Octonauts is alright. Mid tier.
Got offered redundancy yesterday. Not entirely unsurprising but also, having survived redundancy during Covid I thought I might survive it again. Bit weird though.
The reason I’m not posting this in Not Stoked is because I actually hate my job and was actively thinking about leaving anyway - the last 6 months have been horrible, stress levels through the roof all the time, a horrible work environment, constant unworkable deadlines, no progression left for me, and I’ve felt any energy or love for my job has just been sucked out of me. So, all in all this is probably a good thing in the sense that my hands been forced to do something I wanted to do anyway. I felt myself physically relax when they told me. And this way, at least I get some payment out of it.
Obviously the downside is I won’t have a job lol. Short term I’m fine thankfully, but ask me again in 6 months if I’m still feeling so positive…
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Get something lined up before you accept if you can.
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Sounds like @BvS has had the biggest stroke of luck ever! Good luck with finding a better suited job, I’d be stoked if that happened to me (providing I could afford the time off etc)
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Ideally I would but it’s not going to happen in time and tbh I could do with some time off before going straight into the next thing.
I’ve got a little bit of freelance stuff lined up which will help though
What do you do/want to do?
Crappy little alan keys too.
Crappy hardware in general. Not that IKEA was ever quality but it’s basically cardboard now
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Won’t make any difference structurally, and it’s going up against a wall so you’ll never see it . PVA wood glue is the best glue for that and a clamp to squash it back into place with the glue
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Graphic designer. Been working in the theatre industry the past 7 or so years but it’s time for a change, the stress and the pressures (particularly post-Covid) aren’t worth what I get out of it anymore.
I want to get excited about being a designer again and I think the best way to do that is to not do it for a little while.
I’ve just signed up to a video editing course as I think that could be a useful skill set, and it’s something different, might be fun
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You can just flip the shelf . You’ll never see the underside . Does mean you’ll have to take it all apart.
I’ve just come across an insta reel of Sewa Kroetkov doing a hardflip nosegrind nollie flip out and I think I’d prefer it if he didn’t do the nollie flip. Am I alone in this? Like, don’t over complicate things Sewa.
I’d rather not watch Sewa.
Fully with you on this, but I suppose it’s quite a personal opinion. Remember Keenan’s SSBSTS shove out at Radlands? There’s no way flipping into it could have made it any better.
I might have some freelance work if you can redraw technical diagrams?
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This. I’ve seen that IG reel and the hardflip is ugly. Nosegrind nollie flip would’ve been fine. At the risk of sounding “old man shouts at clouds” it’s a very just-because-you-can trick. Very Jamie Griffin
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The tv/drama industry would probably bite you’re arm off to have you , it’s absolutely full on completely inadequate and inexperienced crew at the moment who’ve come straight out of uni or done 1 assisting job and are a major hindrance because they have no practice experience or common sense .
If you’ve done theatre that long its a major bit of experience and film tv hours are not the same, they’re much more regular Mon-Friday and will pay 3 times the theatre rates .
If you’re interested I have a contact who’s an art director in the graphics dept for marvel stuff .
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Let me know if you need some pointers, I’m currently lecturing in video production alongside my motion design career.
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Absolutely, plus hardflips are usually horrible anyway.
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I really liked (and still do) hardflips the 90s way where its like an illusion flip. Vertical shove it. I don’t like the really horizontal modern ones.
Carroll’s opening line in modus has the perfect hardflip. It’s neither vertical or horizontal, somewhere in the middle. Definitely flips. Looks classy
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