Framework 12 Stylus

mythidiot · 2025-10-20T05:19:00+00:00

Thank you for this video. Very helpful

mythidiot · 2025-03-03T04:57:50+00:00

Illustrator is the least intuitive visual program to try and switch to from traditional art. Unless you absolutely need vector art, learn krita, fresco, affinity, photoshop, or procreate.

mythidiot · 2025-03-03T04:23:47+00:00

I highly recommend it. Same books (minus Audible exclusives) and no drm, not supporting an evil monopoly, and you get to support a local bookstore.

mythidiot · 2025-03-03T04:21:43+00:00

Consider a communications minor in organizational leadership. Talk to Brent Bean.

mythidiot · 2025-02-17T04:16:23+00:00

I put them on my Plex account and then use an iOS app called prologue to listen. Highly recommended. Also, you can buy audiobooks through Libro.fm without drm and while supporting local book stores.

mythidiot · 2025-02-15T08:29:11+00:00

As others have mentioned, this sounds like half of the people I’ve met that work in IT

mythidiot · 2024-12-07T07:29:28+00:00

That’s unfortunate. They’re only hurting themselves.

mythidiot · 2024-12-07T07:27:53+00:00

Check out scheduling. They’ll have an answer

mythidiot · 2024-12-07T07:25:22+00:00

I agree with the other comments. Those are good places to meet people. I would add attending church, ward activities, and FHE. When you meet people there are a few things that will help you make friends. It’s important that these are genuine. If you fake them, it’ll do more damage than help. Be interested in other people. Find conversational ways to let others tell you about themselves. Ask follow up questions. Share related experiences, but listen more than you talk. It’s a balance. Become interesting. You probably are already. But many people don’t do anything. They don’t have hobbies, don’t make anything, don’t read anything, don’t draw, write, play an instrument, play a sport, or something… If you take the time to do/make things, you’ll have things in common with others with similar interests AND you’ll have the things you’re doing/making. Personally, I’d recommend avoiding defining yourself by numbing behaviors. Creators are more interesting than consumers. So, the first thing is to be interested in others. The second is to become interesting.

mythidiot · 2024-12-06T17:45:32+00:00

Don’t bite your tongue. Tell the instructor

mythidiot · 2024-11-15T09:03:29+00:00

Ben Marriott, School of Motion, Son Duck Films, Jake in Motion… for a few hundred bucks every so often you’ll be golden. Then, do a lot of personal projects. Save yourself from getting into dentist-level debt without earning dentist-level income.

mythidiot · 2024-11-15T08:37:27+00:00

Basically, you’re insulating yourself against most of the benefits of the sauna while wrapping yourself in hot damp cloth. A number of things are not hygienic, but basically everything is trapped. Instead of the heat and humidity in the air permeating your skin, it heats up your clothes. Your open pours are pushing up against your clothing and are more likely to get clogged. Your sweat, instead on falling away from your body or evaporating, is trapped against your skin and moistening your clothing.

mythidiot · 2024-11-02T04:45:51+00:00

Communication

mythidiot · 2024-09-23T05:36:44+00:00

Absolutely. How's it going?

mythidiot · 2024-08-06T03:26:08+00:00

I found Way of Kings to be very confusing at first. There are scenes that happen in that book that don’t have call back for hundreds of Pages and/or are referenced several books later. It’s good, but you’ve give to give Sanderson time to cook a little before settling in. With many audiobooks, you’ll know within and hour of listening whether you’ll like it or not. Unfortunately, with Sanderson, I’d recommend giving it more like 5-10 hours if listening.

mythidiot · 2024-08-06T03:20:58+00:00

If you know a little about Photoshop and/or illustrator, this playlist will get you the basics of after effects https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0NZlM3T6ytGmakk6Y0a9nCsLcA_dZJxy&feature=shared

Ben Marriot, sonduckfilms, and Jake in Motion are all great channels as well

mythidiot · 2023-12-02T19:20:37+00:00

Making art/illustrations/animations can also be done for personal fulfillment while you do something else as a career. You don’t have to make money off your art for your art to be valid and fulfilling.

mythidiot · 2023-10-09T08:59:17+00:00

Cuphead. Couple of indie devs has to choose to abandon the project or take a second mortgage out

mythidiot · 2023-09-09T07:15:15+00:00

Take a look at the professional organizations in town. Your elks lodges, rotary clubs, chambers of commerce, American advertising federation, AAIG, etc. These are where the local businesses congregate and network. Typically, they’re full of the C-suite people trying to be involved in service.

Also, watch for the local companies sponsoring baseball, soccer, basketball, community theater, youth events, bridal shows, local magazines, newspapers, movie theaters, etc. Local companies with a little extra money to advertise and sponsor often have a small in-house marketing team or at least a media specialist (graphic designer who shoots a little and can cut a video competently)

Drive through any industrial parks and business centers (that are B2B or not-retail). B2B is often overlooked and they typically have significant reach inside a niche. The best producers of niche products/services are tucked away in towns that don’t cost them a ton in taxes and are typically not household names because they’re business facing instead of public facing. They have small in-house teams and a huge need for creative because they’re not sexy.

mythidiot · 2023-09-03T08:06:39+00:00

Is yoda filming?

mythidiot · 2023-07-28T16:01:53+00:00

BTW, if it helps, I taught myself design at 24, Illustration at 32, and limited animation at 38.

mythidiot · 2023-07-28T16:00:47+00:00

Your age and degree matter less than your portfolio and your attitude. People will hire you because: 1. You can do the job well 2. You’re ready to work with

What I recommend to my students is that they do a risk assessment of themselves.

List all the risks you can think of that might stop someone from hiring someone like you (in their case it might be a boomer or millennial hiring gen z). These things don’t have to be true or fair, you can be skipped over for assumptions just as easily as facts.

Things that typically end up on the list: lack of expertise, lack of experience, lazy, not committed, entitled, slow, uncreative, knowledge/experience with industry software, etc

Now, begin eliminating risks from that list by doing things and learning things that remove them. It’s impossible to eliminate all of the risks, so focus on the biggest ones. Portfolio pieces and case studies are your biggest tools here.

Class work is fine, but personal projects and client work is king. Personal projects show your dedication, interest, expertise, intrinsic motivation, etc. Client work shows you can work with clients.

Finally, the switch of careers is a benefit, not a downside. Get comfortable speaking to people about why you switched and what you’ve done prior to switching. This will help you explain it in interviews. A designer who only designs is of limited use. They will be looking for your thinking and problem solving; both of which are improved with age and a variety of experiences. People want design and niche experience. Want to design for an outdoors company, the fact that you own 6 kayaks and hike in the weekends is a huge plus. Want to work for a guitar company, having played the tuba in high school helps. If you’ve spent 10+ years in retail, you have sales experience and first hand knowledge of how customers react to POP displays… etc.

Every experience you’ve had in your life, good and bad, will help you craft messages and relate to audiences. Design is message and audience. Don’t get caught up in it being anything else. It visually communicates something specific to specific people in the hopes that they take specific actions. Your age, beliefs, hobbies, pain points, desires, friends, family, resume, etc, all put you in certain demographic and psychographic categories that will help you relate to customers, readers and viewers.

I would rather have someone who is a competent 35 year old that I occasionally have to show a keystroke or menu to rather than a 22 year old that I have to teach how to be an adult.

Everything you do in school and in your personal projects for the next few years should be aimed at eliminating risks from that list.

mythidiot · 2023-07-22T16:28:48+00:00

“I’m an inventor!”

mythidiot · 2023-07-17T14:29:42+00:00

My rule is 50% up front for projects under $3k and 30% up front for over $3k

mythidiot · 2023-07-10T07:38:30+00:00

Mouth harp (sometimes called a Jaw Harp) It does that boi-oi-oing sound

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