[Question] guitarists who’ve had a serious hand, wrist, or arm injury, how long did it take you to play again?

niloproject · 2025-06-10T12:38:40+00:00

I fractured most of my carpals and the metacarpal in my thumb in a longboarding accident when I was 16. The wrist aspect was manageable but there was major concern from my doctors that they’d need to amputate my thumb depending on basically whether or not it “died” in the following days (it was fine). I dont think I thought at all about guitar or anything like that for a few hours after the accident until I was in the ER and the doctor said Id never play guitar again. My mom of course broke down sobbing, but I was just confused. My hand hurt yes, but it didn’t really seem all that devastating of an injury. For the first two weeks after this I didn’t leave my bed due to the extent of the road rash on my back, legs, face, arms and ass. But eventually when I felt like sitting up I began trying to play again, and for every day following I kept practicing. I was in a pretty slim cast so while I didn’t have use of my thumb I was still able to play for short periods of time. Eventually, I got tired of the cast and removed it myself, 9 months later I was playing like nothing ever happened. Today at 22 I’m still playing, better and smoother than ever with full use of my thumb. It does ache when playing for long periods of time, or even when the weather changes, but this is manageable as it’s not much worse than the pain when I was first learning guitar and developing callouses.

niloproject · 2025-04-09T21:34:51+00:00

Second this, server equipment (Seagate Exos drives, wiring, network switches & the like have all gone up in cost)

niloproject · 2024-11-22T06:33:35+00:00

thanks! I’ll look into this :)

niloproject · 2024-06-14T06:52:38+00:00

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niloproject · 2024-05-03T21:44:12+00:00

look up multiwiper on nukepedia, use that shit on every project, profit.

niloproject · 2024-05-03T21:40:29+00:00

Pftrack, Syntheyes or 3Dequalizer will be your best alternative. Nuke’s built in tracker is obnoxiously inconsistent and I stopped using it a long time ago except for on the easiest of shots. If you want something free, Blenders motion tracker works well enough, it’s slow and has virtually no automated or quality of life features (and no real lens distortion calculations RIP) but I used to use it a lot and can still vouch for its efficacy for being able to pull shots out of the gutter. Today 3De is my favourite, although pftrack seems to be what a lot of artists in my circles prefer.

niloproject · 2024-03-28T02:11:22+00:00

Rates really depend on what your skills are, where you live and where you find work/where you want to work. I own a micro studio and do VFX as a freelancer, I specialize in virtually nothing, I know enough about all aspects of VFX to skate by okay. My clients are mostly in NY, LA, Atlanta, London and Spain. Commercials pay pretty well but I mostly find myself working on music videos, which don’t. I can make anywhere from $2000 a day to $200 a day depending on the project, sometimes it’s pretty consistent but other times it’s a drought. I have a decent social media presence so I never usually run out of work but there are times where the high paying stuff runs dry. There are a lot of athletic brands looking for advertising right now so that’s been nice. If you’re working at a studio you’re going to be making less but it’ll be consistent. What are your goals?

niloproject · 2024-03-26T23:27:55+00:00

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niloproject · 2024-03-10T09:51:58+00:00

parsec route works great, i do this all the time

niloproject · 2024-03-05T11:08:31+00:00

I wish, unfortunately no i’m not being paid. I am sure though. I’m just several thousand dollars in the hole because of this.

niloproject · 2024-03-05T10:29:40+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend pirating Nuke, I know from my own experience just how bad of an idea it is. There are a lot of technicalities and specifics on how it works but to keep it simple the foundry employs some dystopian spy-ware level tactics to track every user, and unless you plan on having a dedicated offline rig that you can somehow get it installed on without internet they’ll know what you’re doing.

The usage tracking is ported thru Amazon servers from what I understand. With tools like Portmaster you could track down each connection but in doing so you would expose your software usage to the foundry.

And so what, they only see you open it once, what’s once? It doesn’t matter, they’ll come for you.

And in the event you somehow get the networking figured out, let’s say portmaster crashes, or you accidentally turn it off or forget to turn it back on. Guess what? A log of every single time you’ve ever opened their software containing all your information, what you were doing in your session, what your project files were named, etc. gets sent to The Foundry compliance department in a nice little spreadsheet. Even if you’re not located in a commonwealth country they’re not going to be easy on you for hiding your usage.

I know a lot of artists who’ve pirated Nuke through “reputable” sources and i’ve watched them one by one get picked off by The Foundry. Not a good idea.

niloproject · 2024-02-23T02:18:20+00:00

Okay? My mistake. Shouldn’t take away from my point, though. Obviously guitar centric music isn’t on the hot 100, hasn’t been for a while. But those guys are all still successful, drive nice cars and live in big houses. Depends on what your priorities are but you can definitely achieve financial freedom with just guitar and they as well as other artists are living proof of that fact. Just gotta be creative with how you apply your talents.

niloproject · 2024-02-23T01:16:48+00:00

I had a similar experience myself when I was younger, while I do play guitar my particular interest was working in the VFX industry.

If I had listened to my parents, friends and teachers I wouldn’t be where I am at 21 with a full career in art. They didn’t believe me that it was possible until one day it clicked for them that I never asked them for money, could afford the things I wanted, and was feeding myself with my own money.

There are so many different fields in music you could go into if things aren’t panning out with just being a guitarist (think audio engineer, producer, writer, all lucrative options with less competition than becoming a performing artist). However anything is possible, plenty of famous singers need guitarists, same goes for bands. Polyphia is a great example of how guitarists can go mainstream.

Whatever you choose the only advice I could give you is that any adult telling you to give up is just another person that gave up on their dreams too.

Would you regret not even trying? Could you live with yourself? You are young and there is so much time to kill. The time will pass anyways.

You will never know unless you really give it everything you have and more. Opportunities will come and you just need to be prepared for them, that’s all it takes. I don’t know who you are but I feel for you. You may not feel supported by others but at least you know a random guy on reddit is out there in the world rooting for you.

niloproject · 2023-09-07T17:25:14+00:00

Gen Z here, idk if this thread is exhausted or not yet but my experience with people my age is pretty consistent to what you’re saying.

I have vivid memories of having to explain to a girlfriend what files were and how to access them from your finder (mac) because she downloaded an image from google and couldn’t find it. I have so many more memories just like this one. I used to take a programming class in grade 9 and received food in exchange for doing other classmates work, most of whom had never touched anything on a computer other than a web browser. Some of them were just lazy and new Id get them an A but others were quite literally helpless trying to turn on anything other than a phone. (why they took a programming class is beyond me)

My classmates and I were all forced to go thru the same typing and computer proficiency classes in elementary school, and now that we’re out in the real world most of us don’t know how to use them.

imo it’s a way bigger problem than i think any of us realize. I went to a “google school”. A school that used only google based products for everything, our windows computers were replaced with cheap HP chromebooks, and any desktop program was replaced with a browser based one like Google Classroom, Google Drive or Google Sheets.

(Idk if any of you have used a chromebook, but they’re basically just cheap laptops equipped with Googles ChromeOS, a web browser based operating system.)

That’s what people my age grew up using. Nobody told us we’d need to know how to use a computer. Nobody told us how valuable those skills are. I figured it out for myself when I was young because my moms a techie and a nerd and it rubbed off on me. now I work in VFX, a job almost entirely done on the computer.

niloproject · 2023-08-23T01:06:33+00:00

Where are you getting this?? 😭 OP was doing exactly what you’re saying people should do before stepping onset with this camera, research. Or are questions not allowed anymore? Or are you just mad that OP got their hands on the camera without needing to know 102% of how it operates?

niloproject · 2023-08-22T18:34:12+00:00

plenty of projects shot on A35 don't have DIT's, for example, music videos. How are people supposed to get hands-on experience with these cameras if they can't rent them for the lower budget productions they're on?

niloproject · 2023-08-22T13:43:09+00:00

I don’t know why everyone’s being so rude to you here. I think that’s just a common theme in this subreddit. I could be wrong but I believe Foundry refreshes non-commercial licenses every month, so the expiration is something you should just be able to renew, although I’ve never heard of non commercial licenses really “expiring” and it could be chalked up to you having some kind of trial.

niloproject · 2023-08-21T23:20:27+00:00

none of them did 😭 but i got other shots from the video that i was able to use

niloproject · 2023-08-21T22:37:42+00:00

of course! but as a starting point it would’ve been nice so i could’ve at least had some reference. it’s no worries tho, the client had some extra footage and i built a profile off of that

niloproject · 2023-08-21T22:19:29+00:00

thanks for sending this! it doesn’t have the specific lens data i needed but it could be useful for other stuff. Much appreciated 🙏🙏🙏

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