the long term solution
Nov. 10th, 2005 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashThe long-term solution to Flash driving me crazy? Stop taking jobs that involve it. I thought this gig with American Greetings would involve less than it did, but so far it's been almost entirely Flash work. The last gig that drove me crazy mid-summer turned out to be almost entirely Flash crap too. I need the money, so I'll grit my teeth and somehow deal with the fact that Flash is utter shit and that there seems to be no other option, but I gotta resume trying to start that theoretical illustration career.
I just took one of the first steps in never taking another Flash job: I took almost all mentions of it out of my resume. I still list myself as being a Flash director for Spümcø a couple of times, but all of my gigs that were previously "flash animator"? Now they just say "animator". I will not take any new work involving Flash unless it pays a hell of a lot of money and has insurance. I will create elements that will go into Flash; that's fine. But once I've phased out this emoticons/winks stuff from my life and found other regular gigs, I'm going to delete Flash from my hard drive. And maybe someday down the line, I'll be able to animate for myself. Flash makes me cringe at the thought of any kind of animation for months after using it. Flash sucks every single iota of joy out of animation for me by making the process painful and awkward.
I want things that make me pissed-off and annoyed out of my life and I seem to keep letting Flash back in because of money reasons. And it never pays me enough for the amount of hate it causes in me.
I just took one of the first steps in never taking another Flash job: I took almost all mentions of it out of my resume. I still list myself as being a Flash director for Spümcø a couple of times, but all of my gigs that were previously "flash animator"? Now they just say "animator". I will not take any new work involving Flash unless it pays a hell of a lot of money and has insurance. I will create elements that will go into Flash; that's fine. But once I've phased out this emoticons/winks stuff from my life and found other regular gigs, I'm going to delete Flash from my hard drive. And maybe someday down the line, I'll be able to animate for myself. Flash makes me cringe at the thought of any kind of animation for months after using it. Flash sucks every single iota of joy out of animation for me by making the process painful and awkward.
I want things that make me pissed-off and annoyed out of my life and I seem to keep letting Flash back in because of money reasons. And it never pays me enough for the amount of hate it causes in me.