The work, while it is still going wrong.
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The version I threw away
Three weeks of work, binned, with the reasoning. The failure is the useful part.
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Three weeks on this and I have binned the whole second half. Posting the dead version because the reason it failed is more interesting than the fix. Short version: I solved the wrong problem very well. The thing that was actually wrong was the pacing in the first ninety seconds, and no amount of work on the ending was ever going to touch it.
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Three weeks of work, binned, with the reasoning. The failure is the useful part.
Layered sources, presets and everything used to make them. Studio members.
Every decision in the last project, in order, including the four that were wrong.
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Free to read. No routine, no ritual, and one thing that genuinely made a difference.
Read before posting. It is short and it is the reason the room is useful.
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Me. I post most days and reply on Mondays.
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Three years in. Runs Critique when I forget to.
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Gives the most useful critique on this site.
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Members see finished work days before it goes anywhere else, and see the versions that came before it.
Two or three a week. Sketches, dead ends, the reasoning, and the bits that are embarrassing until they work.
Project files, brushes, presets, stems, templates — whatever the thing was actually made in.
Members talk to each other. It is small and it is moderated and it is the best part.
An hour on camera. Half of it is answering things, half of it is working while people watch.
This membership is the whole business model, which is why nothing here has to be safe.
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Two hours, cameras optional, nobody talks.
20
Nov
An hour on camera. Questions, then work.
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Dec
The quarterly one that anyone can come to.
18
Dec
Eight pieces of members’ work, looked at properly, in public.
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