Lightsen
Animation Yey!
Hey we have plenty of discussion about gaining subs and views, but I'd love to start a thread for you guys to share what other things you have gained.
For example, maybe answer some of these or make some yourself:
In your YouTube journey as a creator so far:
How long have you been a creator, and how many channels?
What skills have you learned?
Did you create or become part of a community or fandom?
Make any friends along the way?
Any life lessons, (good or bad)?
Now go wild :3 I'm curious!
------------------------
now of course I have to do this myself to start the ball rolling...
my answers:
How long have you been a creator, and how many channels?
1 channel, been chugging along for 13 years now
What skills have you learned?
I used Flash (called adobe animate now) for a long time, really learned by trial and error how to do things in it, and how things worked.
Recently, I've just started learning how to properly video edit (only basic stuff for me). humble bundle allowed me to grab vegas pro 15 suuuper cheap so I'm finally starting to figure out how to use and render with it, as well as edit sounds and things, its really not the most fun part of creating but a skill I heavily need!
Script writing and storyboarding is another useful skill!
(regardless I still have 0 idea how to use a camera/set up lighting etc.)
Did you create or become part of a community or fandom?
I haven't created any communities, but as a long time fan of Pokémon, I've been able to be a part of it's community for the majority of my life. there's also a community of animators online I've been enjoying watching, and they inspire me to improve!
Make any friends along the way?
I'm not a big sociality irl or online, but I've definitely met a few people over the years I talk to a lot, most of them are also into the same sort of things I am, but one in particular I met because we were in an official google hangout thing organised by YouTube to talk about some new feature, and we were the only ones left in the call. we got to talking and now we're close friends I'd like to say! I guess I'd class him as my one true youtuber friend haha.
Any life lessons, (good or bad)?
I've had to learn recently not to let every single comment affect me. sometimes people just write whatever is on their mind, and you have to be prepared for the negative along with the positive. It still stings when I get nasty comments, but I try to focus on the good ones, and I turned off sms notifications of comments, because a bad one at a random time of the day when you look at your phone and get called names isn't the sort of thing I was enjoying haha.
on the other hand, I've also learned how to really apply criticism, and used that to improve my content over the years, people really do give you brutally honest opinions, and even if I think they may be wrong, a few comments like that is enough to realise that yes this needs fixed or looked at, and now I feel way better seeing comments saying quality is improving. so yeah, learn to take criticism, because its valuable!
For example, maybe answer some of these or make some yourself:
In your YouTube journey as a creator so far:
How long have you been a creator, and how many channels?
What skills have you learned?
Did you create or become part of a community or fandom?
Make any friends along the way?
Any life lessons, (good or bad)?
Now go wild :3 I'm curious!
------------------------
now of course I have to do this myself to start the ball rolling...
my answers:
How long have you been a creator, and how many channels?
1 channel, been chugging along for 13 years now
What skills have you learned?
I used Flash (called adobe animate now) for a long time, really learned by trial and error how to do things in it, and how things worked.
Recently, I've just started learning how to properly video edit (only basic stuff for me). humble bundle allowed me to grab vegas pro 15 suuuper cheap so I'm finally starting to figure out how to use and render with it, as well as edit sounds and things, its really not the most fun part of creating but a skill I heavily need!
Script writing and storyboarding is another useful skill!
(regardless I still have 0 idea how to use a camera/set up lighting etc.)
Did you create or become part of a community or fandom?
I haven't created any communities, but as a long time fan of Pokémon, I've been able to be a part of it's community for the majority of my life. there's also a community of animators online I've been enjoying watching, and they inspire me to improve!
Make any friends along the way?
I'm not a big sociality irl or online, but I've definitely met a few people over the years I talk to a lot, most of them are also into the same sort of things I am, but one in particular I met because we were in an official google hangout thing organised by YouTube to talk about some new feature, and we were the only ones left in the call. we got to talking and now we're close friends I'd like to say! I guess I'd class him as my one true youtuber friend haha.
Any life lessons, (good or bad)?
I've had to learn recently not to let every single comment affect me. sometimes people just write whatever is on their mind, and you have to be prepared for the negative along with the positive. It still stings when I get nasty comments, but I try to focus on the good ones, and I turned off sms notifications of comments, because a bad one at a random time of the day when you look at your phone and get called names isn't the sort of thing I was enjoying haha.
on the other hand, I've also learned how to really apply criticism, and used that to improve my content over the years, people really do give you brutally honest opinions, and even if I think they may be wrong, a few comments like that is enough to realise that yes this needs fixed or looked at, and now I feel way better seeing comments saying quality is improving. so yeah, learn to take criticism, because its valuable!