you fail sometimes and you also succeed so this photo looks 100 real to me
it's weird to think that I've kind of been doing this for about 10 plus years HitFilm
is more accessible than ever before for those who are looking to start in content creation that's
what me and duver spoke about on our recent live stream what you're about to hear is actually the
highlights from that live stream so here's some advice from me and japan what sort of content
first made you look at the screen and go wow how did they make that how did they do that first
time I ever went wow was the death star exploding original star wars original star wars yeah yeah
like absolutely I still remember you know i think I've talked about it before on channels like
my dad, coming home from school my dad picked me up and be like we're gonna watch this film
and then afterwards because it was a vhs it would then went on to like the bonus content
where then i was like oh my god they were doing it with toys they developed toys yeah real models
were practical it's real models and stuff like that they made me go wow okay this is something i
want to do there was a movie that came out in 2009 called 2012. loads of crazy destruction sequences
and I remember I specifically remember looking at this and being like how did they do this in
such a realistic way so for me you know I think it was 2009 so I would have been 14. you know
14 year old me is looking at this and thinking how did they do that so i went off and i made
this in paint it's that sort of thing where it's like inspired by something
creating it yourself even though it is terrible you learn and you learn how to be
just a little bit of an artist and a little bit of whatever the tool is that you're using
everything that i have taken inspiration um from in the past is an attempt to learn like how do
they do how do they do this specific shot in this movie you're breaking down what makes it good yeah
exactly and and when you try and recreate that you fail sometimes and you also succeed so that's
how you actually learn yes it's okay to to copy stuff don't pass it off as your own but it is a
great opportunity to learn how they do it because you're looking at professional work it's like what
do they do that i don't currently do at the moment yeah mini gun yeah there's a minigun you got the
minigun there okay there it is this was actually from me and some friends looking at a film riot
okay tutorial, yeah and being like we could do that yeah we made a little sketch around it and turned
it into like i was shooting stuff in my garden and then using a friend as a target and you so you
take what you learn and then you apply it to your own and it's just fun yes but you're also learning
at the same time which is the best type all i've been doing is chasing the phantom grin of that
where it's just like the enjoyment of being on set having friends there and be like no we're gonna
make something awesome today and like yeah i think that's what you what you need to do when you're
starting out is just have fun with it one of the first big tips i have for you guys today is in
terms of getting started in this content creation field whether it's filmmaking whether it you know
video editing or visual effects specifically save your work really cool to look back one year two
year five years down the line and see just how much it's actually actually changed google drive
dropbox whatever it is hard drive just be sure you can access it because in five years it is 100
percent going to be worth it to look back in terms of uh another big tip try at least one new thing
with every project whether it's like dipping into character creation or tapping into a new software
which is a massive thing but sticking a bit of color grading on if you've never done that before
that is how you learn and that is how you progress your skills it's also how you find
what you're not interested in and what you are which is quite important later on in terms of
getting a job what made you start doing tutorials when HitFilm first came out that's this was 2011.
i'd been video editing for two or three years at that point and i was specifically interested
in visual effects and i knew that hitfilm was new and wouldn't have tutorials the tutorials
it's just like it's just helping people into being supportive and it's being like i've created this
cool thing here's how you can do it too it's sort of given it giving it back because that's
how i learned it's like learning it twice when you experience other people you go through it
it's kind of like studying basically you're just going over it you know twice three times trying
to make this this tutorial and you learn the software that much better do you believe in the
grind i said this sort of thing where it's like you know work until 2 a.m you know
don't save your work and then when it crashes redo it all and because i don't i'll tell you
right now if you if you're up all night doing stuff you probably did not plan correctly and and
i i don't think there's ever been a project where i like kill myself trying to complete it because
it's just not healthy and it's just you shouldn't really be doing that I'll agree with that with uh
you know it's not it's not healthy to do all the time but i'm very much on the side of like i would
not be where i am now with the skills that i have now if i hadn't done that before yes like so i put
in those hours i've put in the time to make sure that i can hit this mark now two different size of
the coin here yeah that isn't there may or may not be a right answer i will never advocate for crunch
or grind or stuff but the thing but the thing is that now i'm i'm on your side though but yeah you
know you fit it you fit it around you where you can and it's i feel like it's easy for students
to get stressed when they're not creating because they feel like they need to yeah
like it shouldn't be a pressure it should really come naturally and that's like the
one thing to kind of like because the moment that you apply the pressure yeah you're gonna
hit every roadblock you're gonna make mistakes it's gonna it's like a question yeah i love one
i think that my work is really bad when in fact it is quite okay or even good but i'm seeing all
those little mistakes i think this is a corridor tactic where it's you get it to 90 percent because
that last 10 you'll spend 90 percent of your time and nobody's gonna know and nobody's gonna notice
i know that i could go on for days changing and adding stuff yeah but no one's gonna know
you get it to the point where it's like cool okay it ticks all the boxes that i needed to and the
deadline is this point so i wanna make sure that yeah when it comes to color grading or visual
effects taking a step back and just not looking at it for a day totally if you can that is a tip that
i do on purpose actually is take a break oh yeah if i can afford to in terms of like quality checks
and making sure that it's good it can be very useful to take a step back and notice those things
there are always going to be people who are better like it's it's it's a fact like it's very hard
to be the best at the world at anything so that doesn't mean you should stop it means that there
will be a gap between where you are and where you want to be and that gap is going to get smaller
but it's always going to be there like you and i have been doing this for 10 plus years there are
things that i can't do that i want to learn how to do in unreal in 3d and cgi and stuff like that
the gap is always going to be there it's going to get smaller over the years and eventually you will
be proud of what you make by doing things like taking breaks and trying new things every time
and eventually you will sort of create things that other people
aspire to make yeah so you event you eventually come back around to the start i can guarantee
that you won't get there if you don't make stuff yeah if you don't practice the the gap is always
going to stay bigger yes you don't try yes so you have to fail you have to make mistakes you have
to learn from them um and just keep making stuff again save it because you'll be able to look back
i'm gonna keep saying that yeah and um you have to you have to keep going you have to otherwise
you'll always like you said have a massive gap between uh where you are and where you want to be
guys thanks so much for watching again if you are looking to get started in content creation then
HitFilm is the perfect place to start there's a link down in the description of this video that
will take you directly to fxhome.com where you can download and get started today we really enjoyed
this live stream and a bunch of you showed up to watch so thank you for that and if you want to see
more then head on over to twitch.tv fx home this video looks like it's also going to be great for
you so i highly recommend you going to check that out and i might see you in the next video