Expired Talent

40+ year old feeling like my talent has expired after my career fell apart. I make sci-fi horror and DND inspired gritty fantasy. To vent my anger at the world.

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@TonyBabel Why does this have a content warning for adult content?

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@exolorian Nice! I’d never heard of seeddance.
20 a month isnt terrible. I’m most interested in filming something myself, then using something like Ebsynth or an AI to overlay on top of what I’ve made. I love the closeup of the blood hitting & his reaction is against your expectation.

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@exolorian That’s so cool. It looks like he died from the net, but are the gas masks and suits there to suggest something more nefarious?
When I saw the seagull on the sharks head like “you dead, I’m not scared” I laughed pretty hard. I love that.
Ah, I have so much to learn in 3D lol.

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@3DxDEV7 I remember trying 2D & loving it, but good lord it takes forever. With 3D it’s like playing with digital toys like when I was a kid, & you don’t have to draw every single frame. 3D is hard, just a different kind of hard. And I suck, so I’m biased.

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@TonyBabel Holy crap those are satisfying to watch in ways I’m not sure how to describe. Amazing work. Reminds me of watching cartoons as a kid on a CRT TV with stacks of VHS tapes ready to watch (mostly Disney movies or AKIRA lol, I had an interesting childhood).

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@tokunagataku Oh man, the sense of scale is perfect. The destruction is so satisfying.

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@neurocolor That’s so cool. I love the wires, I can almost hear the hum from that device.

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@Stuz0r Ok I’m following. That’s absolutely stunning. There’s so much detail in this. Dude, that’s so cool. I’m too old to be geeking out like this.

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@Stuz0r Omg the lighting is so good. The haze and the red light. Ahhh, I immediately got ideas about what would happen there lol. So cool. I suck at 3D, but I will keep trying.

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@K3lky The lighting and mood of this is fantastic. How long did this take to model amd compose?

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@tomoth_z2Z That’s great! The shine on the glaze of the donuts looks so yummy.

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@MarvinLeeeeeeee Ohhhh that’s so cool. Oh man, I spent so many years using a VHS player. Especially for Disney films. I first saw AKIRA on VHS, too.

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Show your work (book notes)
P6. “Be so good they can’t ignore you”
Focus every day on getting good. That’s it. Happy or sad, get it done.
Document it so I can see in months to years how far I’ve come.
August 2026: learn to create/animate base mesh in blender, next is Faceit.

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@Gryphon_3dcg That’s great! I never had a Wii. I always wanted one. Great work.

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@bananaSH668624 These are amazing. The fluidity is phenomenal.

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@glgrly That’s incredible.
Do you model your own assets?
Or download, compose, light and render?
I spent years trying to learn modeling. It’s so hard and I never seemed to improve. So I’m using premade assets like movie studios do. To mainly focus on composition and lighting.

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@bananaSH668624 That is fantastic. Oh my gosh, how long did that take to animate?

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This will probably be a document my 2D/3D/animation/writing/storyboarding/music journey account.
Hopefully I’ll good at maybe one of those things lol.
Goal: make sci-fi horror/extremely gritty noir/dnd inspired extremely gritty fantasy animations.
Why am I so scared to start?