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Deleted Scene: Who Can Steal Your Confidence?

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I heard from yet another art student who received yet another harsh-but-unhelpful critique from an industry butthead and I just had to drop everything I was doing to talk to my Magic Box students about it…

I cover three main points in this 20-minute rant.

The first two points are related:

  1. How to deal with a harsh critique from an industry butthead.
  2. How to respond when negative feedback wipes you out.

I wrap it up with a challenge to deliver stronger concepts, stronger ideas in your work and how to “invent the future” of games, animation, comics etc…

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