Thread 1017471

>have the drive to do something
>open blender
>stare at cube while alt tabbing back to other shit
>drive slowly melts away
>eventually do nothing and close blender
how do you fight it bros? i used to spend hours learning and practicing, now its all gone

>>1017471 (OP)
look for mmd models. Start modifying them. After a few attempts make your own model and you will end up famous on Iwara some day.

>>1017471 (OP)
I've been trying to cut out things that affect my attention span, things that weren't present in my life 20 years ago

>>1017480
20 years ago i wasnt alive, do i cut out air?

>>1017483
You do what you can

>>1017471 (OP)
Just exit and extrude that cube

>>1017471 (OP)
Right now what you should do is make a plan of how you're going to make something, in blender if that's your ultimate goal or some such.
Maybe you can tell that you need to have an idea of something to model before you can do it. Potentially you've tried this and realized that you'll need a high quality reference to do it for real and with any efficiency. Therefore at minimum you have this set of steps
1. Come up with something to model
2. Draw (or find, most probably draw since random pictures from the internet are rarely plan and elevation) yourself a reference of the thing
3. Bring this stuff to blender and model it
As such you're at least three random motivation bursts away from having something (anything) done. It's not surprising that you don't manage to do anything when you're not prepared for it.

>>1017497
I have a basic mesh going but it's all kinds of fucked. Could relly use some input.

>>1017504
It's not currently worth your time to fix mistakes in previous steps.
Imagine you're a production team where every step is done by a different person. You would fully expect that at the start of a project everyone whose work is a later step of the process is blocked by the earlier steps not being done, and the production pipeline reaches maximum capacity when everyone is working on something in parallel.
If you then start going back and forth on a single piece, it's as if the separate workers also get blocked by the work later in the pipeline not being done, either. In the idealized case of this, nothing can be done because nothing has been done, and it's only possible to start once everything is also finished.
You will critique your work separately, take notes, and leave the application of the critique to your next piece. If you look at the work of artists who have produced multiple pieces of work, and see that latter works are improved in some way compared to earlier ones, you know that it would not have been plausible for them to not do this to some extent.

>>1017483
please do

>>1017506
Good advice. I'll figure out how to align the model to the origin again and just start texturing and then rigging and making some basic animations ans then moving on to the next asset.

>>1017471 (OP)
There was once a man who went out to sea, but he forgot to attach a sail to his boat, and didn't buy a map. So he drifted aimlessly for a while and then swam back to shore.

>>1017471 (OP)
Alt tabbing is the problem. Just remember nobody on his deathbed ever regret not watching twitch/eceleb/twitter.

>>1017471 (OP)
I mean if you didn't do anything you didn't have that drive in the first place

>turn off precise mouse input
>aim improves

>>1017471 (OP)
I feel this but with Unreal engine...
spent years learning and when it comes to making something of my own rather than for a company I just get demotivated

>>1017970
its not that i didnt do anything, i have trouble with moderation so im prone to burnout and then not even want to look at the blender icon. i was in the "so into what im working on i lose track of time if it werent for my dog" phase so i guess this is the rebound

What inspires me is the modding community of Source games. Say I want to play as Almighty Tallest Red in Gmod. I would have to learn how to model, texture, and rig such a character. Nobody else will do it for me, so I should do it.

>>1017471 (OP)
>I HAVE BWAIN PWOBWIM I WANT TO BE POPUWAH AND WICH, HOW YOU PAY ATTENTION TO FINGS
If you barely survived school maybe things that require effort aren't for you

>find video tutorial
>open blender
>close blender
yep, same thing happen to me

>>1017471 (OP)
its possible to lose interest on an old interest retard. move on.

>>1017471 (OP)
AI actually helps with motivation, because you can just ask stuff you want, it will get some of the stuff you asked for right, but then there will always be small parts here and there you will need to figure out youself even just to understand how to reprompt, and you will be way more willing to study that than jumping on a huge mountain of neverending tutorials without narrow focus. The problem is that AI only works like that for programming/devops currently, for 3d it's way behind.

>>1017471 (OP)
EZ af nigga. It's called unplugging the ethernet cable & wifi antenna to your computer. Download KoboldCPP and use $MODEL_OF_THE_MONTH to replace google.

>>1017471 (OP)
>how do you fight it bros?
My knowing the truth: it's not about "drive", it's about you not know what the fuck you're doing.
Learn.

>>1017471 (OP)
If you have to force yourself to learn a skill you aren't going to make it. The hard truth