What do Vue folk do when faced with uninspiration and the prospect of becoming bored with their craft? 

What do you do when you can't think of what to do?

Curious...

M

I do something different.
If I had been doing landscapes, I do a character driven image. Or vice-versa.
If I had been doing mountains, I do an ocean. Or vice-versa.
The key is diversity. With diversity, one never gets bored. :-)

What do you do when uninspired?

Play with Vue! Sorry, couldn't resist this joke. But indeed, sometimes I just start Vue to play a bit. Try things out, without the intension to create a new masterpiece.

But mostly I do something different. Listen to music, drinking tea, playing some easy computer games (like Mahjong or Solitaire). Then i look what others are doing to get some inspiration from other artwork (I have a compilation of images, photos etc that i collect for uninspired moments). Last but not least I simply look through my collections to fall over something I forgot that gives me then sometimes a sort of starting point for a new image.

I have had that problem many times lately, I feel a lot of what I want to do has already been done usually far better than I could do anyway. 

So have gone back to playing games for a bit, I stop using Vue for a little while and then come back to it with a fresh mind. Sometimes stepping back and doing something else completely different is whats needed. 

Or I sometimes watch films like Final Fantasy :Advent Children, not for the story but for the computer graphics, sometimes something I see inspires me to do something.

Jon

I usually start with a geekatplay tutorial and see where it leads me, or I go play with another software for awhile. Zbrush is always good for a challenge. Another thing I do is find a digital contest to enter, then the subject and potential sources of inspiration are often given

Good luck : )

I do the same thing. I go learn something new. Even if you are a guru theres always some neat information in tutorials. OR see something you like online, for me it is Bob Ross galleries, theres always inspiration in other peoples work. :D

If I'm feeling a little Vue-stale I get my sewing machine out and make some pretties - usually with frills or lace edgings.

A change is as good as a rest....as they say

 I frequently feel uninspired these days and I just do something totally unrelated until the mood returns. I find the worst thing I can do is to try and force an image as it invariably ends up in the trash.

Watch Videogame trailers, practice modelling, watch internet pr0n (just kidding,) do geekatplay tutorials for about the millionth time :)

Actually, the last image in my gallery was a kind of response to render block - I just thought I'd do something totally out of the ordinary (for me anyway) and it seems to have worked

 Go for a run or bike ride & just let my mind wonder: I find it helps a lot to get outside and re-calibrate my problems/thinking against of the magnitude of nature & the tide of time........more often than not, my mind will wonder off only to return to inspiration, or an alternative solution to a problem, by some unpredictable series of bizarrely interconnected 'mental meanders'.

HI....:)
For me it is mostly music, all those soundscape artists like Patrick O'Hearn,  Steve Roach, Dead Can Dance or Tangerine Dream, on headphones  in the night help me usually to start something new or explore some Vue features I've never tried before...but relaxing outdoors is maybe better and  more healthy for sure :)

I listen to music and look around at the world and see what's going on.  Sometimes it's positive other times, well you know my reputation isn't built on optimism but every now and again.  Oh and sometimes dreams will play a big role in inspiration.

I have the opposite problem. I have too many ideas of illustrations and would need several lives to complete them all, as well as learning a lot of new skills. I need to priorize them, note my ideas, make some sketches and more generally be serious about it or the ideas will queue on forever.

I get my ideas from novels, music, paintings, photographs. I also end up playing with models I have purchased or downloaded, or with Geocontrol, or with Vue itself.
I think novels and music are the good sources of inspiration. I always think of how I would illustrate a scene in a novel or a song.

I like these words of Kai Krause:
*Spend your life in the eternal bliss of always having something to hope for, something to wait for, plans not realized, dreams not come true…. Make sure you have new points on the horizon, that you purposely create. And at the same time, relive your memories, uphold and cherish them, keep them alive and share them, talk about them.

Make plans and take pictures.*

Spend an hour here : http://www.darkroastedblend.com/

Ask folk for something they want made, so you have a goal as inspiration.

playegames, music, read, or make tutorials ;)

Quote - HI....:)
For me it is mostly music, all those soundscape artists like Patrick O'Hearn,  Steve Roach, Dead Can Dance or Tangerine Dream, on headphones  in the night help me usually to start something new or explore some Vue features I've never tried before...but relaxing outdoors is maybe better and  more healthy for sure :)

If you like those, you might also like Solar Fields (a lot of his stuff is on emusic) ...

Basically, something totally different. If the weather's rotten, then maybe playing with Vue trying things out that are totally different from what I normally do, but if the weather is even a little bit ok, then out into the garden and work - it's never finished, so there's always something to do :-) - after a couple of hours of (for example) weeding, it's as if my "fixed disk" has been newly formatted. Music is also good, style depends on mood - as the saying goes, "there are only two types of music - good and bad" - sometimes that means something classical, and sometimes it means heay metal (loud), etc... Generally, though, working in the garden is my favourite way, the hunger to do something with Vue then just comes along by itself... 

I think I know how you feel, even though I've got loads still to learn, I feel a bit fed up with sitting in front of a computer at times and I don't feel terribly motivated at present. The time of year doesn't help either - I'm a bit fed up of the cold and could do to get out, play some golf or something and just relax and sometimes I think that's just what some people need sometimes - just a bit of a break.
If however, I want to do something but I'm no too sure what I like to have a look at this site;  http://www.art.co.uk/asp/default.asp
I just find there's so much there you can find something to either give you ideas or if you want to, to recreate your own way.

Hey man, if worse comes to worse you can always spark a doobie(;

Um, Doobie Brothers i mean of course...in this sensitive age :D

Quote - What do Vue folk do when faced with uninspiration and the prospect of becoming bored with their craft? 

What do you do when you can't think of what to do?

Curious...

M

I have a library of concept art books that I'll look through from time to time.