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Stop OVERTHINKING with Sophie Stübinger (Video Game Art Student)
#017 - Are you wondering what it's like to study video game art at university? Join Connor as he interviews Sophie Stübinger about all things creative.
We cover quite a few topics:
- Sophie's story to game art
- Inspirations that pioneered an interest in a painterly 3D style
- Tips for self-learners
- The value of building personal portfolios for your career and development
- Being purposeful with each creation
- Ensuring you continue learning whenever you sit down at your workstation
- Managing expectations
- Where a university course hits and misses the mark
- How to subvert expectations in visual art
- Building pieces inspired by or based upon other artist's work as a learning hack
- Transitioning from 2D to 3D art and what that's like
- Why Blender is Sophie's favourite software, and how awesome it is that it's a completely free program anyone could download and learn to create amazing works
- Pushing through procrastination
- Combating our tendencies to overthink everything
- Overcoming art block
- Incorporating social media into your creative life
- Dealing with its psychological side effects
- Keeping internally motivated and using feedback to find your blind spots.
- How discord and twitter are fostering incredibly close-knit communities for artists and game developers and how to leverage them for your development.
- Remembering that you're part of an artists cycle, where you're not as great as your idols, but are probably inspiring people yourself without realising it
- Finding good critics
- Managing mental health
- Taking breaks when you need them
- Pontificating on the current culture that doesn't yet talk about the links between mental health and creativity enough for the amount we all succumb to it
You can learn more about the community behind Create With Us Productions or read our newsletter for creatives here:
https://www.cwupcommunity.com
Join the community, hit subscribe, and keep creative!
You can find this episode's show notes at:
https://www.cwupcommunity.com/keepcreative/sophiestubinger
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By Create With Us Productions#017 - Are you wondering what it's like to study video game art at university? Join Connor as he interviews Sophie Stübinger about all things creative.
We cover quite a few topics:
- Sophie's story to game art
- Inspirations that pioneered an interest in a painterly 3D style
- Tips for self-learners
- The value of building personal portfolios for your career and development
- Being purposeful with each creation
- Ensuring you continue learning whenever you sit down at your workstation
- Managing expectations
- Where a university course hits and misses the mark
- How to subvert expectations in visual art
- Building pieces inspired by or based upon other artist's work as a learning hack
- Transitioning from 2D to 3D art and what that's like
- Why Blender is Sophie's favourite software, and how awesome it is that it's a completely free program anyone could download and learn to create amazing works
- Pushing through procrastination
- Combating our tendencies to overthink everything
- Overcoming art block
- Incorporating social media into your creative life
- Dealing with its psychological side effects
- Keeping internally motivated and using feedback to find your blind spots.
- How discord and twitter are fostering incredibly close-knit communities for artists and game developers and how to leverage them for your development.
- Remembering that you're part of an artists cycle, where you're not as great as your idols, but are probably inspiring people yourself without realising it
- Finding good critics
- Managing mental health
- Taking breaks when you need them
- Pontificating on the current culture that doesn't yet talk about the links between mental health and creativity enough for the amount we all succumb to it
You can learn more about the community behind Create With Us Productions or read our newsletter for creatives here:
https://www.cwupcommunity.com
Join the community, hit subscribe, and keep creative!
You can find this episode's show notes at:
https://www.cwupcommunity.com/keepcreative/sophiestubinger