Used to think posting unfinished work was a bad look, but I had a 3 hour long color grading block last night

I spent forever trying to get the shading right on a piece and nothing was working. Finally just uploaded a WIP to see if anyone had feedback, and some guy pointed out my layer was set to multiply the whole time. Has anyone else wasted hours on a simple setting mistake like that?

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garcia.wren8d ago

Three hours on a color grading block isn't that serious. You probably just needed a break. Posting unfinished work for feedback is fine, but acting like a simple layer mistake is some huge tragedy is overblown. Everyone makes dumb errors sometimes, that's just part of learning. The real issue is people treating every minor setback like a creative crisis. Just fix the layer, move on, and stop making a mountain out of a molehill.

the_john8d ago

Hold on, @garcia.wren, wait a minute. Did you just say three hours on a color grading block isn't that serious? Man, for a lot of people, three hours is a huge chunk of their day, especially if the fix was just one layer that got hidden. It's not about the error being a tragedy, it's about the time investment and the frustration of realizing you wasted three hours on something that simple. Calling it a mountain out of a molehill ignores the real feeling of exhaustion that comes from spinning your wheels on a basic mistake. It's easy to say "just fix it" but the headspace loss is a real thing for some of us. Seems like you're missing the point here entirely.

luna2618d ago

and totally unrelated but this reminds me of that time i spent 4 hours trying to figure out why my audio mix was all messed up and it turned out i had my headphones plugged into the wrong port the whole time. felt like the biggest idiot but also kinda funny looking back. @garcia.wren i get where youre coming from about not treating it like a crisis but sometimes the dumb stuff hits different when you're already tired and grinding.