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Set and Ideas

ExperimenterExperimenter Posts: 162
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Hi, I need your help. I do not understand myself, when I buy a set I have so much ideas for pictures and stories with and around this set. But when I have the set on my screen I do not know what I should do with this set. Every idea I had when I bought the set is not good anymore or I think what an idiot idea was this.

Later I used the set so it was not a mistake to buy it. But I do not understand why I have this idea for a set and then everything is gone.

This problem I have with nearly every set, clothing, rooms, buildings vehicles etc.

Does somebody know this or have a solution for this problem

Comments

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,343

    Create a word, notepad, or excel document and write these ideal down. Or use a regular pen and paper notebook.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,931

    Also, beware of trying to run before you can walk - that tends to be an exercise in frustration (says the voice of on-going experience).

  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,564

    Why are the ideas you had not good anymore? Perhaps they're fine and you're just not sure how to go about making them work?

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321

    I think this is fairly common. You see a set and have an idea of what you want to do with it, but actually bringing that idea takes a lot of little steps. Halfway through you realize that it's just not working, you can't make it match what was in your head.

    Don't sweat it, it happens to all of us. You can keep going and make it work, ending up with something good even though it doesn't match your original idea. Or you can put it aside for later use, or even resign yourself to the fact that, just like the rest of us, you'll end up with items that you never use. Welcome to the world of creativity!

  • BradCarstenBradCarsten Posts: 856

    I just buy stuff that moves me in some way. It doesn't matter if I don't use it straight away, or know where I'll use it, because I know eventually I will be creating a scene and that will fit in perfectly. No Regrets. 

  • macleanmaclean Posts: 2,438

    One good way to learn is to google the type of set you're working with, find some interesting pics, then try to recreate them in a render. Reference photos can be used as inspiration, or simply technical exercises to get an effect you like. Sometimes it's good just to try and reproduce lighting or camera effects (backlight, depth-of-field, etc), just to learn how to do it. Then you have another tool you can use in a more artistic render.

    But I wouldn't stress yourself with impossible challenges. Keep it within your own limits to start with.

    mac

  • ExperimenterExperimenter Posts: 162

    Thank you. Your answers are very helpful and I start to think that this is a normal behavior.

    I make notes for what and why I bought a set.

    By the way I have an example from a few weeks ago to show you what happen when I bought a set;

    I bought the West Park hydrotherapy from the West Park series from Jack Tomalin. I had an idea for a woman came in and took a swim. I found my ideas great and had the pictures in my head from walk throu the door to walk in the room, walk in the pool to swim in the pool. But when I load the scene on my computer I start to think that is so idiot, so simple, nothing special and so on.

  • cjmarshcjmarsh Posts: 62

    Try changing the view around and the lighting, looking from different angles than normal, and check out the Rule of Thirds and the three point lighting setup. In my limited experience I've seen that a set can completely change both by looking at it from somewhere else and by looking at it in a different light.

  • ExperimenterExperimenter Posts: 162

    Ok thank you I will try it.

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914

    No artistic idea is a bad idea, until you give up on it.

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