Topic: Project Fatigue

This is a subject that's been going around the office lately and it is something that I'm beginning to feel after being the sole 3D artist on a project for 5 months making very similar middle eastern style buildings for a game.

I've also felt it when trying to work on my own projects in the free time I have available (whether it be a lunch break or when I'm at home)

As you work on a project, eventually you get tired of it and it may even become a chore to get through. you may even begin to work slower and feel generally less creative with it. My question is, does this effect you all often? And if so, what do you do to combat it?

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Pick something random to get good at. Add a hobby to your life. You're most likely just low on general life excitement, so figure out some way to add feelings of surprise and pride and creative satisfaction to your days. That feeling makes everything else better.

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3 (edited by Herc 2015-02-24 15:02:52)

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Disclaimer: if you dislike the tone of a post I make, re-read it in a North/East London accent until it sounds sufficiently playful smile

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I have found that being able to exercise in some way helps my mood greatly when it comes to working on projects. For me, getting out and riding my bike or doing something active gets my brain going in a different way, and sometimes gives some distance between the project and myself.

God loves you!

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I keep reading the thread title and wondering what a weird name for a project Fatigue is. tongue

I get tired of projects too. I tend to be quite obsessive and 'all in' about both projects and moods so burn out after a while. I've not discovered a way around this though so these thoughts are really helpful.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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not long to go now...

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Local DJ's used to have a reporter from The Star as a guest. She made the observation that no matter how beautiful or intelligent someone was, there probably at that moment was a person who was tired of fucking them.

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Sure, I'll be nicer next time I want to express distaste about an offhanded misogynistic, irrelevant comment that amounts to "women are just beautiful objects with which guys get their dick wet" in a thread about creative work.

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Your point is valid, my thing is more the brevity and curtness.

Disagreement is fine — within reason — so long as it's contextualized. Otherwise it's just people sniping at each other. Your reply just there is way more valuable as an item of distaste than "garbage post" ever could be.

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*shrug*

How other people see the world isn't my department, just how they treat each other while they're here.

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So if a bunch of Klansmen rolled in making offhanded comments about how much they hate black people, they would be fine as long as they're nice to everyone here? How would that be different?

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Well it's nice to know this forum still has the ability to go from zero to holy shit in under 8 posts.

I guess we'll always have that.

ZangrethorDigital.ca

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To avoid making this topic potentially go in a further sourer direction, I've found a lot of comments here to be rather insightful! It's good to get a fresh perspective to a problem.

I do have some good news though, I did manage to finish that project for work on friday! Huzzah! Not sure what the next big (or several) work projects will be for me but I'll have a bunch of techniques to potentially try out if I ever start to feel fatigued by a project, whether for work or personal.

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Awesome! I tend to just get fatigued on personal projects; I move onto something else and come back after a couple months. Gives me a fresh set of eyes and ears for it too, which is great.

For work I do wedding films. I get fatigued in general at the end of the season but once I start editing, a project generally only lasts a week to a week and a half before I move on to the next.

Boter, formerly of TF.N as Boter and DarthArjuna. I like making movies and playing games, in one order or another.

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Disclaimer: if you dislike the tone of a post I make, re-read it in a North/East London accent until it sounds sufficiently playful smile

20 (edited by BigDamnArtist 2015-03-07 15:36:30)

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Not to play admin here. But if you guys wanna keep this line going, probably best to move it to a new thread. This one's been hijacked and sidetracked enough.

ZangrethorDigital.ca

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Herc, can I pay you to follow me around the Internet and clean up after me?

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