Everybody wants Art...
LovePosted by Eskil Steenberg Fri, March 28, 2008 00:58:11...But nobody wants to deal with artists.
I started this project because I found myself without anything to do. I had a few options, either taking a job somewhere helping fulfil someone else´s dream, and hope to be discovered, or I could try to get enough money and people invested in me with out selling out. I chose a third option: do it all myself. I think the main reason is that I wanted the projects only possible point of failure to be me. That way i wont invest a substantial amount of time and energy only to have disappointed as something outside of my control would destroy my project.
Lately I have gotten a bunch of Emails from people who want to help me and as grateful as I am, I don't really know what to do with them since I know i can do the job myself.
Everybody thinks their ideas are good, but no idea can ever be proven to be good, without realizing it. My approach has been to try to prove my ideas by doing as much as possible myself and to learn the crafts. Learning a craft gives you a lot of insight but It wont necessarily get you where you want to go.
Sometimes that doesn't work out, Like I cant for my life get a job as a game designer, because when I show off my programming skills everyone wants to hire me as a programmer, and like with a feature script i just completed, I can complete (what i think) is a great script, but with out an agent, a production company and funding i cant get anywhere.
I learned to Program because i wanted to implement verse, I wanted to make a film, so I wrote a script, I wanted to make i game so i did. It cant always go the way you want, but If you find joy in the process that can be quite OK.
Some times i wonder what is most egocentric, to only do the things you want to do, or only to do what others want you to do in order to make them love you. Maybe there is no difference so you might as well do what you want.
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