After 4 years of serving the masses forum fatigue creeps in.
A rant on the whole ' what plug in does this' is brewing up this week.

Whatever happened to good old hard work and talent. Too many people we get on here, and I speak in general, appear to think it is only a matter of pirating the right s ware and then riding on the shoulders of giants to become film makers.

What it takes is of course bloody hard work and a viscoius stubborn streak - very much so in todays ' no film ' climate.

Yes you're right in a way. It the 'good old days' you had to buy magazines, go and speak to people, attend courses, but most of all get out there and actually do stuff to learn the ways. The net has made stuff accessible to all, and that can mean that as generations come up it becomes the immediate route, what would happen if the net went pear shaped?

The danger is that we are heading to a situation where the world is full of people who are 'experts', but only at reciting what they have read, without actually practicing it, and I firmly believe, always have done, that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

People should always be sure of what they know and know it well, what they think they know, and what they know they don't know.

I feel like a helpoholic trying to say no.
After years of explaining in pedantic detail how to do the scrlly s wars thing, or the rays text thing, or blurring faces, or using v envalopes and not loosing your mind I am becoming bitter....

Now I tend to hint and point out that you aint going to learn unless you struggle, and tbh there is a whole raft of stuff I have learned by doing that I considor sooo hard earned that i wont share with anyone - sticks out tongue.

You cant learn tennis by talking to a star - you gotta play it and play it nad play....

What I actually meant was that someone finally gave an answer that pleased him and he seemed satisfied. I don't think anyone gave bad advice (even me on this occasion!) it;s just that none of us gave the answer he wanted.

I totally stand by what I said before. If he doesn't know what he should be showing and, more importantly, why then he has no business whatsoever trying to produce a showreel. When it comes to explaining what his showreel is all about he'll not know how to reply.

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