SciFi Pattern Generator Script v.1.1 for 3ds max 2008+

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Digital Drawing

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Self Motivation

About 11 years ago I started sharing my amateur work on the Internet, as a hobby and just for the sake of learning it. I was a banker and had my own little hopes, but not huge expectations. I shared almost everything I made. My work and my character were bashed by some, liked by others. It was a huge mixed bag in a very competitive and somehow harsh reality that was the CG scene back in the day in Brazil. I got a lot of mixed messages, like someone would tell me that my work was pretty bad one day and then I would get a front page on CGTalk, 3DTotal or CGChannel next week, showing that exact same work. The fact that I had success with my new found career has a lot to do with not letting myself down by the negative comments about me or my work. By being focused and trying to prove people wrong, just to prove a point to myself, not to them. By producing a lot of work, trying to improve always, using the best work I could find as a reference. By letting the work do the talk, reason why I never needed a demoreel to get a job, since my work was already known by the recruiters. Some people said that I was promoting myself too much when I posted little trophies in my website, thanks to frontpages and challenges I won. In my mind I was just proud of my little achievements, but that really seemed to hurt some people. I then started to use this to, sure, promote myself. I set a goal to leave the country and to get a job in the entertainment industry. Since the goal was set, it took me less than two years to achieve it, by working hard and keeping the focus. The learning became stricter and a little less free form, to accommodate the new goal, the effort paid off. Today everything is so different. We got Facebook. We are in touch with a TON of talented people who are part of our friends list. It's so humbling to see amazing work being produced daily and new talents being revealed. Some people remind me of myself when I started, overwhelmed by the amount of cool artwork and to those I say: don't let those works push you down. Don't think people have supernatural powers because they produce good work. They started as you did and learned what they do because they put time and effort to do so. They were focused and they filtered the negativity and used it to become better artists. They too produced (and still produce) not so brilliant work. The notion that you can only show "perfect" pieces is absurd. Even the most brilliant artists will produce not so inspiring works from time to time. Still, people choose to post their work, even with the mistakes, just to show that they too are humans. Well, at least good artists do this. Not so confident artists will only show that "perfect" work that they will spend a long time before showing, just to make you look bad by saying "a little doodle I made in the afternoon". You know what? Just ignore what's said. Look at the work itself and let it talk to you. No matter how long does it take to make, the work will be good or will be not. Will communicate or will not. It will have a "soul" or it will not. My advice for aspiring artists is: produce a lot of work and share a lot of work. Don't expect to get it right every single time. It will not happen and if you expect that you will be frustrated, guaranteed. Stop thinking too much and start producing more work, now. Do it for yourself. Produce a lot, love what you do, enjoy the process, promote yourself, yes, because nobody else will do it for you and let life take care of the rest. At the end, the body of your work will have a voice. People will look at the bad stuff, talk trash about it or whatever. It's all good. But it's the good work you make that people will remember and there's no other way to produce good work other than producing a lot of work. It's that simple. The perfect picture on the cover of that magazine you love was part of a photo shoot and was selected among hundreds or even thousands of pictures and still had digital touch up to make it look like that. I believe you will never produce anything memorable if you don't produce a lot of average work in the process. Produce, share, take care and have fun. Cheers.
 Krishnamurti M. Costa   aNTROPUs
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By Bobby Chiu
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http://hazardousarts.deviantart.com/journal/Lacking-Motivation-I-hope-this-helps-359045816 By Hazardous from Polycount
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3p-2M3sU30
By Joe Mad