I totaly maed it

So here's my "painting" done on Photoshop in tribute.

Gerkinman made a post and I just had to make this rant to follow up. I've had some thoughts floating around for a while, here goes.

I'm sure you know the lesson about the school of fish. School always says you should be the one who doesn't follow the crowd. This goes beyond "being nice" or "working hard". This applies everywhere in life, and there is massive herd of people who will not realize, ever, that they are part of this crowd. I've recently started to really look outside the box. Not just in solving problems, or trying to find a funny joke or gag, no. I am looking at life as a whole in a much more challenging way, and as I rant about me, I hope that at least one person who reads this is inspired to do the same.

The general population of people is dumb. They adhere to familiarity, and like a herd of cows or a school of fish, they mindlessly drift with the group. Individual man can be brilliant, but people as a mass are dumb. They hide in a personal bubble of security where nothing is challenged, everything is just accepted as is. I got sick of it, and with the insight of a friend back in school, I suddenly started to see outside this bubble of nothingness.

It started with something simple. The music I listen to. There are a lot of people out there that at least somewhat break out of the bubble in this category. If you've made the realization of how many mainstream bands out there that suck and have no actual talent, there's hope for you. If not, exit my page, you're wasting your time. The media is a broadcasted form of the herd of people. Once you become famous, you don't have to do anything, you just have to smile to the camera and let the shit pile out of your mouth. You have it made. Eventually, though, this free ride only lasts for about ten years, and you eventually have to do something drastic, either grow some talent, or create drama in your life. Of course, the fame-inflated people decide to create drama, blissfully unaware of the other option. Fame is not the way it's perceived to be.

Skipping topics like religion and politics....

This leads me into art and the internet. The internet is a brilliant, yet unstable place. There are going to be all sorts of people, besides the blind and those who don't know how to open Internet Explorer. All that aside, the internet will yet again contain an even more concentrated form of the herd of people. Some may be able to relate to one form, the retards who think anything is funny. A little deeper and you realize that that specific group is fuckin' massive. I don't mean "anything" in its most literal form. I'll explain.

Someone released a collab that achieved brilliant success. Countless applauding reviews, a phenomenal score, and even made it in the top 50 submissions. Who wouldn't want that? I've looked at this. The drawing quality for some artists was great, there were "top-tier" animators, and it was a parody of a ridiculously popular video game. One which I've never played, but don't actually need to. I already know everything needed to see this paper thin amount of thought. Someone else pointed this out with another collab the same day. It featured "lower-tier" animators, (purposely) crappy drawings, and it insulted a ridiculously popular video game parody. It received lower scores despite what I felt was brilliance.

It's not just this collab, though. Not at all. There are plently more things that became popular simply because they were parodies or by an already popular artist. Too lazy to list even a few, I continue on. Even the friggen Sonic collabs I'm in aren't as good as the popularity vote is giving them. Look at the Sonic Tribute Collab from 3-4 years ago. One person actually created good animation. The other, namely Doom-Fox, simply reused some graphics from his previous work. I don't blame him for the time budget he had, but regardless, they brought the collab up. Along with the help of Sega's copyrighted character. The Sonic Shorts Collab series is floating around the bottom of the top 50 list. Half the shorts there are not funny. I hate my first short. I hate the fact that it got so popular (verses my other shorts) simply because I fed the herd of people. "Eggman got fatter." "It was the best idea since underwear." Both of those were generally filler gags, too. About 3 reviews out of the thousand-something there pointed out the real joke of the short. Oh well. I brought it upon myself.

Creating art is completely different from feeding the herd. The music out there is simply giving the media something to babble about. So many talentless dumbasses making a ton of money off the mindless zombies that praise them. People think that knowing the program will make them good artists. People think that being able to strum a lot of stuff on a guitar makes them masterful musicians. I am well aware that I am currently neither. I need a lot of practice and insight for both. Creativity is misunderstood so often. The word is passed around too loosely.

The internet praises on a completely different basis than art really is. It comes and goes, and those popular things will lose brilliance with due time. Truly good art will withstand time.There's a good chance it will also not be popular with the crowd, it won't follow the fads. Fads. A word for the junk that floats around the brain-dead herd of people. It's a little saddening. Artists will struggle on the internet because the majority of the art is dumb. It is not about the art. It's about the mindless instant gratification. I can guarantee that the majority of the stuff on the internet will not break outside those electronic walls into the real world with any high-flying success.

With this mind-numbing rant finished, I already have an ounce more respect to anyone who read all the way through. My advice: Open your mind. Open your influences. If all you watch, if all you listen to, if all you pay attention is the same crap everyone else follows, that's all you'll ever be able to produce.

(I swear I can almost write a book on this stuff.)

Hint: _den_ty t_eft

I've got a couple Sonic shorts still to come out in the collab, idk how long it'll go, but I plan on being in until the 5th volume. I have two more shorts yet to be seen, one for each of the next, hopefully they aren't too bad. I plan on working on some solo non-Sonic-related work after this, so we'll see how I fair on my own after years of hiding in cheesy collabs.

Oh and if it's any compensation, I did make a piece for the Sonic Tribute Collab 2 a long while ago, dunno when or if it'll come out, but The Wax has that covered.

By the time you're viewing this, I've probably done a really good flash. Possibly a fantastic collab.

Awesome.