Maybe the honest truth is that they walk away because they don't believe in the project.
I for one welcome this opportunity. Nate, if you can tell us what a movie is, I know I would be grateful. I've spent my life studying these things and I thought I knew, but maybe I don't. Perhaps your years of paying close attention uncovered something profound. It's comforting knowing you are here to protect the indie community from its own misunderstanding and stupidity.
I'm sorry, Nate, but I find this entire thread a little insulting and very condescending. Each of us has a dream. Each of us is on a journey. For you to suggest that yours is more important than anyone else's is beneath the Nate North I thought I knew. You seem angry at the world because you can't find anyone who wants to work with you. I can't tell you why that is but I'll bet you already know. Don't torture yourself. Just accept the way things are. Be one with yourself.
How can one believe or not believe in things they know very little about? I had this issue in many other areas of life.
A conversation that occurred amongst Save Point members a year ago -
Why are we working with blender Nate?
To see if it fits our needs.
You mean we might throw away all this work, and it's for nothing?
Yep.
You're a bad leader, we should only be doing work that counts.
This does count, you just don't see the big picture.
Well, explain why we should spend a month working on software we might never use.
Because this goal is complex and our demands on software are complex, and none of us have any idea how effectively a system will work out in practice until we put in the actual research work to test and analyze how each available option will fit our workflow and goals.
So we have to waste time thinking and learning, and just throw stuff away?
yes, in pursuit of a winning formula, we have to spend unrecoverable time fully testing different paths, some of which will be losses.
I quit. That guy over there is just filming with a cell phone, he knows what he's doing. (points at guy doing a 10c tic tok dance in front of an Iphone)
Ok, well, I'll plan and iterate, and you run and gun, and we'll circle back and compare notes later.
The person I had that conversation with is still posting tracks on soundcloud, trying to get 30 views on a good month.
I installed and tested over 40 different software solutions, and lost more than 6 months of my life installing, learning, and then discarding programs like DAZ studio, Animaker, Character creator, Iclone, cartoon animator 4, toonboom harmony, vray, max, maya, blender, and on and on.
My research completed and I made a decision. Now I'm literally producing CG output faster than anyone I've ever encountered. But that was the plan, and they would have understood that if they weren't in such a hurry to make a snap judgement.
Classic tortise and hare.
As far as being insulted and condescended to. It happens to me constantly, and no one cares. I've talked to people that came on this forum, and they've explained to me that they are the real thing, and I'm not in their league, and I go to their website, and it's a 7 person team, and they made one after effects video in 3 years. That one video isn't at the quality level of even an average video from the 110 that I made this year by myself. People are constantly arrogant and stupid, and you try to take the high road, but sometimes you loose patience and give out a taste of the medicine you're being forced to swallow. Think that's a made up example? I'll send you the link. I just don't want to bash anyone by name here.
More than 70% of my income and time goes into pushing my film technology, and I've endured a decade of people at 1% on both metrics trying to pull rank on me. Maybe that's not quite the backpedal you expected. For what it's worth I think a lot of us feel insulted, by each other at times, and by the world at large. See how you feel about people calling you a whiner once you've sacrificed everything for the thing you love and a millennial tries to elbow you out of the way to make room for their one hour a week level of dedication.