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.. picks up software platforms and packages, watches a few youtube vids and then masters them .. like I've seen you do with both Blender and the current AI epoch. I look at what you produce and have decided you have to be on welfare or independently wealthy. How could you squeeze so much into one life? I've published several 3d comics under the moniker of ThulsDoom and must say that my efforts are all puny in comparison. At times, I've struggled for inspiration, and those times come and go. In my humble opinion, Yuni.. the site is not near as important as the result. Who goes to the Louvre, looks at the Mona Lisa and says, 'wow, look at that frame'. What newly engaged girl shows off the box the ring came in? Your muse will return. You are one of the few people, I'll never meet that I'd like to sit down and just have a beer with.
I'm not too limited in my skills and tools, but I have a lot of troubles with exhaustion and feelings of futility while making all this... And when I see people who are genuinely passionate about something, they may make poor 3d art but they have interesting and memorable characters and they can't wait to make more about them every day. I've talked to an artist on DeviantArt who is quite old but said he will keep making art and sticking around as long as he can hold the mouse...
Since ai stuff appeared I have in mind literally every second day one great idea and can't resist to at least "check" if I could actually achieve it and when I dedicate ie 14 days to the thing I can see OMG I could actually do it! (Last project was 2D space game). And then I realize "wait a moment" to properly finish it you need to dedicate at least one full year of time.
Because Iam sadly not genial or talented but I can be very "dedicated" and with ai I can do a lot now! And then all commes "crushing" on you telling you that in 3 months there be another project or real life emergency... and you wont finish that game anyway. And it is maddening... .
You at least are creating complete beautiful images and stories and songs now...
Hey go for your ideas I think "interdimensional" travel is good thing it is different to alternative multiverses which is super bad idea. I was always craving for Helen and Kyle to visit your proper demonic demons and learn some proper "stuff" and that is just one story. Or for Nuv and Ramazir to visit modern world and try all new toys X-)
Oh and there is one thing I realized lately which connect to your realization about "life goals". You know those shortlived certain projects and ideas they after few months seems like they didnt even existed they are like a dream a something which is slowly fading away. And with real life it is same, there are certain things which just "works" for decades (or centuries) even few fictional worlds are just so good and strong that they are still vivid and "alive". But other things and events are just fading away like a dream. I used to hate those philosophical views but there is some truth to them.
Don't you realise you've already created an amazing world? Not just one world, but an entire Yuniverse! To me, your works live in a multiverse, where your characters interact in new and interesting ways through different timelines.
I don't think that needs fixing.
Actually, trying to squeeze that multiverse into a single world with consistent rules, would only take away from it, I think.
If I might make a suggestion... You've created maps of Yunia before. So, how about creating a map of the Yuniverse?
Put your works into timelines, planets, countries... Make it interactive, so we can navigate it and feel like time travellers!
That might even be a step towards creating the world you are looking for, but without having to limit yourself to a single planet.
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However, most people were unable to find the way to get back to the usual site and assumed that I simply wiped all my content and replaced it with garbage, so I had to return to the less secure but more accessible version.
Ideally, I know I need to implement logins and user accounts instead of just "security by obscurity", but I don't want to collect people's email addresses, since any server can potentially be hacked, so I choose to not collect any data in the first place.
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Basically, the person who sets small, realistic goals that can be achieved in short periods of time, has a happy life. But many people often set goals far beyond their abilities - like creating a video game when they has no idea how to do that, or writing a novel when they haven't written a single short story before.
In some way, I'm already following my own philosophy as I focus on small stories and specific pictures and when it's done, it's done, and it's satisfying. But suddenly I've begun to realize that I lack some bigger aim in my work... Now it's hard to think if it's a way toward even greater satisfaction, or maybe it's just an attempt to set an unrealistic goal and end up in misery...
Of course, it would still be disappointing to upload a pic I'm proud of and receive only 1-2 short comments or even none... But now at least I can see it's been viewed by 500+ of real people, and I can trust my data, so it makes me feel a lot better than simply receiving no feedback at all.
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For example, I see that almost everyone who draws both women and femboys creates two separate accounts. But here it's a matter of different user preferences, I think. I haven't seen a single artist banned for femboy art yet, except for individual images that are removed at the request of the copyright holders. Like, pictures of naked Link...
But there are probably many other subtleties that you need to know in order to avoid problems with the Twitter administration and so that people who are potentially ready to appreciate and love your art can find it.
I do not think that you should publish all your works on Twitter. Only those that will appeal to the maximum number of people. You can publish both new and the most popular old works.
Even though you say you've ignored Twitter for years, I see you have some very popular people following you. For example, porn star Jean Hollywood, with hundreds of thousands of followers. ^^
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I got a strong intuition that I don't want to participate in that whole alien culture... Perhaps this sentiment might evolve someday - but if that shift happens too late for me to take advantage of Twitter, I will have no regrets.
JUST THINK SMALLER - look at your contortion game you did made all the mechanics and boring hard parts and then kinda abandonet it (It is exactly what I do lot of times yeah i hate myself for that too...).
BUT WHAT IF you from the start set REALISTIC goal ie 10 screens in one town forrest etc and create complete full yet very small game. Sure it would be short but it would be finished and you could give it for free even on Steam and so on!!
And with stories... why create whole complex new world? No just start with adventure for 1-2 of your characters and give them I dont know also 10 images. Plus fluff like fantasy scenery of plains, rivers etc. No need to create huge world to compete with Tolkien create just extended deeper storyarc. And if some images in it arent top notch contortion masterpieces then what? Picture can be good and funny with your sexy kind characters even in normal positions!
But what to do with all the sci-fi ideas... maybe could open portals not just to Inferia (kind of hell) but also to Earth 2201, maybe revamp that region I once had called "Technicca", so Technicca is the way they call the "real world" in Yunia, while that region in Yunia is kind of like a train station or an airpot where they don't let any modern gadgets to Yunia or something like that... XD
But yeah, starting from something small is a good idea. Yesterday, thinking of all this gave me a brilliant idea of the "meaning of life" - basically the whole meaning of life is that we set goals for ourselves and then we either reach them or we don't, making us believe that our life is either meaningful or not. But it's us who set the goals, nobody else, but we often set completely unrealistic goals and then say life is meaningless because we can't get exactly what we want. So setting achievable goals can definitely help.
Sure I could point some minor problems but that is not issue nobody cant make masterpieces all the time daily!!!
The world just changed and believe me it really sux, because rate of change is faster than before in history of world. It is not just societal change as that happened in past too. But also world itself is changing because of technology.
For example I was very confident in my programming skills I have built in past 15 years, or my writing ability. Not to be some famous star but to live decent life.
Now "ai" appeared and every big turd in leather jacket is saying that programmers are thing of past and should be all laid off etc. Same goes for writing...
With you it is similar you artistic skills were unmatched just few years ago, almost nobody in the world could come close in quality and scope.
Now dang there is ai and anyone can just copy your style. Not at all fully but you know for many common people it is enough.
You have embraced ai and can create even better works you always dreamed about but "competition" is much more numerous.
Entire world is just fucked up by "attention mechanics" you either get peoples attention by any means or you dont exist... that is how those basic ai algos fucked this world and more advanced ones will play with our apish brains even more in future.
I just really hope you wont let this to crush you because to me you are still best artist and thats true :)
Just wish I could wake up in the morning to have a big project to work on - you know how Tolkien or Rowling or Sapkowski must wake up and they really know what to do with their day. Like, Tolkien had the hobbits - he wouldn't wake up to write about random cavemen or sci-fi because he just read Lovecraft or Jules Verne and he felt like writing something like that. He has his own thing...
Even most of my friends have concrete worlds and characters that they like to think about... Me, I always wake up to the headache and chaos of not knowing what to do and whole days feel empty, every picture is just a new disappointment, month after month... :( And even worse - I made up so many different stories that now it's impossible to choose just one...
About the world problems, there are too many if we start making a list of everything... But I think we need to focus on things that we can control directly, not the things we can't change at all, even if they affect us somehow - but if we can't do anything better then just try to adapt... ^^; Like, me I can't make people comment or view things but I can focus on the art itself that I can fully contorol.. ;D