From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
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The importance of failure - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
The importance of failure
- [Instructor] Usually at the end of my training courses, I have a little, you know, final message about the art of whatever we were talking about or bonus tips or whatever. And as I thought about what I could talk about here at the end of our look at visual effects, I couldn't stop thinking about something that I kept coming back to, and that's how important it is to fail and to not be scared of failing. When you first start making visual effects, you're going to feel really proud of yourself, but what you make is going to look objectively awful. No matter how good of an artist you are it takes a long time to reproduce digital effects in the way that they might exist in the real world. for the Assurance Visual Effects and I just cringe. Likewise, the best thing that you could do right now will hopefully embarrass you in the near future. But you can't be scared of that. You have to keep trying and building and making this course with you. But if you're afraid of failure, none of this…
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