u/Public-Vermicelli198

I found this site, it's basically just Artsy but smaller and with a different vibe. I literally cannot find anything about it online or anyone talking about it but there seems to be a lot of art on there. I made an account, it said there is a review process but I was accepted immediately lol. Is it a scam, data collection, or maybe just too small to be known yet?

I've noticed across like 8 years of being in art education that almost all of my digital media professors highly prefer Macs and won't touch Windows with a 10 foot pole. From graphic design to wild installation/video artists, they are all diehard. I'm wondering if this is just due to their age/the Mac+Adobe affair being pushed really hard and dominating the art education field. Do artists outside of academia tend to prefer Macs too? It's just kind of weird to me, I'd think more people would be annoyed by how restricting it is about what software and modifications you can have, but I also kind of get it if you're used to Adobe and like it being streamlined on the Mac.

I applied to the Shortbox Comic Fair this year, they don't have a date or range for notification of acceptance and I don't know if they send rejection emails or not. Has anyone who's done it before know anything about this?

Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this. I need to submit drive links of PDFs of my comics for a contest. I made sure to flatten all layers, images are like 500KB each. Each PDF is about 10-30 images. I have tried compressing PDF files in different sizes, at 5MB where I lose tons of quality it displays fine, but I cannot submit at such low quality. At 15 MB where I get decent quality, they always display fine in my file explorer, but when I upload to Drive, it usually takes forever to load or some pages don't load and say "could not preview file, problem loading the page". I don't know if it's drive, my files, or my wifi, but if this happens when my portfolio is being reviewed they will probably just skip over me and I won't have a chance. They specifically say they will not download files for review. Please help!

So I am a mixed/new media animator, painter, sculptor, etc. Everything I do involves some form of digital technology but usualy ends as a physical piece through printing and fabricating, and the majority of my process happens in that transition from digital to physical. I say this because I can't really find any residencies that focus on expirimental processes or that have any digital media resources. Actually a lot of them seem to be completely off the grid without even any internet connection lol.

This actually makes perfect sense to me because it seems like a large reason why people go to them is for the medium specific facilities, like printing presses, looms, etc. Personally I'm not that interested in a residency right now, but I'm just wondering if there even are any that would be suited for me. It's a big deal to a lot of my peers and I don't want to fall behind by being the only one to not go to one.

I'm from America and recently found out my animated film was accepted to a European traveling film festival, one of the locations it'll be shown in is the Moscow Nomadic Culture Museum. I was really excited since some Russian concepts, like тселостность are very important to me and my process.

I have also been wondering if Russian people would really like my art, since it's very weird, and not traditional. I rarely see anything regarding Russia's contemporary art scene and people's interests. Are contemporary Russian artists making conceptual things similar to what you'd see in museums like the MoMA in New York for example? I feel like all I really know of Russian art is modern/ early post-modernism and movements like Suprematism. It seems hard to get a good view of Russian contemporary art currently from the west because of media censorship.

I am looking for advice from people who understand what I'm going through because it seems like all the talk about high performance computers revolves around gaming, and I don't really know how that scaling translates to animation or video art.

I have been making keyframing based animations in Premiere and After Effects for about 4 years. I went to an arts high school and I was able to use the departments really nice Mac Studio to do these. I'd have a bunch of nested sequences of layered gifs, and really large png files to create scrolling and zoomable backgrounds. It doesn't really seem that complex but it is a lot for the program to handle because the files can be so large and there is so much going on at once. It has a very collagey stop motion feel to it, and the strain it puts on the program almost adds to the vibe and movement I want from it lol. I guess I would also be open to suggestions for other programs (however I get Adobe stuff free from my school so I don't really wanna pay a lot of money for another program).

Even on the Mac Studio, the playback frame rate would be super super low, and I'd basically have to render the animation every few changes to see what it actually looked like. I assume that computer probably had an M4 chip. Now I am stuck with my 6 year old Dell with 8gb Ram and only a graphics card, and it can barely even run Photoshop. I know I need to upgrade now because I have a 3D animation class next year. My teacher already told me we won't be doing any modeling/rigging in the class, but I know how to do some of that and want to make animations with my own assets. I know I will have to spend a lot of time on it out of class, but my university doesn't even give us access to the room with the Mac Studios in it outside of our designated class time of 6 hours a week so I think it's time for me to just buy a new computer so I can continue making 2D animations as well.

I'm leaning towards a Macbook Pro right now. I don't really like Macs because I don't like how restrictive the system is about what you can download and customize. But I know Adobe software just runs better and is optimized for Apple, I do all my assets on my iPad already, and it seems like the M5 significantly outperforms Nvidia chips anyways. I am just wondering what laptops other animators use, and what their experience is with Macbook Pro performance for this kind of stuff before I drop 2 grand on a computer.

I am looking for advice from people who understand what I'm going through because it seems like all the talk about high performance computers revolves around gaming, and I don't really know how that scaling translates to animation or video art.

I have been making keyframing based animations in Premiere and After Effects for about 4 years. I went to an arts high school and I was able to use the departments really nice Mac Studio to do these. I'd have a bunch of nested sequences of layered gifs, and really large png files to create scrolling and zoomable backgrounds. It doesn't really seem that complex but it is a lot for the program to handle because the files can be so large and there is so much going on at once. It has a very collagey stop motion feel to it, and the strain it puts on the program almost adds to the vibe and movement I want from it lol. I guess I would also be open to suggestions for other programs (however I get Adobe stuff free from my school so I don't really wanna pay a lot of money for another program).

Even on the Mac Studio, the playback frame rate would be super super low, and I'd basically have to render the animation every few changes to see what it actually looked like. I assume that computer probably had an M4 chip. Now I am stuck with my 6 year old Dell with 8gb Ram and only a graphics card, and it can barely even run Photoshop. I know I need to upgrade now because I have a 3D animation class next year. My teacher already told me we won't be doing any modeling/rigging in the class, but I know how to do some of that and want to make animations with my own assets. I know I will have to spend a lot of time on it out of class, but my university doesn't even give us access to the room with the Mac Studios in it outside of our designated class time of 6 hours a week so I think it's time for me to just buy a new computer so I can continue making 2D animations as well.

I'm leaning towards a Macbook Pro right now. I don't really like Macs because I don't like how restrictive the system is about what you can download and customize. But I know Adobe software just runs better and is optimized for Apple, I do all my assets on my iPad already, and it seems like the M5 significantly outperforms Nvidia chips anyways. I am just wondering what laptops other animators use, and what their experience is with Macbook Pro performance for this kind of stuff before I drop 2 grand on a computer.

I have had an Inspiron 14 with 8 GB of ram and a Ryzen Graphics card for the last 6 years. I bought it used and it has had surprisingly good longevity, its speed has not really declined at all since I got it.

However, I really need a computer with better processing capabilities because this one really struggles to run Adobe software, and because I do pretty intense stuff in it (keyframe animation and a lot of rotoscoping) and have a 3D animation class next semester it's just not going to cut it anymore.

I was thinking of just getting an Inspiron plus with a GPU and more Ram since this one has lasted me so long without any decline, but I'm not really sure if Inspirons are known for their good processing capabilities?