Forgive me if I insert a little-actually-big rant but…
This is NOT how a team should be like!!
I’ve been in an original comic team for a few years now, consisting of myself and a few friends, and while sometimes different people work on different projects, there’s usually two to a project and the others are usually welcome to contribute a little something-something.
Yes, in our own team, there are people who are more “professional” with ideas and people who don’t really provide with as many “good” ideas compared to the other person, but lemme tell you something:
They sometimes save your ass by providing a “stupid idea”.
Because, guess what, The “professionals” are the ones that overthink like hell, just so they can get that “perfect idea”. Sometimes a stupid idea will put you right on the track of making this “better idea” into an even GREATER idea. And there you go, you mixed ideas! Hell the fact that you even HAVE ideas for another person’s project is an HONOR, personally speaking, because that tells me you LOVE this project enough to want to bounce ideas off of!
I can’t begin to tell you how many concepts in our projects were saved by the presentation of stupid ideas. I’ll admit, I’m one of the “professionals” (practically the leader) on the team, and at some point, I was almost as ignorant as this “bff” (aka the sad excuse of a team leader in my eyes.)
I can point out SO MANY GOD DAMNED PROBLEMS with this, such as:
-putting your team members down -putting yourself as SUPERIOR to said team members (and best friends, like seriously, I’ve had enough of that shit in the past decade, it makes me seriously sick seeing shit like this.) -Striving for perfection that you’re willing to hurt yourselves and/or belittle another over it
This team can and will fall apart because one or both folks will either break entirely or just be pushed to the edge and stand up for themselves.
Leader or not, never think of yourself as the superior one. That hurts the team in ways more than you think. DON’T strive for the perfect project, because guess what, there’s no such thing. In fact, the more you make it “perfect” the more uglier it becomes. True story, I had spent the past year remaking an entire project BECAUSE of my blinded sight of perfection, and it took me all this time to finally realize that I needed to stop going for “perfect” and start calming down and going for “to the best of my abilities”. You’re gonna have strengths in some areas and weaknesses in others, that’s a fact.
That’s a fact that any person and/or team will come to realize.
But what really makes or breaks a project is the amount of “heart” that not only the leader, but the entire team puts into it. News flash: You’re not gonna get that heart if you abuse your team members and drag them through the dirt and you’re certainly not gonna achieve that if you just rush things and use the words “best of my abilities” as an excuse for “laziness”.
In the end, there WILL be someone who will see that love, despite its strengths and flaws, and that will still make this project a wonderful one in the eyes of many who look at it, whether it’s a game, a comic, a piece of art, whatever.
I’m not a perfect team leader or member, far from it, but I wish your “project leader” enlightenment….and for you to not having to go through not only the pain of being belittled, but the pain of forever being the shadow of your “superior best friend”, something that I both went through and subjected others to.
That alone is a rant in itself, but this one has gone on long enough, so I’ll end it here.
Spin-Out for the Odyssey 2 is literally my earliest memory of a video game (the bright colors and the smashy sound the cars made when they crashed are forever imprinted on my brain). Video games have been a part of my family–and my life–since I was born, which was during the same year as the North American Video Game Crash. The crash allowed even a family as poor as ours to own some early consoles, and playing games on them was often a family activity.
In my life, I’ve watched video games go from this to their current state, and have been playing them the entire time. I feel both humbled and very fortunate.
Fuck you I don’t care what you people say ocarina of time was my childhood.
Fuck…my first experience with a game, as clichéd as it sounds, was Super Mario Bros. However the actual game that always stuck by was some space exploration game that was on an old Windows 98 called ‘The Oddessy Tour’.
Then again there was always MegaMan Battle Network:
Stepdad had a playstation that he didn’t play. This and one other game was the only games I had til they bought more games for me.
Then I found out memory cards existed xD
“Pencil tests for Kubo and the Two Strings by Sandro Cleuzo used to resolve some of the design issues and for inspiration before starting the stop motion process.”
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
