My Struggles

I highly doubt anybody reading this will understand or relate to these struggles.

Personal

I have struggles on trying to maintain with my activities. When I'm NOT on the forums, I'm either at school or at wrestling practice. And let me tell you, it's hard AF to recover from wrestling.

Financial

I have struggles in finding a program, either for animating or making comics. I know there's ways to pirate these programs, but I don't want to get arrested for internet crimes. That's why I always look for cheap alternatives, like Windows Movie Maker for KR and GIMP for most of my MapleStory animations and comics (usually combined with Microsoft Paint).

Emotional

I know this just about sounds downright stupid, but sometimes, I have struggles with keeping my emotions under control. This is why I tend to be salty with some of the critiques I get for work. I'm getting better with controlling it and applying the CnC to my later animations and comics.

Mentally

I gave struggles with what to animate. And I know some of you are saying "Well, you didn't really improve much." That is true, but I AT LEAST need some ideas on what to animate, or for any upcoming chapters of the Dark Force.

I think that's it for now. You all probably might say I'm hard to reason with. Remember, I'm always available on Deviant-Art. If you want to send me a note about ANY of these issues, i.e. how to solve them, send me a note. I'm open.

P.S. This here has no flaming, unlike my earlier post.

I don't know how you expect people to respond to this in a discussive manner and I'm not sure this belongs in this section of the forums.
I mean it is off-topic, but is it really a discussion? It's kind of like a blog post.
But you're not exactly being attacked, bud.

"Obsv. 1"

BenthekidRS said: (post #334837)

I highly doubt anybody reading this will understand or relate to these struggles.

Let's start with this:
Saying "I highly doubt anybody" is a ｗｉｄｅ assumption.
I'm sure many of us have lives outside of the forums. Everyone's life differs. You may be right that some people can't relate, but to "highly doubt" the possibility of someone understanding you on this public site, where people come with similar interests in mind is a bit wild.
You never know, man, some peoples' struggles may parallel to yours and some peoples' won't.

It's crazy, but everyone goes through different paths in life.
Insane, right?

"Obsv. 2"

BenthekidRS said: (post #334837)

Personal

I have struggles on trying to maintain with my activities. When I'm NOT on the forums, I'm either at school or at wrestling practice. And let me tell you, it's hard AF to recover from wrestling.

Everybody has shit. Some programming guru told me that. Some may even compare to your physical struggles.
Others your mental. But you can't group and generalize each person into one being and assume none of us have struggles that we find as challenging as your recovery from wrestling.

"Obsv. 3"

BenthekidRS said: (post #334837)

Financial

I have struggles in finding a program, either for animating or making comics. I know there's ways to pirate these programs, but I don't want to get arrested for internet crimes. That's why I always look for cheap alternatives, like Windows Movie Maker for KR and GIMP for most of my MapleStory animations and comics (usually combined with Microsoft Paint).

We don't promote the use of piracy. But it is important to understand that there are programs out there that you can get for free. Not every free program is a piracy thing.
You just have to do heavy research or ask around for others' help with resources and resource management.

For example, Paint.NET is a free photo-editing software that many people use.
Extremely useful and would help you out with the comics you make.

"Obsv. 4"

BenthekidRS said: (post #334837)

Emotional

I know this just about sounds downright stupid, but sometimes, I have struggles with keeping my emotions under control. This is why I tend to be salty with some of the critiques I get for work. I'm getting better with controlling it and applying the CnC to my later animations and comics.

Emotions aren't stupid.
We aren't robots. Everyone struggles with self-control at some point. Emotionally or mentally.
It's not a flaw that can't be fixed or a habit that can't be broken.

You ever try meditation? Drink some tea and listen to zen tunes, my dude. Sit outside and breathe the air. Listen to the birds and shit.
You're at least acknowledging that CnC is meant to help and it's good that you're getting better at it.
Like I said, not everyone is out for your blood.
Some people genuinely wish to see you use their comments and criticism put to use in your work.
Actions speak louder than words. The next step after acknowledgement of the CnC is application.

"Obsv. 5"

BenthekidRS said: (post #334837)

Mentally

I have struggles with what to animate. And I know some of you are saying "Well, you didn't really improve much." That is true, but I AT LEAST need some ideas on what to animate, or for any upcoming chapters of the Dark Force.

I think that's it for now. You all probably might say I'm hard to reason with.

We can't feed you ideas like some spoon.
You watch anime? Cartoons? Play any cool games?
You see something sick you want to imitate or something cool pops into your head when you listen to a song?
Ever watch some fighting game combo videos and go "Wow, my character would totally do something like that!"
Write those ideas and feelings down.

Us giving you ideas would not be your ideas.

The only thing that's making it hard to reason with you is the wall you seem to put up whenever someone says something that slightly irks you.
You're telling yourself that because someone disagrees with you or gives negative feedback, it means they hate you.
That is absolutely not the case.

People can disagree on many topics but still be friends.
Why's that? Because of understanding.
You don't have to agree, word for word, with what someone has to say to have an understanding and people often forget that this works as a sort of middle ground.

Never be afraid to reach out to some folks.
We're on this forum the same as you. DM some peeps. o7
You may make some lifelong friends here, man.
My two best friends in the world for 8 years, I met on here. <3

That's all I have on hand. rn.
Edited it all into Spoilers to make it not a massive wall of text.
Luv, BH

Blindheart said: (post #334845)

Let's start with this:
Saying "I highly doubt anybody" is a ｗｉｄｅ assumption.
I'm sure many of us have lives outside of the forums. Everyone's life differs. You may be right that some people can't relate, but to "highly doubt" the possibility of someone understanding you on this public site, where people come with similar interests in mind is a bit wild.
You never know, man, some peoples' struggles may parallel to yours and some peoples' won't.

It's crazy, but everyone goes through different paths in life.
Insane, right?

Yeah.

Blindheart said: (post #334845)

We don't promote the use of piracy. But it is important to understand that there are programs out there that you can get for free. Not every free program is a piracy thing.
You just have to do heavy research or ask around for others' help with resources and resource management.

For example, Paint.NET is a free photo-editing software that many people use.
Extremely useful and would help you out with the comics you make.

Who, on the discord, could I ask?

Blindheart said: (post #334845)

Emotions aren't stupid.
We aren't robots. Everyone struggles with self-control at some point. Emotionally or mentally.
It's not a flaw that can't be fixed or a habit that can't be broken.

You ever try meditation? Drink some tea and listen to zen tunes, my dude. Sit outside and breathe the air. Listen to the birds and shit.
You're at least acknowledging that CnC is meant to help and it's good that you're getting better at it.
Like I said, not everyone is out for your blood.
Some people genuinely wish to see you use their comments and criticism put to use in your work.
Actions speak louder than words. The next step after acknowledgement of the CnC is application.

Zen tunes?

Blindheart said: (post #334845)

We can't feed you ideas like some spoon.
You watch anime? Cartoons? Play any cool games?
You see something sick you want to imitate or something cool pops into your head when you listen to a song?
Ever watch some fighting game combo videos and go "Wow, my character would totally do something like that!"
Write those ideas and feelings down.

Us giving you ideas would not be your ideas.

The only thing that's making it hard to reason with you is the wall you seem to put up whenever someone says something that slightly irks you.
You're telling yourself that because someone disagrees with you or gives negative feedback, it means they hate you.
That is absolutely not the case.

People can disagree on many topics but still be friends.
Why's that? Because of understanding.
You don't have to agree, word for word, with what someone has to say to have an understanding and people often forget that this works as a sort of middle ground.

Where do you think I get comic ideas like The Dark Force, Milon's Quest, Kurol Grows Up, FIRE, Project LED, Three Angels, and Horoscope Children from? But to answer your question...

Yes. I'm a geek when it comes to anime, I do occasionally watch some cartoons that spark my interests, and I do play videos games (mostly fighting games).
As for imitation, I wanted to do a soundline challenge, but always had some constraints. And Milon's Quest came to be when I was listening to TERRA's Alfarshear and other tracks.
I don't really watch any combo videos.

Also, what wall?

BenthekidRS said: (post #334846)

Who, on the discord, could I ask?

Zen tunes?

Plenty of people have access to the very same tools you see in used in others' animations, comics, sprites, and artwork.
Just takes some simple reaching out to gain these for yourself!

Listen to anything to relax?
That's kind of like a zen tune. Anything that eases your mind.
Personally, lo-fi hip-hop is my zen genre.
Joji, Nujabes, tomppabeats; all chill lo-fi kind of music.

Helps productivity as well.