I could be ruined

[Jaxilon]

Ok, as I mentioned I'm new to the whole digital artwork thing but I think you guys may have ruined me

Today I'm driving down the road when I look at the sky and think, "that's a Guassian Blur". Good thing my wife was ignoring me or she might have thought I was nuts. LOL

Later I was watching a movie with my wife and there was a top down scene with a boat on the ocean and I excitedly said, "Hey, I can make that look with 'Render>Clouds>Solid Noise'.

I'm sure soon I will be looking at everyday things and trying to figure out how to reproduce them. Does this happen to anyone else?

Is it too late to switch pills so I can go back or is it over for me?

Ahhhhhhh!!

[NeonKnight]

Nah, a lot of us think similar things

[Coyotemax]

Welcome to my world. My wife hates watching movies with me when they include cgi effects (which is almost all of them these days, lol)

[ravells]

It gets worse if you start to do 3d modelling. You are constantly looking at everyday objects, wondering how to bevel them properly, unwrap them, texture them etc.

[Ascension]

You start looking at everything that way...everyday things that you'd never think about otherwise. You look at something and instantly know how to reproduce it, in theory. Then you start taking pictures of sand and concrete cracks and tree bark thinking to yourself, these are going to make some nice textures, but everyone else thinks your nuts.

[Turgenev]

Then you start taking pictures of sand and concrete cracks and tree bark thinking to yourself, these are going to make some nice textures, but everyone else thinks your nuts.

LOL! I do that all the time. When I'm downtown (Toronto), tourists will be walking around talking pictures of the buildings and various locations and there is me with my camera taking pictures of the sidewalk, the grass, the brick work on a building, the various stone work, etc. for the textures. I've gotten a few weird stares as people stand back to get a picture of a building and I walk up close and take a picture of a blank wall.

While I don't spend too much time thinking how could I reproduce an effect I see in the real world, I do draw a lot of my inspiration from the world around me. I can look at the cracks in the pavement and suddenly think 'hey they would make a good cavern map.' Or look at a light fixture and think it would make a cool dungeon design. That sort of thing.

[Ascension]

I see faces...everywhere. My linoleum floor in the bathroom, the marble in the shower, my wooden work table...everywhere. I keep telling myself that I need to draw them but I never see them twice. That wrought iron is a great tip...I use that stuff a lot for inspiration in my glass work.

[Redrobes]

After smirking at these comments I get a demand from my wife for whats all the fuss so I had to read some out. She demands that I point out that she painted some textures for my maps & stuff... oh and fetches good pot plants in garden centers for me to get top down shots of... and she has more OS maps than I do - at the 25K scale too I am reminded...

Personally I think she got a gold star when I heard "Why the hell does flash 10 never work properly on Ubuntu".

Ahhh

[Turgenev]

I see faces...everywhere. My linoleum floor in the bathroom, the marble in the shower, my wooden work table...everywhere. I keep telling myself that I need to draw them but I never see them twice. That wrought iron is a great tip...I use that stuff a lot for inspiration in my glass work.

I do the exact same thing. Pareidolia is a wonderful thing.

[Steel General]

I see faces...everywhere.

I think they have medicine for this...