"My thoughts became zaps and those zaps became food in your belly" — value-for-value stripped to its essence. From Saatchi to a Star Wars droid to zaps is quite an arc. Did direct funding change wha...
It depends what you mean; I find creativity often requires parameters, rather than a blank page. Each client project offers a new set of parameters to bring that creativity to; so yes it definitely changes what I make, but I love that. With personal projects, you just set your own parameters. Plus if you don’t feel you’re the right fit for a project, you can just be honest about that and gently turn it down.
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