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+1 Placedarms

placdarms said
Thank you guys for standing up on behalf of reviewers. Some time ago a thread like this would escalate into riot when everyone would be asking the same thing and all would be frustrated. I’m glad to see that authors have grown and have understood the way things work.

I can speak for myself. When the file is hopeless I usually stick to really short and standard rejection message. Obviously it’s not worth spending any more time on it.

If the file is bad, but i see that there are things that would be worth pointing out so author could learn from past mistakes and create better project in future – I usually try to list out the problems.

If file is fairly good with some minor problems I alway list out the problems and sometimes even come up with suggestions. Even as detailed as colors, effects, animations etc. those files usually got soft-rejected and can easily be fixed and resubmitted.

I’m not pointing fingers here, but if some of you got really short message that didn’t tell much and if it was from me – probably there is a huge potential for you to grow.

+5

Thank you placdarms for rejecting my first 3 projects, i get really warm and fuzzy on mention of your name .

VFXGenesis said
Thank you placdarms for rejecting my first 3 projects, i get really warm and fuzzy on mention of your name .

I got first two projects approved, then two rejected. I was a little mad at placdarms, but then I cooled down and made something new and it got approved. For my every item, he was reviewer, and both times he rejected my files, he explained in several long sentences. I belive that those rejections made me do good project, and not just another just-to-be-approved project. I realize now that those two files wouldn’t be that great looking in my future-to-be-builded Videohive portfolio. All of the top autors curently, survived same rejections, and they kept coming back. Well, as I said, they are now on top. I’m sure you’ll make lots of great projects in times to come, just don’t give up.

I believe that every good author have rejected files in the past. My start at VH was extremely bad.
If my rubbish was accepted then, I would deleted it for sure from my portfolio
Talent is important about 10% maybe, and 90% is persistence to try to make every new project better than previous.
Reviewer should not write detailed reasons for rejections, but maybe only short suggestion for particular author’s weakness: work with keyframes, color matching, and other often newbie’s mistakes.

Friendly advice to all new motion designers. Read. Read books on design, composition, colors, animation principles, typography…

EFEKT_Studio said
Friendly advice to all new motion designers. Read. Read books on design, composition, colors, animation principles, typography…

You are so right!

placdarms said
Thank you guys for standing up on behalf of reviewers. Some time ago a thread like this would escalate into riot when everyone would be asking the same thing and all would be frustrated. I’m glad to see that authors have grown and have understood the way things work.

I can speak for myself. When the file is hopeless I usually stick to really short and standard rejection message. Obviously it’s not worth spending any more time on it.

If the file is bad, but i see that there are things that would be worth pointing out so author could learn from past mistakes and create better project in future – I usually try to list out the problems.

If file is fairly good with some minor problems I alway list out the problems and sometimes even come up with suggestions. Even as detailed as colors, effects, animations etc. those files usually got soft-rejected and can easily be fixed and resubmitted.

I’m not pointing fingers here, but if some of you got really short message that didn’t tell much and if it was from me – probably there is a huge potential for you to grow.