The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
If someone is trying to skip the struggle - which is the creative job - our machines today, the technology that we have, can help the person, but it is only momentary. On the other hand, if you are creative, you have the skill, and you are hardworking, technology can only make you superior.
Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.
The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.