I feel like if I brought a perfect cube back to the stone age I'd be lauded as some sort of god. Such a precise, symmetrical shape would have never been seen before and humans love sharp edges and symmetry
Warning One of a very few actually serious posts, and a vent no less, from me down below.
My parents are pushing very hard against me pursuing an art career... There's a lot of talk about how unstable the field is and difficult it is to get a good job. And the fact that I had the chance to take art classes in middle school and could have started earlier but didn't- I think it was because I had a bad art class! I remember it being kind of weird and unstructured in the wrong ways, and I was a kid so I didn't know any better and thought I shouldn't continue those classes
Sorry for venting a bit. But I've also thought recently about how I've been scribbling and drawing things basically my whole life (I have a bunch of old stuff I might post in my art thread soon) and where my ideas of my future have been, and I really feel motivated to see this through. I have an idea for an animated video I want to make very soon and a bunch of other things floating around.
I do understand that art is one of the worst and most difficult fields to enter. And I'm not faulting them for being very wary of this- hell, I'm not a person who's good at knowing what they want. But I really care about this, and if I have to show them I'm dedicated to this, I'll do it. You know how lazy I am with most things? Almost never been the case with art
As a side note, my parents told me a few years ago that making a successful YouTube video- one with a lot of views- was incredibly unlikely and relied on a bunch of skill and luck that I would probably not be able to get. I have a video with nearly 200k views as of writing this post.
for anyone who cares, watch this, i think it's a great analysis of ai and the video's conclusion comes with a message that cuts through a lot of the fear that's been going around the technology recently. it's definitely worth a watch and the guy knows what he's talking about
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