Game Development - Artist Monolog
SpriteAttack
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Day 96
I can’t put my finger on the exact time that it happened, but did it ever happened to you that you start a discussion on top and before you know it, you hit rock bottom? Well, it happened to me… It is not clear when the discussions went from:
EMH: Please do my art
SE: Nope
EMH: Please?
SE: No
EMH: Please!
SE: Na
EMH: Please!?
SE: Noooo!
EMH: Please.
SE: No!
EMH: Please?
SE: Ok
EMH: Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
To…
SE: I worked all night on this one, what do you think?
EMH: Sloppy. It is one pixel short, odd size, eyebrow is wrong color and frankly a bit spooky.
SE: I’m sorry, let me try again…
SE: This one?
EMH: Eyes should be half way; hand is looking weird and who told you to add a hat?
SE: Sorry
I decided to see if the community could help me understand how things got to this point. To do that I’ll need to take you 3 months back to a sunny day somewhere in Australia.
Day 1
I always saw it as a compliment that many developers approached me about doing art for their games. However, after getting so many daily emails wanting art I just had to take a break and refuel. So I took my surfboard and went to the one place that I could find peace, the beach – or so I thought.
I can’t put my finger on the exact time that it happened, but did it ever happened to you that you start a discussion on top and before you know it, you hit rock bottom? Well, it happened to me… It is not clear when the discussions went from:
EMH: Please do my art
SE: Nope
EMH: Please?
SE: No
EMH: Please!
SE: Na
EMH: Please!?
SE: Noooo!
EMH: Please.
SE: No!
EMH: Please?
SE: Ok
EMH: Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
To…
SE: I worked all night on this one, what do you think?
EMH: Sloppy. It is one pixel short, odd size, eyebrow is wrong color and frankly a bit spooky.
SE: I’m sorry, let me try again…
SE: This one?
EMH: Eyes should be half way; hand is looking weird and who told you to add a hat?
SE: Sorry
I decided to see if the community could help me understand how things got to this point. To do that I’ll need to take you 3 months back to a sunny day somewhere in Australia.
Day 1
I always saw it as a compliment that many developers approached me about doing art for their games. However, after getting so many daily emails wanting art I just had to take a break and refuel. So I took my surfboard and went to the one place that I could find peace, the beach – or so I thought.
Comments
I wouldn't call this attitude if you knew the full story of what he had to put up with....
Do you have more details?
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You need an elephant skin to stay happy sometimes.
I offer professional services as a graphic designer and web builder for decades and the stuff you have to put up with at times is simular as what happens here.
Just so you know: I do appreciate your input (and the input of lots of others).
And I love your artwork.
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I would say:"I will have to charge you extra for the next revision(s)" and if they refuse, you move on to the next project. Its not worth getting burned-out over clients like the one you're describing.
Love your stuff. Keep up the good work:)
Heh, maybe I'm just in a good mood today so I see things in a positive way, anyway.. The artwork looks adorable as always man
Roy.
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Reading his post again, I'm quite sure it is a story with a happy end... Otherwise, why put it on the annouce your game forum?
Who would have thought? A developer? On the beach? On top of it, it seems that I couldn’t shake this guy off, everywhere I went he soon followed. I tried to push him off gently (and not so gently), but it seems to create an opposite reaction and his demands were only getting more annoying and fairly personal.
@FryingBaconStudios @SaladStraightShooter Cool aid or not, if everyone that needed a break from the forum will come back with great comic, maybe being bad is not that bad...
@SpriteAttack do we have to wait a full day for day 3? I saw you started the thread as Day 96, so we might be here for awhile.
great work!!!
I'm glad you are in again,because you give the forums more life
thanks for your great work!!
WTDeveloper
i think an ebook with your different days would be really cool
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Did I even mention how blue your eyes are, Chris?
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And than a developer comes in with a simple request and @SpriteAttack gives him an Austrian Afro? Doesn't seem fair
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Mine as well come train with you, Chris.
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Darren.
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