Were the community at?
 

I took a short vacation and I come back here to AVS fourms and look whats happened! I left with everyone feeling so up-beat and energetic about the new AVS version with more then we could have ever wished for. People had new ideas, new concepts, and all around sick new stuff. Now here we are a few months later and look what's happend.

The first noticible thing is that the community is "quiting". A large persentage of AVSers that were making cool, innovative presets just a few months ago are gone. Why they say? Lack of inspiration, lack of free time, lackluster love of AVS; all three of these things seem to rank at the top of their reasons for quitting. Now I understand that this is an acceptable part of life, but what we are getting in return is no were near as good. While I will say some of the new AVSers that have joined out community make up many of the gaps left un-filled, but I swear to god, the next person who posts a thread title with the word newbie in it, or any of it's similar incarnations (n00b, noob, sucky, etc...) I am going to flame their ass right off the fucking page. I just can't understand why people would straight out call their own artwork as noobish/trashy/sucky or anything of that sort. It just boggles my mind to see how they can degrade their own work like that.
I don't know what's happened here, I just hope it has more to do with a summer thing, and it will all be over soon. I can only hope though.

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A final part with my rant, the next person that says anything along the lines of them making sucky presets because they don't understand any of the math behind superscopes and/or dynamic movements, or any statement like that, I am going to flame their lazy fucking asses, because their are plenty of resources available to learn how to use them, it's just that their too stupid and/or lazy to do it.

Thank you
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Just for a side note, I am not going to use this thread as an early warning or an excuse for me flaming anybody, I am ready to accept any consequences that come from my actions.
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Yea it does suck a bit that so many people are 'quitting', mainly because it says a lot about how people percieve AVS as something which can or needs to be 'quit'.

As for:
The reason people are self depriciating is that they are intimidated by the rest of the AVS artwork they see. Since they cannot compete they feel the need to pre-warn people that their work is of a lower quality. I think someone (yathosho?) started a thread on the deviantart visualisation forums about the future of AVS, where he commented that new artists have a very steep lerning curve to ascend and many are probably frightened off.

Pak, That was started by nemoorange... :p

As for the quitting... i will just refuse to answer that.

Yea it seems like a nemo kinda topic.

Anyway only losers quit AVS... all the cool kids still do it. Quitters like tug are just afraid thats all.

I'm such a master of psychology.

It makes me happy thinking that someone may have watched and enjoyed my presets in the past and is sad i'm quitting.
( and sad in a way because someone liked me then I quit. )

( and as I said... the term was 'thinking' not 'knowing'. )

I think a large part of it has to do with creativity. I can attest that there comes a point where you feel like you're running out of ideas. It feels like everything has already been done, so why bother trying to re-hash some presets that were cool a year ago?

The other part is that AVS is pretty much a stagnant application now that Justin has left Winamp. I highly doubt AVS will be upgraded anytime in the future. This means that innovation must come from the preset-author's end. & since we're all out of ideas, well I guess that means that we're going nowhere.

But, honestly, this is no big deal. There's a fresh batch of artists over at deviantART that are on the brink of their break-through release. So let's just stop talking about Jukka, Steven, etc & move on.

Your right about it not being a big deal nemo, I for one dont get all torn up over people 'quitting', but thats probably because I can download new Tugg, El-vis and Coned presets fairly often. If those three really did quit and never come back (i.e. didnt post here, didnt come on #finnish-flash, didnt release presets on devart etc...) then I probably would feel there was a bit of a hole.

Plus one shouldnt delude oneself that talent can be learnt, everyone has a unique style and it is unlikely we will see the work of, say, Unconed ever replicated... not just because of his technical skill but also his artistic ability and style.

Pak-9, fine, if you want me to quit posting and being part of the community, just to prove a point then.... i won't, because im such a addict :(
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Hmm i still wouldn't say one preset in 2 weeks "often", but im just me :weird:

The reason most people call their first work n00bish is because they've only seen the Winamp 5 general picks collection, and can see their work is crap compared to it. I just called my N00bish because I'm a t--t

i dont call my presets n00bish....just Unoriginal :p

I make presets at about that pace :confused:, well, on average anyway, I have peaks and troughs of interest.

I'm not quitting!!

in fact, im producing presets just as often as ever!!

I totally agree with the whole 'not being able to find ideas' thing. And with the whole peaks and troughs thing Pak was mentioning, I do the same thing. It might seem as if we're quitting, but we're really just taking a break ;)

Yea sometimes fresh ideas are harder to find than sidds first and second packs.

Here.

pack1,
pack2

Should work, but my server has been a bit unpredictable ever since my second pack got slashdotted.

I hate you all....
:D

Well, the speed of making presets isn't really the issue, some people make presets even slower and still aren't quitting. For me the issue is that packs are too much work & dedication and i don't have the patience anymore to hold a preset just for myself for months... let alone 20 presets :igor:

So why not just release singles and consolodate them into packs occasionally....a la exactly what your doing now. (i.e. not really quitting) Hey dont get me wrong I want you to stick around, but it would be nice if you didnt have the label of an 'Ex-AVS artist'.

I know it sounds silly but it seems almost like a trend, "hey look, tugg and coned are quitting, I gotta get me a piece of that!".

But it will be the same 20 presets all over again and it's not like that's wise or anything. Who wants to see the same stuff all over again anyway? ;)

But if that makes you feel better then you can call me a active avser pakkie :p

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Yeah, you're right, people who mimic me are stupid indeed :blah: :p
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Yes! I got Tugg to admit he hasn't really quit, now I can quit and it wont look like I'm copying him! ;)

Awwww man! You so totally wouldn't pull one of those on us pak, man we couldn't take it!

Maybe what we should do is make a new AVS group just out of people who have "quit" making avs...


btw-it is nice too see all these freindly faces popping up all over this thread :up:

lol @ Toast

Yea that group would kick the proverbial... Tug, Coned, El-vis... its an all star cast! :D

This is the devart forum topic I was talking about earlier:

http://forum.deviantart.com/gallerie...zation/243586/