Dealing with Slumps and the Role of Strategy

Our guest this week is animation and gaming industry veteran Flint Dille! He’s been involved in a wide range of projects from the 80s animated Transformers movie to games like Diablo III and Pokemon GO. We sit down with Flint to find out how artists can use methods valued in game design and writing to take their study routine and education to the next level. Flint shares how you can use familiar concepts familiar to gamers, like grinding for levels, as a form of practice in order to enter a propulsion loop where you feel rewarded and fulfilled while moving forward in the “main quest” of your art journey.

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Show Links (some contain affiliate links):

The Gamesmaster (book) - https://amzn.to/3ye1L0F

Sagard the Barbarian - https://amzn.to/3zc0Wa7

A Line in the Sand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Line_in_the_Sand_(board_game)

Strike Series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_(video_game_series)

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick:_Escape_from_Butcher_Bay

Dead to Rights - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_to_Rights

Uncharted - https://amzn.to/3sEsfak

Ghostbusters The Video Game - https://amzn.to/3y9jdmP

Ingress - https://www.ingress.com/

Pokemon GO - https://pokemongolive.com/en/

DARPA - https://www.darpa.mil/

Caravaggio - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/carvaggio-calling-of-st-matthew-s3e19.jpg

Leonardo da Vinci - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/leonardo-da-vinci-s3e19.jpg

Michelangelo - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/michelangelo-s3e19.jpg

Transformers the Movie (animated) - https://amzn.to/387D5MK

The Dark Knight Returns - https://amzn.to/2Wnffdv

300 (comic) - https://amzn.to/2WlmcMj

Flint Dille 300 character Dilios - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/flint-dille-dilios-s3e19-1.jpg

Paul Gauguin - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/paul-gauguin-s3e19.jpg

Jack Kirby - https://static.proko.com/media/images/stan/jack-kirby-s3e19.jpg

Clapton The Autobiography - https://amzn.to/2WnbmVS

Spacewar! prototype - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!

Avalon Hill games - https://www.avalonhill.com/

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