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How to be Productive When You're Lazy - A Guide for Artists
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How to be Productive When You're Lazy - A Guide for Artists

As an artist, there's a good chance you've been called "lazy." You've probably also felt like you're not as productive or prolific as you could be. Let these two factors mingle around in your brain long enough and you'll start believing that you're the exact type of stereotypical "lazy artist" that people might say you are. There's a lot of ups-and-downs in the life of an artist - some of this is due to the nature of being a creative and some of it is just life. Let me show you some of the things I've learned and give you 5 steps to getting back to a productive lifestyle when you feel lazy.

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Copyright and What Animators Need To Know About It - Parody, Fair Use, Fan Art
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Copyright and What Animators Need To Know About It - Parody, Fair Use, Fan Art

As an animator, it's important to me to be able to pull from collectively known culture (sometimes "pop," sometimes old) in order to tell a visual story. Culture is a language that we can use to communicate and connect with others and the wider that particular culture is (meaning that of music, stories, and now film) the more people you, as an artist, can reach. But then there's Copyright, which stands in the way of using certain types of culture because it's protected. That can feel unnecessary until it's YOUR work that you don't want appropriated for another use than what you intended. Having something fall out of your hands like that feels like stealing, but is it? I've taken the last couple months reading and compiling information in order to distill it down for you, the animator, whether you're concerned about your use of copyrighted material in parody, fan art or question why it even exists in the first place. Why is the copyright term so long anyway? All (relatively speaking) will be revealed!

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