2) *some* people who inspire me include Iain McCaig, for his unstoppable enthusiasm; Claire Wendling, Norman Rockwell, Jack Kirby and Ralph McQuarrie for being able to make art despite psych problems or terrible setbacks; Hugh Cohen for telling me something vital about life. Obviously my grandparents, the Buddha and the Baal Shem Tov. There's a lot more people.
3) What people think of me, or how I perceive them to think of me, *really* affects me.
4) what I'm most looking forward to is whenever this whole pandemic eases up, there'll be less stress, and we all can kinda move forward with bits of our lives currently on hold. I worry we might need to be prepared to go back to quarantine regularly for years to come, tho.
5) Always put stuff down on paper. You can always revise it or redo it or throw it out but if it's only in your head, it's perfect and theoretical, you don't really have anything to work with. I *try* to remember this, anyway.
6) I think I'd really love to be a storyboard artist. It's probably a little too late for me, but I like the idea of tackling camera movement as well as moving elements in the shot, and I feel like I couldn't get too perfectionistic in such a schedule-driven thing.
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