tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post6779497219031592522..comments2023-11-09T21:41:38.865+00:00Comments on My Medicated Cartoon Life: Now I need helpBitter Animatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06617537816971588380noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170007670756935047.post-5224135986984071142008-12-03T17:34:00.000+00:002008-12-03T17:34:00.000+00:00The former Mexican tycoon of the TV industry —Emil...The former Mexican tycoon of the TV industry —Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, called 'The Tiger' by both his admirers and enemies—used to say this about the kind of content in the channels of his company, Televisa: "If people want shit, I give them shit".<BR/><BR/>He died one of the richest men in Mexico, possibly Latin America.<BR/><BR/>The thing is, I'm with you in this one. I can't stand it when my boss tells me to design something I know is a complete mistake. The latest one was designing a steam room for one of our clients; complete with sink, shower, and A TOILET. A f*#&ing toilet in a sauna! Even when I pointed out the very obvious—how in hell do you keep toilet paper dry in a room full of steam—both my boss and the client told me not to worry about it and do what they asked.<BR/><BR/>I could go on and on...<BR/><BR/>But in the end, we must remember something. Even though we all—Animators, Architects, Designers—consider ourselves to be artists, the fact is that WE ARE NOT.<BR/><BR/>We are not artists. An artist does what he pleases; and that's a rather modern tendency, because in the middle ages and the Reinassance the artist had to do what his patron commanded of him. Remember that movie "The Agony & The Ecstasy" with NRA Charlton Helston? Raphael explains Michelangelo that artists are whores bending their will to their patrons in order to have the opportunity to create.<BR/><BR/>But then of course, there is the ethical dilemma: at what point your professional training is in complete opposition to what your clients are demanding? An Architect can't obey every wish & whim of their clients, lest the house could fall apart.<BR/><BR/>So at what point you walk away?Red Pill Junkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14738203580562140501noreply@blogger.com