From: "Mike Abbott" Received: from outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk ([95.142.156.253] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.1.0) with ESMTPS id 7449198 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 19:50:17 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.101] (unknown [82.69.32.195]) (Authenticated sender: mda@vantagegraphics.co.uk) by outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2F39C221BB195 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:54:10 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [AE] getting out of a rut To: After Effects Mail List References: Message-ID: <2452c7dd-c48e-4c66-bc54-15917fded6b5@vantagegraphics.co.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:54:07 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US On 14/10/2019 18:08, Cary Spenser wrote: > All - > Been creating AE since v3. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised that my > work is looking repetitive after 23 years. Pretty embarrassed about it > after doing a retrospective of the last 5 years. IT ALL LOOKS THE > SAME!  ;-) > What to other do to get a fresh breath of creative juice, to break out > of the old patterns? You could look through the other end of the telescope and be happy - knowing you have a very clearly defined style!  : ) Mike A