This is my last post about this in this thread.
Im pushing myself everyday to do better. I remember there was a time I couldn't animate for the life of me.
That's great, keep doing it.
I'm teaching myself instead of someone actually teaching me. No one has offered help to teach me so its up to me if I really want to do this.
No one taught me either. I didn't go to school or have a tutor to walk me through the principles of animation. I - as an autonomous human being - went out of my way to ask others for critique and to see where I could improve. People won't help you unless you show others that you're willing to improve and that you want their help.
You yourself certainly can't animate at that quality either, and no, no one said you could. You put in effort as well. Has your work improved? Maybe it has. It could certainly be better, that's for sure.
I never compared his skills to mine. Nor is it part of this discussion, but I'll humor you. When KJP, HD88 and others critiqued my work, I took it and tried to improve my animations. I didn't say that "I would let others fix it because I don't want to". We had this discussion before but it was deleted because it went too far off topic.
Trashing Cali about the quality of his animations, giving him "tough love"? Those do not make for improvement. It's kinda annoying and kinda rude. Instead, HELP him if you see things that need to be improved. ACTUALLY help. Show off whatever skill you say you have, and produce some cool content.
I'm giving him "tough love" now because I've told him many times that he can improve and make better animations if he wants to. He's replied time and time again that he won't and that they're fine as is. If you've tried to animate, you know it's not something you can watch a video on and suddenly know. You need to ask for feedback about even the slightest thing. Just ask KJP how many times I've sent him messages to critique my work. For one animation, it took about 50 different iterations to fix a single problem.
Every time he's posted on here, he always waves away my comments on his animations or (even better) people bring my ability up as if it validates anything whatsoever. I know where I started, and I know how far I've come.
I'm sorry it hurts your feelings
that much that I'm one of the few people that isn't praising him like the second messiah.
As I said at the beginning of the post, this is my last post on the matter. You can get one or two posts in per person about this, but afterwards I'll start deleting posts about this.