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I had one of the worst depressions I’ve ever had about a year ago and at the time I was working for a production house. I was in the worst place mentally and then clocking in to work on an animated piece that was cheestringXgarfieldXpeter andre. It was a blessing in disguise because I’ll never feel joy like having every rendered image of the cheestring man in my downloads again but looking back that was an experience I had that couldn’t have been written. Has anyone else had that feeling? What’s the project that was so opposite from how you felt at the time?
George's avatar
@Ellie Suffling Thanks for sharing - the cheesestring man is iconic 🧀 That's something I really like about the creative process - when you get super into on what your are working on. Having something to focus can sometimes be helpful if you're going through a difficult time I don't really...
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@George Rowland that’s lovely! Id love to see some of your photos. My post was a lot about when you’re not feeling fun and the brief is to create fun in others and how odd that feels but your response did make me think that actually the fact that my job is to create fun in others is fun in itself.
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