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You ARE capable of loving someone, but there is work to be done. I highly, highly, recommend reading this book:
https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-You-Understanding-Resilience/dp/1250223180
The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome is the best I've found, though it's geared more towards the parents of an Asperger's child. It's also the only resource I've seen that explains Asperger's in females and there are considerable differences between the characteristics in females and males. Relevant to me because my mate is also Asperger's.
You can also use Wikipedia's ability to view earlier versions. Look back about 8 years.
I sympathize with you. A great book that I read around 24-25 that really change my perspective is The Defining Decade by Meg Jay. I showed it to two of my friends and they loved it and one of them read it twice in a year. It gave me a great perspective. You still have neuroplasticity in your 20s and can cement good habits now that will last. Whereas it’s much more difficult for your brain to alter its habits and patterns later in life. Here’s the Amazon link, I highly recommend: https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Decade-Your-Twenties-Matter/dp/0446561754
It’s also relatively short. I also recommend crime and punishment like someone else in this thread but that is a beast of a book. The Defining Decade is like 200 pages and easy reading.
I found a book called The Defining Decade to be hugely motivating, practical, and life affirming when I read it in my senior year in college. I hope it inspires you the way it inspired me :)
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https://www.amazon.ca/Defining-Decade-Your-Twenties-Matter/dp/0446561754
A good generalist is really just a specialist in many, varied areas. For example, John von Neumann considered himself a generalist, and he's probably the greatest generalist of all time. He made important discoveries and contributions in statistics, logic, geometry, game theory, quantum physics, fluid dynamics, computing, programming, economics and so on.
Someone who's just dabbled at a bunch of different things but isn't good at any of them is what's called a jack of all trades (what was once a derogatory term). They aren't a generalist because they aren't good at anything.
Ideally, early in your career, you specialize in something. As you become more experienced, you pick up more expertise and specializations and morph into a generalist. But a lot of people don't have the mental plasticity and focus to become a generalist, so they stick to the few things they know well and remain specialists.
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World is a good book on the topic.
Got a book recommendation for you: https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Decade-Your-Twenties-Matter/dp/0446561754 from your post it sounds like this might help you clarify your thinking. I hope you find a path you’re happy with.
Please do yourself a favor and read this book. I guarantee it will change your perspective about being a generalist.
Gonna go ahead and plug a book, The Defining Decade by Meg Jay. It's filled with case studies of people in their mid-twenties figuring out their careers, romantic lives, and mental well-being. I'm 25 and often panic about career direction and purpose. I feel this book gives a very informed look on how the sky isn't truly falling. It's a quick 200 pages and I walked away feeling a whole lot more confident about my position.
Please note, there is a Christian part at the 41 minute mark. The speaker clearly announces this in the video as well. The rest of the video is based on book by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey called "What Happened To You"
This video has stuck with me since I first watched it a few weeks ago.
The days of being a narrow specialist are past. The future is in being a generalist -- competence or even specialization in a wide range of areas. David Epstein's Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World is worth the read. For instance, consider why companies are how preferring a team of full stack engineers over separate back end and front end specialists. It's all about flexibility and adaptability in a fast changing landscape. A key feature of being a generalist is effectively using experience and concepts from learning past competencies to quickly learn new competencies.
The phrase "jack of all trades, master of none" is more typically used as a derogatory term, referring to someone who's dabbled in a bunch of things but never gained competence at any of them. You never really want to be described as a "jack of all trades."
My daughter is SPD, I learned a lot from her OT but, there is a book that might help: Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0060932929/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_BAohFb8GCPXHP
Go to Amazon and look at this book. You can look inside if you dont want to buy it, scroll down and you'll see a list.....welcome to the club.
When it comes to dreams, those will come of their own accord when they choose to at the appropriate time. Since you've been in Jungian analysis for so long, you are probably already doing this, but I would strongly encourage you to engage in Active Imagination sessions. An excellent guide on just how to do this can be found here:
https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Work-Dreams-Imagination-Personal/dp/0062504312
Deep shadow work, my friend. Integration is key and this experience, when integrated, will become a strength. You might enjoy this book: https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Work-Dreams-Imagination-Personal/dp/0062504312
first of all, you are insanely talented. animating characters with realistic proportions like these is super hard so great job!!
I do think some of your walkcycles still look a little rough though. If you would like to learn to improve them, consider buying the Animator's Survival Kit: https://www.amazon.nl/Animators-Survival-Kit-Principles-Classical/dp/086547897X/ref=asc_df_086547897X/?tag=nlshogostdde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=430671742064&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7488386459259133356&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1010659&hvtargid=pla-395340047230&psc=1
Good luck with future projects!!
Robert Johnson's book is probably the best intro: https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Work-Dreams-Imagination-Personal/dp/0062504312/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8UHRMZD5E6Q9&dchild=1&keywords=robert+johnson+inner+work&qid=1612051682&s=books&sprefix=robert+johnson+inner+%2Caps%2C267&sr=1-1. You could also look into automatic writing as well.
If you're already painting in photoshop, thats a great place to start animating!
Here's a great tutorial on workflow tips for animating in Photoshop, by a really talented animator named Alex Grigg: https://vimeo.com/80851591
I'd say play around for a bit just making things move around before getting into more technical animation training. Approach it like you would draw flip books in the corner of a textbook. Just make things move around and experiment. Once you've played around a bit, and gotten a feel for using photoshop to work across a timeline, I suggest checking out a book that is one of the standard textbooks for classical animation, "The Animator's Survival Toolkit," by Richard Williams (he was the animation director on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"). You can find it on amazon here:
Hope this helps!
Your arms are moving on some nice arcs. But your legs are really poppy towards the end of the loop. The head seems to move at the same rate of the arms and it’s making it feel robotic. When humans run there’s an up and down motion of the whole body. Like so: walk cycle If you’ve don’t have the Animators Survial Kit by Richard Willams, I highly recommend buying it in some form. Amazon link to paperbackIt has all sorts of useful information.
overall its a solid start. you just need to brush up on the 12 principles of animation.
hope it helps!
The sentence, "Jack of all trades, but no master," followed by something about focusing on language stood out to me. That sentence is, language-wise, really awkward. The first half is like a title or adjective phrase, but the contrasting self half is incomplete or something. "... no master trade?" "... no master skill?" "... no master*y*?"
Anyway, there's a difference between a so-called jack of all trades, a generalist, and a specialist. A specialist is, of course, someone who's highly skilled in some particular domain.
Many people are unaware that the phrase "jack of all trades, master of none" has mostly been used throughout its history with negative connotation. It's usedd to refer to a person who's dabbled at a bunch of things but never gained real competence at anything -- someone who has no real skills. Think of someone who's started to take guitar lessons but stops practicing, does a few programming tutorials but never advances beyond that, or take some college classes and drop out. This is someone with no follow through. They end up just being novices at a bunch of things but not having even basic competence at anything. This is where many people find themselves, and they often overestimate their skills.
A generalist is someone who's competent or skilled in a variety of areas. In today's fast paced technology driven world, you should strive to be a generalist so that you can be adaptable and flexible to whatever circumstances you find yourself in. I recommend reading David Epstein's Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. It's not something you can become overnight. A generalist is somewhat of a specialist in multiple domains.
So you should try to honestly evaluate what skills you do have and what you might be able to start specializing in quickly.
This really helped me when i learned animation.
I guess the only tip I can give from my recent SFM experience is to have some sort of anticipation before the character does an action. It's little stuff like that which makes the animation better. I also recommend getting this book
Hope this helps.
the great bible about animation: The Animator's Survival Kit http://www.amazon.com/Animators-Survival-Kit-Principles-Classical/dp/086547897X
buy it, read it, praise it༼ つ ◕_◕༽つ
edit: or borrow it from the library
Extroverts aren't better than introverts although they may have certain advantages when socializing and dating. Have you heard of this book? The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World
My pleasure. I saw an OT after my autism diagnosis to look at things that may help my sensory processing problems but a lot of it is trial and error. Everyone is different but all my (adult) autistic friends find having a soft toy helps and I have a soft blanket to stroke as well, one's into chewelry and most of us stroke pets to calm down and talk to them. It all depends if your friend is a sensory seeker or avoider. I'm generally an avoider but there are some fragrancies I really like but most I hate so I'm both a sensory seeker and avoider when it comes to smells. Rocking, humming, lightly thumping my chest, flapping, immersing my face in cold water and other forms of stimming calm me down the most. The OT recommended this book
Definitely persuasive, but it shows that there's probably a local maximum of productivity that can be achieved by moving people out of school earlier and more specialized in their jobs. If we were engaged in a gradient descent hill-climbing algo optimizing for productivity, we might go along with his prescriptions.
However, I have a pretty firm belief that a broader range of generalist knowledge, when combined in unique combinations and permutations, often results in more new things created than hyper-specialization will. This line of thinking is represented in the book Range (https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214484). I think university/general education helps us make a small selection of connections that have incredibly high ROI. Following the hill-climbing-algo example, generalist permutations of knowledge have the same effect as "random restart", which gives us a higher chance of finding a GLOBAL Maximum in productivity.
Definitely persuasive, but it shows that there's probably a local maximum of productivity that can be achieved by moving people out of school earlier and more specialized in their jobs. If we were engaged in a gradient descent hill-climbing algo optimizing for productivity, we might go along with his prescriptions.
However, I have a pretty firm belief that a broader range of generalist knowledge, when combined in unique combinations and permutations, often results in more new things created than hyper-specialization will. This line of thinking is represented in the book Range (https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214484). I think university/general education helps us make a small selection of connections that have incredibly high ROI. Following the hill-climbing-algo example, generalist permutations of knowledge have the same effect as "random restart", which gives us a higher chance of finding a GLOBAL Maximum in productivity.
The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome is by far the best I've found. It's not short, but it's a fairly easy read.
this book has very good and in depth lessons on walk and run cycles, as well as other animation principles