Happened couple of times with me and coding I can code other stuff easily, but I got stuck on the major task I had going for a long time Even if the problem is dead simple Brain really governs what you can or cannot do
Another form could be just not being creative enough even tho a month ago you were super creative. In this case, he has every character planned out just completely forgot.
@@denkyuheddo1355"Just not creative enogh' isn't adequately descriptive. There's a lot of things that can affect one's creativity. And there's almost always a cause to losing inspiration. It is up to the artist to develop ways to constantly refill and rejuvinate their own creative juices
@@wisgarus Yea what about it not being descriptive enough? Like what did you want me to say? if someone wanted me to specify I would've. Forgetting how to do something also isn't adequately descriptive, honestly your first sentence is not needed
That’s so cool that the director realized he was overworked and needed to take a break, what a compassionate observation. I wish more bosses understood this and supported their co-workers in a way that shows they care.
Pixar’s team seems to be constructed (or at least was) of very passionate people who understood the craft. And they valued the art more than the bottom dollar. So yeah it is very cool he was cool/ wise enough to know it would be worth more to let this talented artist rest a short while to get back to his old self.
This happens waaaaaay more often than most people outside of creative industries realize. I had this happen to me in art college. I've seen incredible designers lose their chops essentially overnight. It's something higher ups either don't understand, or don't care to.
I got an art block on my final project in college and my work ended up terrible and I could only get a pass at most when earlier in the year I was getting merits and was looking towards a distinction.
Gosh it literally happened to me after years of experience! The guilt I felt for being useless was immeasurable. It slowly went away on its own after I gave up trying to force myself to work. So this thing is called an Art Block?
Actually, it's called burn out though burn out can lead to art block. I met this same animator myself 10 years ago and he told me the same story, and he called it burn out.
This happens a lot with autism, literally getting overloaded and pounded with work/tasks, your brain just cooks itself and you forget how to do things you KNOW how to do. The burnout thing explains a lot
Ur brain is literally telling u to stop sometimes if u fight against it I’ve seen people seize or have strokes because the nerves in their hands are constantly working same with the brain it’s tiresome
@@abiliv-lf9tz Artblocks can happen when you're rested, with a good routine and all. From the description it sounded more like a Burnout than an artblock. Or maybe it was an artblock caused by a burnout idk
I feel like this explains the situation poorly. He didn't "forget" it's like saying you forgot how to talk, like your mind blipped for a long period of time on how to say words. That obviously doesn't happen. He had a hard time coming up with good ideas and when it comes to top tier animation, it's the most important thing. If the idea sucks it all sucks but on a technical level it was probably still amazing. He was just being self deprecating when he said he forgot. So more accurately his mind was not working at an efficient capacity to allow him to think at all because he was way too stressed. It's just stress.
Yeah it’s kinda like forgetting how something functions. I’ve had music blocks many times where the instrument just stops making sense in how it works or my fingers just lose all memory of how to do what they once could do.
I think it was prob more of a technical thing. Animation is both technical and artistic- its kinda similar to acting. I also believe animators are usually not the ones that decide on the ideas, rather their job is mostly to execute the performance in a scene. I think he might've literally had a hard time making his shots look good and nothing was working. Like how sometimes artists find that they hate everything they try to draw and feel stuck. But yeah sounds like his mind was stressed and needed rest
I mean, I've had times where I literally just forget how to draw and it's not something new or anything. I'm in my comfort zone, the drawing has been going smoothly, and I just suddenly don't know how to draw anymore lol.
@@UncookedSpaghetti happens to me all the time one month ill draw every day and its good the next few months i struggle to draw a stick figure not literally a stick figure but you get the gist
@omoddulus4933 It could have been that he forgot. It happens in baseball pretty frequently where a player forgets how to throw the ball. It’s called the yips and let me tell you it isn’t “technically” good and just being self deprecating. Some recover and others lose everything over something they’ve done hundreds of thousands of times.
Its like in spiderman 2 when peter is so stressed and overworked from being spiderman that he loses his powers, then when he takes a break and betters himself he can use his powers again.
Pixar taking care of their employees when they're down is always the sticking point I've heard about. They gave people repetitive stress injuries getting Toy Story 2 out and said never again
This really reminds me of that time in "Kiki's delivery service" when kiki forgot how to fly on her broom because of how burnt out and overworked she was
Dude I can actually feel that though like when you lose an ability and you get all the stress and the anxiety and you overthink it and you don’t know how to un-overthink it because that’s just how the brain works
It reminds me of the movie "Kiki's Delivery Service" where she suddenly lost her ability to fly then she met a painter in the woods that taught her to 'breathe' and take a break. Overworking can lose your passion.
Just wait until somatization occurs. My brain creates symptoms to get me to leave work. When I ignore them, the symptoms shift from feeling faint/weak in my body, to resembling a heart attack. Of course physically I was always fine. But oh yeah, vision gets messed with too. Someone I met in the psych ward has seizures based on this pathology.
Hmm nah, calling BS. Unmotivated sure, lower quality maybe, but completely forgetting how to do your skilled trade you perfected over years?, it’s like Superman forgetting how to fly, no.
I'm a 3D animator, it happened to me too, but I told my compagny right when it started to happen. They understood and were very nice, I left my job because it was the beginning of a huge burnout (two years ago and I'm still having consequences now.) They told me that they would still re employ me when I'll feel better. But the truth is I don't know if I can animate for the rest of my life. It's a wonderful job, I had amazing years, but the pressure, my gosh it's something they don't prepare you for in school. It's a passion-job, the pressure and the want to do better and better and better burns us out so quickly and you don't see it comming. I was an high masking autistic-adhd person too, that didn't help and now I'm on a ton of medication to only barely fonction day by bay. I'm setting animation aside for an indeterminate time and I'm focusing on a chill artisanal side buisness instead.
Bro I sware I could’ve typed this. You just exactly explained my situation like every detail is exactly the same except I’m a 3D modeler. I just graduated computer animation bachelors program and I can’t even bring myself to do it at all I feel like I suck and I’ve just lost my passion. I’ve set it aside to start a small business as well. Selling clothes, not made by me, but bought and resold type of thing. (I buy clothes unusually cheap lol)
I think this story blew up so much because we can all relate to some capacity. I can’t put it into words, but I 100% believe to and relate to what he’s saying.
I can think back to a certain boss I had and wish he had been this understanding. And all I did was make one mistake because I asked to take on a bit more work and got overloaded immediately. I really hope the boss from the video is still in charge somewhere and still treating his employees like humans.
If you run a company focused on making art, you need to understand the problems artists may face (burnot, art block, impostor syndrome...) Help them with that will boost their productivity.
I recently just got out of artblock and this is exactly what it’s like You firstly don’t have any motivation/energy/inspiration to draw but if you do try you first find out that it doesn’t bring you any joy, it feels like a chore and then you notice that you can’t draw anymore, like one moment you could and the other you can’t, the first time I went through it I was confused and then sad thinking I could never draw again like I genuinely lost the ability to draw but after hearing what Art block is although still sad when it happened I knew when the time comes I can draw again, I won’t loose it forever so I work on stuff that is stressing me in my life and firstly remove or work on the tiny things and work myself up to things I find harder to work on that stress me until I’m out of artblock
Im a programmer with that issue. I sat down 3 weeks ago to make a project ive had thought about for a bit, now that school is done for a bit. Never really even got started i just forgot how to problem solve
Its crazy that he got so stressed from constant work that his brain literally gave him Temporary Amnesia about how to perform his job... AND THAT STRESSED HIM OUT EVEN MORE!
He's like the Real Life Tobey Maguire Spider-Man, like in Spider-Man 2 he lost his Powers due to a Mid Life Crisis. Now he's got it back, and he's still keeping a Good Job.
And that was Pixar before this new era: they even scrapped a lot of films because they didn't liked the end result, but today to just grab some money, they they release it as it is.
His experience is extremely real. Sometimes you’re on top of your game, making things that completely shock yourself. Sometimes you completely forget how to art.
sports players know this feeling. those days when u come to play a basketball game and nothing will go in even the easy shots and you’re just like how did i forget how to play overnight…
The same thing happened to me the second i graduated from art school. i completely lost all motivation and didnt want to even look at my sketchbook. Finally getting better and it feels sooo good lol
His brain: ima just, take a break, ok?
Emotions:AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGHGVGFFDYYC7HFAHHHHHHH
NO SHOT WE MEET AGAIN.
JESUS CHRIST!
@@Theonlysanevalentinofan WHAT HOW
Happened couple of times with me and coding
I can code other stuff easily, but I got stuck on the major task I had going for a long time
Even if the problem is dead simple
Brain really governs what you can or cannot do
@@Theonlysanevalentinofan y'all two should go get a coffee, you're both meant for each other or something 😂
Basically what an art block is
Yes, that's what's stated in the video lol
Another form could be just not being creative enough even tho a month ago you were super creative.
In this case, he has every character planned out just completely forgot.
@@sonickhableyeah I realised after I posted the comment lol
@@denkyuheddo1355"Just not creative enogh' isn't adequately descriptive.
There's a lot of things that can affect one's creativity. And there's almost always a cause to losing inspiration.
It is up to the artist to develop ways to constantly refill and rejuvinate their own creative juices
@@wisgarus
Yea what about it not being descriptive enough?
Like what did you want me to say? if someone wanted me to specify I would've.
Forgetting how to do something also isn't adequately descriptive, honestly your first sentence is not needed
That’s so cool that the director realized he was overworked and needed to take a break, what a compassionate observation. I wish more bosses understood this and supported their co-workers in a way that shows they care.
I honestly feel very bad for him.
Pixar’s team seems to be constructed (or at least was) of very passionate people who understood the craft. And they valued the art more than the bottom dollar. So yeah it is very cool he was cool/ wise enough to know it would be worth more to let this talented artist rest a short while to get back to his old self.
@@1chaka”at least was” lmfao 💀
Pixar today would have fired him. They let him be because they were swimming in cash and they could take a hit on productivity.
same here
Mappa better take some notes 💀
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nah, they stop working when they dead
Spider-Man did take a break when he lost his powers.
Superpower-Block is such an interesting concept.
Truly.
He actually lost his powers a bunch of times in the comics. Even had a story arc for it where he was still being Spider-man without his powers.
he lost them because forgot why he was Spider-Man which kind of correlates.
It's like what happened to Kiki in Kiki's Delivery Service
In short: he got an artistic block
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Yes the video says that
@@bonkdonk297yuh that's why bro said "in short" cuz the video took so damn long to get to the point
@@donuted_ace it took like 30 seconds, the Internet has rotted your brain if you need a summary for a summary length video
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That would be terrifying! His whole career depends on his ability to animate.
This happens waaaaaay more often than most people outside of creative industries realize. I had this happen to me in art college. I've seen incredible designers lose their chops essentially overnight. It's something higher ups either don't understand, or don't care to.
@@liragomez1312 oh man I’m so sorry! I hope I don’t have to face a situation like that…
I got an art block on my final project in college and my work ended up terrible and I could only get a pass at most when earlier in the year I was getting merits and was looking towards a distinction.
@@liragomez1312the same thing happens with me and coding
Sometimes for weeks or even months
I can still code other stuff but not the necessary stuff
And truckers entire careers depends on their ability to drive
Pixar Director: ☕🗿 take a break my man
Disney Director: ☕💀 take a break......but permanently
Mappa director 💀
@@bgsaxelnator
A. Work
B. Work
C. Work
D. Answer above is Correct 💀
or promoted to viewer.
@@daggerfreak474 Pretty much
nah, this is how disney minus was created
Feels like that time i forgot how to sit down.
How did you remember? 🎤
how
@@xofi. It's a Family Guy reference.
I forgor how to swallow one time as a kid.
I forgot how to talk for a few seconds once💀
Gosh it literally happened to me after years of experience! The guilt I felt for being useless was immeasurable. It slowly went away on its own after I gave up trying to force myself to work. So this thing is called an Art Block?
Yes
Actually, it's called burn out though burn out can lead to art block. I met this same animator myself 10 years ago and he told me the same story, and he called it burn out.
Burn out or skill regression, both very common and normal things to go thru during a time of rapid improvement! :)
This happens a lot with autism, literally getting overloaded and pounded with work/tasks, your brain just cooks itself and you forget how to do things you KNOW how to do. The burnout thing explains a lot
Ur brain is literally telling u to stop sometimes if u fight against it I’ve seen people seize or have strokes because the nerves in their hands are constantly working same with the brain it’s tiresome
Brain: We're overworked. We need to take appropriate steps to address this.
Brain's course of action: "Cannot animate no more forgor 💀"
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Money cash turn.
The name of this is ✨️BURNOUT✨️
And art block
I think
*burnout
@@abiliv-lf9tz Yep, artblock is a way of burnout
@@Darkeypoo Legends 🚗
@@abiliv-lf9tz Artblocks can happen when you're rested, with a good routine and all. From the description it sounded more like a Burnout than an artblock. Or maybe it was an artblock caused by a burnout idk
Thanks for not using the Discord notification sound in the middle of this one, I know that took restraint.
I was wondering why this was tolerable lmao😂
I feel like this explains the situation poorly. He didn't "forget" it's like saying you forgot how to talk, like your mind blipped for a long period of time on how to say words. That obviously doesn't happen. He had a hard time coming up with good ideas and when it comes to top tier animation, it's the most important thing. If the idea sucks it all sucks but on a technical level it was probably still amazing. He was just being self deprecating when he said he forgot.
So more accurately his mind was not working at an efficient capacity to allow him to think at all because he was way too stressed. It's just stress.
Yeah it’s kinda like forgetting how something functions. I’ve had music blocks many times where the instrument just stops making sense in how it works or my fingers just lose all memory of how to do what they once could do.
I think it was prob more of a technical thing. Animation is both technical and artistic- its kinda similar to acting. I also believe animators are usually not the ones that decide on the ideas, rather their job is mostly to execute the performance in a scene. I think he might've literally had a hard time making his shots look good and nothing was working. Like how sometimes artists find that they hate everything they try to draw and feel stuck. But yeah sounds like his mind was stressed and needed rest
I mean, I've had times where I literally just forget how to draw and it's not something new or anything. I'm in my comfort zone, the drawing has been going smoothly, and I just suddenly don't know how to draw anymore lol.
@@UncookedSpaghetti happens to me all the time one month ill draw every day and its good the next few months i struggle to draw a stick figure not literally a stick figure but you get the gist
@omoddulus4933 It could have been that he forgot. It happens in baseball pretty frequently where a player forgets how to throw the ball. It’s called the yips and let me tell you it isn’t “technically” good and just being self deprecating. Some recover and others lose everything over something they’ve done hundreds of thousands of times.
The rare moment of pixar actually treating a worker as a human
Remember, creativity is made with motivation.
Its like in spiderman 2 when peter is so stressed and overworked from being spiderman that he loses his powers, then when he takes a break and betters himself he can use his powers again.
Having an art/animation block while working for a huge animation company has got to be the scariest things ever
imagine having a boss saying "your overworked. relax" me neither
Pixar taking care of their employees when they're down is always the sticking point I've heard about. They gave people repetitive stress injuries getting Toy Story 2 out and said never again
Mappa: "he is getting underworked wdym"
This really reminds me of that time in "Kiki's delivery service" when kiki forgot how to fly on her broom because of how burnt out and overworked she was
I WAS GONNA SAY THIS!! Def one of my favorite movies
When Disney Pixars weren't hungry for money:
Dude I can actually feel that though like when you lose an ability and you get all the stress and the anxiety and you overthink it and you don’t know how to un-overthink it because that’s just how the brain works
It's like that SpongeBob episode when he forgot how to make a Krabby Patty 😮
That’s actually a really good example of burnout lol
@@CrystalRose1111more like you make a mistake once and it stresses you out so bad you forget how to do your job correctly.
It reminds me of the movie "Kiki's Delivery Service" where she suddenly lost her ability to fly then she met a painter in the woods that taught her to 'breathe' and take a break. Overworking can lose your passion.
Art block is just your brain going "oh you ain't gonna take a break? I'll take one for you."
Just wait until somatization occurs. My brain creates symptoms to get me to leave work. When I ignore them, the symptoms shift from feeling faint/weak in my body, to resembling a heart attack. Of course physically I was always fine. But oh yeah, vision gets messed with too.
Someone I met in the psych ward has seizures based on this pathology.
his quote has meme potential "i just cant animate, i just dont understand whats wrong with me" would be a great opener for funny npc glitching videos
As an animator I can understand
Hmm nah, calling BS. Unmotivated sure, lower quality maybe, but completely forgetting how to do your skilled trade you perfected over years?, it’s like Superman forgetting how to fly, no.
@@danabney4433 😂👎
@@danabney4433dudee burnout exists it can happen in many ways it's a real thing search it up I have experienced it but not in art
Wish people today realized animators need a break and are not at their best when overworked. It seems today people have forgotten this.
I'm a 3D animator, it happened to me too, but I told my compagny right when it started to happen. They understood and were very nice, I left my job because it was the beginning of a huge burnout (two years ago and I'm still having consequences now.) They told me that they would still re employ me when I'll feel better. But the truth is I don't know if I can animate for the rest of my life. It's a wonderful job, I had amazing years, but the pressure, my gosh it's something they don't prepare you for in school. It's a passion-job, the pressure and the want to do better and better and better burns us out so quickly and you don't see it comming. I was an high masking autistic-adhd person too, that didn't help and now I'm on a ton of medication to only barely fonction day by bay. I'm setting animation aside for an indeterminate time and I'm focusing on a chill artisanal side buisness instead.
Bro I sware I could’ve typed this. You just exactly explained my situation like every detail is exactly the same except I’m a 3D modeler. I just graduated computer animation bachelors program and I can’t even bring myself to do it at all I feel like I suck and I’ve just lost my passion. I’ve set it aside to start a small business as well. Selling clothes, not made by me, but bought and resold type of thing. (I buy clothes unusually cheap lol)
but if u really enjoy it then do it
Bro his boss is a real one for not being an ass and helping the dude out
Meanwhile mappa animators: can't relate buddy
they be like: _so_ _,_ _you_ _have_ _chosen_ _never_ _to_ _see_ _your_ _family_ _again_ _?"_
Bruh Mappa just took the souls of its animators
As an artist I immediately thought “Oh it was just artist block. He was fine. Just needed a break”
Now that is a true boss for helping his employees
The plot of Kiki ghibli's movie
Bro’s gotta remember that your brains and muscle too
This this happening to every GTA 6 worker
It's weirdly reassuring to realize that this is a universal experience
I think this story blew up so much because we can all relate to some capacity. I can’t put it into words, but I 100% believe to and relate to what he’s saying.
I can think back to a certain boss I had and wish he had been this understanding. And all I did was make one mistake because I asked to take on a bit more work and got overloaded immediately. I really hope the boss from the video is still in charge somewhere and still treating his employees like humans.
Hiding it is exactly what I would do tbh 😂
My brain is not braining
This is like that scene in Kiki’s Delivery Service
Something like this happened to me as well. In the middle of a fight I forgot how to dodge and had to look at the controls
That's great I hope Pixar is still like that today.
Not disgust looking more sassy 💀
this is how I feel rn... jealous of the artists who can turn their stress into an emotional piece
Bro lucky he wasn’t working for mappa 💀
Dude not you using ai images why bro you are an art channel
What?
@@jord_animation4704 in the video there is a superman ai image
Touch grass.
Depends, if you like AI art plastering your video and removing any sense of originality?
Dude the same thing happened to me in high school. I forgot how to read for an entire year and had to rely on audio books for the words to make sense
Man art block is such a pain
Genuinely how it feels to play an old game you used to be good at
What happens when you overwork yourself like crazy. Been there before, a vacation helps 100%
And you wonder why we like Pixar they actually told him to take a break that's crazy in today's world
Bro knew exactly what he was doing with Miss incredible my guy💀
now he knows how spongebob felt
I once forgot my employee clock in number and couldn’t clock in. I’d been working there for over a year by this point. Still am, by the way.
If you run a company focused on making art, you need to understand the problems artists may face (burnot, art block, impostor syndrome...) Help them with that will boost their productivity.
Damn a boss that actually understands and is willing to help out. We need more of those
MAPPA: It seems you aren't overworked enough lad
As someone who works as an editor and animator, this hits hard 😢
when you're emotions quit
from the beginning i already knew that he should just take a break
The little bugs from space jam stole bros skill
Whoever's working on these videos, you gotta mix the audio better.
This bro had the biggest art block of the entire history of human kind
“My Sprint is more like Verizon” is LEGENDARY haha!!
He had a brain fart 😂😂😂
Bro gave us the brilliance that is elastigirl, i think he deserves a break
That director was a real human being, unlike 99.9% of other Managers/Directors.
Ah artblock.. my arch nemesis
Mappa watching:…nah its cause yall got tool much free time
if he was in mappa he's done for
I recently just got out of artblock and this is exactly what it’s like
You firstly don’t have any motivation/energy/inspiration to draw but if you do try you first find out that it doesn’t bring you any joy, it feels like a chore and then you notice that you can’t draw anymore, like one moment you could and the other you can’t, the first time I went through it I was confused and then sad thinking I could never draw again like I genuinely lost the ability to draw but after hearing what Art block is although still sad when it happened I knew when the time comes I can draw again, I won’t loose it forever so I work on stuff that is stressing me in my life and firstly remove or work on the tiny things and work myself up to things I find harder to work on that stress me until I’m out of artblock
Its like that one spongebob episode
That was great from the director that he realised what happened to this man and decided to help him instead of fireing him
This happens to musicians sometimes. It most commonly occurs when they are preparing for a competition.
I mean that’s what overworking will do to anyone. I’m glad to see his director told him to take it easy and recover
Monstars really pulled up and took that man’s talent 😭😭 I hope they put it to use I want cars 4
It's crazy what art block can do to you
Im a programmer with that issue. I sat down 3 weeks ago to make a project ive had thought about for a bit, now that school is done for a bit. Never really even got started i just forgot how to problem solve
Its crazy that he got so stressed from constant work that his brain literally gave him Temporary Amnesia about how to perform his job... AND THAT STRESSED HIM OUT EVEN MORE!
He's like the Real Life Tobey Maguire Spider-Man, like in Spider-Man 2 he lost his Powers due to a Mid Life Crisis. Now he's got it back, and he's still keeping a Good Job.
And that was Pixar before this new era: they even scrapped a lot of films because they didn't liked the end result, but today to just grab some money, they they release it as it is.
I had that in collage this year and it cost me a lot, almost everything.
His experience is extremely real. Sometimes you’re on top of your game, making things that completely shock yourself. Sometimes you completely forget how to art.
Programming with a deadlocked brain is a nightmare, I feel like I lost my mind when it happens
Back when big corporations weren't evil. Good ol days, good ol days
Damn they were so nice to him, that's great
This happens to artist all the time. That’s why that part in Kiki’s Delivery Service is so relatable
sports players know this feeling. those days when u come to play a basketball game and nothing will go in even the easy shots and you’re just like how did i forget how to play overnight…
This is a great reminder to all creative people that feel stuck or like they lost it. It's good to take breaks and live life for a bit.
brad bird recgonizing that he needed a break is so cool
That explains why I have been waiting for hxh since 2011 😭
"I don't understand what's wrong with me" same dude same.
The same thing happened to me the second i graduated from art school. i completely lost all motivation and didnt want to even look at my sketchbook. Finally getting better and it feels sooo good lol
My man had a spiderman 2 moment in his life
Warms my heart that the boss was so understanding.
His brain took "If you don't stop, I will" literally