Definitely, this is when I was hit with burnout the hardest. I've recently passed this and I'm in the latter half of my comic, and my motivation has returned again. If I had any advice, always know the ending of your story before you begin, so that you're always driving every plot thread towards a specific end goal.

feels like once you've finished laying out the initial part of the idea, it's like suddenly coming to the foot of a very tall tower and questioning if it's really worth scaling it. It's imposing.

Totally agree

Much agreed. It's terrible honestly.

You just gotta keep chipping away. Keep in mind that any progress is doing something, even if you can't see what it's doing just yet. Eventually you'll get to that finish line, and you might not even realize you've passed it.

LOL!!! So true! HAHAHA

Same

It did get a bit depressing halfway through lol

I wish I could see this video few years earlier, its better when you know how it really is, so you know all "the rules" and then you can better consider all pros and cons. Its huge difference between school and the real life, but this is true to every subject that anybody decides to study xD

People keep going! When you have a passion project you kind of have no choice 🤣 ... all your efforts will bring benefit to yourself and many others if you genuinely attend to it... besides these types of projects can always be broken down into smaller and more manageable mini-projects... make make make... share share share 😎

Art and creativity don't cause burnout... that is purely work stress. I'd rather work in a coffee shop and do my own animation projects than work in "the industry". 🤣🤷🏼‍♂️

@@dublinphotoart Haha I feel that. Theoretically, I'd love the experience of working with a team on a big studio project, but making my *own* dream ideas happen and collaborating with close friends on their projects is incredibly fulfilling.

Yes as a middle aged dev i can confirm everything in this video lol

Its ok if you will not animate that much as you get older if you are your own boss and create amazing things by leading others or learning a new discipline. No need to do only one thing forever even thought you love animation once you are good enough for what you feel is good enough maybe you can grow to something deeper its your journey to find what that is and evolve.

Do what makes you happy. And stop worrying about age! 30! Damn that's young! lol 😆 I have to keep telling myself this sh!t too because it's so easy to get caught up in, not to mention so g*ddamn depressing when you go look at the mirror and ask yourself, *"How the f@ck did I get so ducking OLD???"* 😭 We are so obsessed with the fear of death when in actuality he could come get us no matter what age! 🤣 What we all need to do more is live in the moment and stop worrying about the future and missing the past. Enjoy the process and progress in the game we call life! 💜

same here. Struggling to start a drawing career at 29 and getting encouragement but pushing through my inner wall to get things get real.

Just turned 30 and ironically, I've been stressing over what to do with the little time I have now, making my channel pretty much dead as a result lol

@@punkyagogo hey you're not on your deathbed dude xD. We need to chill down a bit. I know we never know and I hope you the best in the future. But. Seriously. PS : I realize I interpreted your message as "the time I have left" but maybe I misinterpreted.

Stop stressing, stop worrying. Get off this platform and JUST GO AT IT.

understandable, have a great day

I'm the worst, I sleep too much and also get nothing done.

@@GoldenLeafsMovies 🤣🤣 i hear that. Believe me I have all kinds of tricks to trick myself into simply starting some work... i think once you start you're fine. For example i pretend i am my own employee and i am on the verge of sacking myself if i dont show up, result is I switch my brain off and just show up. My brain joins me later. You don't need super creative ecstatic motivation to start working on something you just need to switch your mind off until you get into it. Its kind of like warming up. 🤔

@@dublinphotoart I've tried to start various projects but I don't feel comfortable with my skill level yet so I just delete everything.

@@GoldenLeafsMovies 🤣 i don't think we ever feel comfortable with our skill level! Doesn't matter. Don't delete. Keep in a folder somewhere. And most importantly practice finishing things! However small! 🤔

Then you dont know nothing about animation.

@@sumuggum İts up to you.

Blender comes with grease pencil, I’m sure that can save you some time!

OMG ITS KEKE FLIPNOTE OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH

@@LuanGarcia123 it do be kekeflipnote

I love that Austin McConnell’s comment has been completely ignored. Gotta agree though, these are great videos!

@@teejayburger2136 hahahaha

@@teejayburger2136 not anymore

Wow, that's incredibly heartbreaking. You are one of the top animators on the Internet though, I think leaking a little sample/preview, or even a simple announcement video/patreon inquiry would help gain support. (Vanripper did something similar prior to Helltaker, I believe.) I am certain the fans willing to support you will compensate for the people expecting the usual thing. And of course, your friends can also help get ppl excited about your ideas. Best of luck! I'm just a lowly consumer, but I will do what I can to help.

@@shadowspark yeah, recently did a teaser preview 3days ago. while its expected it didnt got much interest, the comments are hopeful. but I'm just going to not expect much out of it when its done heh.

@@NCHProductions didn't expect to see you there. Do what you love !

It's easier to "wow" people with personal stuff than ever before. Technology makes it increasingly easy to do stuff that only 20 years ago would've required a budget of millions. See, for example, programming, photography, filmmaking and animation. I still agree with your general statement, though.

@@gayusschwulius8490 I fundamentally disagree. The top goes up faster than the bottom, especially as the budgets get greater and greater. You can't do Avengers or a Disney movie alone. Even though big projects like this result in wasted resources from their size, 200 people working at "40% efficiency" is still the equivalent of 80 people working at 100%. What you say is a myth that technology gurus have "educated" us to believe by making us focus on our relative empowerment as individuals (which is indeed true), rather than considering the big picture and actual competition on the global market. In short : technology might empower individuals, but it actually empowers the "big players" even more. I don't think you can purchase your own motion capture studio or an army of good actors for your projects as they do, now can you?

@@AnAngelineer You're absolutely wrong. As technology progresses, the gap between "high end" and "low end" becomes smaller and smaller. Compare modern indie films with big budget productions. Now compare the difference between AAA movies and indie productions in the 80s. Doesn't the visual gap seem much smaller to you nowadays? You can buy cameras that produce 6K-footage nearly indistinguishable to professional Hollywood technology for a few thousand dollars now while you had no other choice but to shoot on an extremely expensive 35mm film camera in the 80s. Your alternative would've been to use a tape recording camera which looks like utter garbage and cannot be presented in a cinema. The professional sector, on the other hand, still uses 35 mm cameras to a large extent, so there was next to no improvement in the visual quality for the "big players" AT ALL in the last 30 years. Compare the visual effects independent people like Corridor Digital do with those used in professional cinema. Is there as much of a difference as there would've been 30 years ago when effects were either practical or drawn by hand? Same applies to 3D-animation. Compare an indie project like Agent 327 to a Pixar movie. Is the difference even noticeable at this point? Do you think someone would've been able to make an animated movie this close to a real production 20 years ago when Toy Story was released? Sure, the quality of professional productions noticeably increased as well, but nowhere near as much as the capabilities at the "lower end". Traditional animation? 50 years ago, Disney used extremely advanced custom built film-based machines to allow for fluid and good looking animation. Nowadays, professional 2D-Animators use the very same Adobe Flash that you could install on your PC tomorrow for a small fee and Toniko can create stuff that looks and feels like something that could run on TV. Game design? Today, the difference between a game like Banished (developed by one person) and the Anno series (developed by a huge studio) is next to impossible to tell visually speaking. Because the better graphics get, the less they are distinguishable from reality for the consumer and a huge difference in budget becomes less and less visible. Compare that to 1995 when no private person could've ever dreamed about creating a game like SM64. To assume that the "elite" profits more from technological advancements than the independent spectrum is absurd. Consumer technology always advances in a way that makes far more of an actual difference than professional technology.

@@gayusschwulius8490 Whatever. Believe what you want. Or even better, prove me wrong by making that super awesome wowing project you implicitly claim is so easy to make. If technology is so simple, that should be no problem for you. Good luck.

@@AnAngelineer It's not easy and I absolutely did not say that I'm capable of doing it - at least not in the field of animation. But it's EASIER than 30 years ago to make a project that is compareable to professional productions. Back then it was absolutely impossible. Nowadays, very talented people can do it, thanks to technology. I illustrated that with many real-world examples.

Same thing ! Aussi bonjour :P

Cette année ne craint pas plus que les autres, et le pire reste à venir. Courage

what is the project?

@@mikey1036 a webtoon

Thank you. I think I needed to read that.

I needed to see this too, thank you very much! All the best for your work and I hope you're having a great day today :)

yea indeed it is cool something keep alife when we died

I'm like you, I try to make games for years now, and I've never been able to finish one, and even if I could, publishing is almost impossible

I feel you. As someone who has played video games all his life and started composing music a few years ago I've wanted to get into videogame music forever and always felt like it was too overwhelming. I've only recently found the motivation drive and self belief to start making a habit of learning game design and learning video game music each day. If you're looking for someone to make music for your game I'd be down to give it a look.

hey man, I've on the same journey as you. I'm currently working on making a youtube channel plus a twitch channel to get my multimedia out there. The scope of what I've planned is bigger then anything I've attempted before and it's been tough hammering away at it every day. I would love the chance to play your game on my stream whenever you get it completed! Let me know if you want to keep in contact! If not, that's ok! I hope you keep on pushing.

@@justinb9185 Thanks! Sure, that would be great)

@GateKeeperGames 12 lol, making a game is definetly NOT the easy part

"Thanks for dumping all this on me Past Self, *you asshole*"

Surely turning something you love into a job is going to make you hate it... there are other types of jobs 🤷🏼‍♂️

Life is less hard when you start it with a lot of money

Fast forward one yesr late and I completed my personal project, I also do an education in marketing & communication in order to seel my book to the target audience. Also social interactions are going better than ever before!

@Thea S Being a hobbyist doesn’t seem as valid.

Interesting how I'm of the same age yet I have nothing to show. I'll never get to a stage where I think it's worth releasing a work to the public. I do feel bad that I'm taking my time but it's cause I rarely produce anything meaningful, if at all. My low self esteem doesn't help, but everyone has that. I've heard from people in the video game industry that actually grinding those extra hours are good when young, then when you make it big, the money will cover therapy. I think there is something about real fear of limited lifetime that can be used as motivator, but I guess it can be detrimental if not in the proper mindset. Yet I'm the opposite, while I have fear of being forgotten or dismissed by time, I don't do much work since I think I'll be stuck in "study" phase forever. (Sorry if this comment is long and goes all over the place without any real substance)

That's good!! Putting your health before work is going to be better in the long run.

Golden-Leaf I’m in the same boat, I totally feel that.

@@GoldenLeafsMovies Oof, same here

same here, having chronic pain, health always go first

This comment made me think. I've got my own little project I'm working on-nothing too out there, just a painting I've had in mind. And I'm finding myself increasingly stressed about what was supposed to be something fun for me to make. Maybe it's time i take a step back and think about just what I want for this project.

Laura and Yoana, your feelings are the combinations of how i feel at the moment. the level of mental stress is crazy and the fact that socially i am forced to pretend I am ok at all time. i wan to complete 12 paintings by next summer, its only this year ( 5 years later) that i have worked out how to organize the whole operation somehow. I am painting oil.

🖤 kind of same 🖤

Relatable.

Don't define yourself too soon.... do more to help or support others and you'll feel better all round.... your current mind state is only a result of your regular habits 😎

We're all trying to find that reason to keep living, some find it easier than others. Happiness isn't easy for everyone, for a lot of us it's damn hard. If you do find something that makes you happy put your all into it, try to hold onto that feeling for as long as you can and remember why it made you happy. Take the oportunity while you still have time to improve yourself, 6 years from now when you're 25 you might want to play guitar or learn to code and you'll think to yourself "I wish I had started learning this when I was younger." If you're an Artist maybe focus on improving your art and once you start seeing an improvement you might find joy or take pride in it. I checked out your channel and watched your speed painting video and I can see that you've already got talent but there's room for improvement especially when it comes to adding colour. Anyway I hope this helps in some miniscule way, probably not but I figured there's no harm in trying. Just know you're not alone in the way you feel and distracting yourself from the existential shit show that is life will get easier with time.

@@dreddshift5684 "Happiness isn't easy for everyone" a 100% yes. I consider myself a pretty happy person, but only because I spend a considerable amount of my energy per day specifically to keep myself happy. I'd say 20-40% of my daily energy goes into maintaining my mood and nothing else. Most of the time it's fine, it gets hard when for some reason there's a time where I don't have a lot of energy to begin with and I'm just exhausted.