been doing a good deal of vibecoding lately. I never let the machine take over control of the idea.

One thing that may improve your process is better tools. Ask other artists and animators what they like to use. You might be surprised by the answers. Often the tools people use are the result of a lot of trial and error, or just familiarity with one interface over another, even if it’s outdated.

For example, I’ve used the Adobe suite for 20+ years, so it would be a real challenge for me to abandon it, though I’ve been incorporating more non-Adobe products into my workflow as of late. Still, for the sake of efficiency, I tend to gravitate back to what I know will accomplish my task vs. what people who never started out with these tools might choose.

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@IsabelSydow Queen of Shrimps (but u can call me Dan.) 4mo ago

We used original adobe photoshop from 1995 all the way thru 2014 by means of using a virtual box. It completely couldn't run after that.

It's good and bad to stick to what had always worked. I feel like the pro is the learning to be resourceful by figuring out ways to work with the limitations to produce unexpected results. The con, I guess it'd be the sticking oneself in a rut, where suddenly we become afraid of using something new.

I have to be honest. I grew up in abject poverty. We had no running water, sometimes no electricity, it was 120F outside, in a dog eat dog family (with a few exceptions). This programmed me to be resourceful but also to not use new stuff EVER, only as a last resort.

So, in some aspects, is good because I know how to get water out of a rock (sorta speak). But in other aspects, it brainwashed me to not want to try out new things. It pains me to use something new.

Thankfully, I love life enough to want to defend my alive status. This forces me to learn to use something new when I detect my need of it.

Why we had so many inventions in the 19th & early 20th century? Because we needed them.

Necessity mothers all invention.

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