Interview with Daz Artist Sickleyield
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Hey Daz users,
Daz 3D recently interviewed Daz Artist Sickleyield and learned tons about her artistic processes, aesthetic preferences, and how she makes the amazing products she does.
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Yay, SickleYield. Thank you for all the tutorials and resources in addition to the wonderful products. You are a great treasure in the 3D community. Wishing you blessings and success.
questions not answered.. who is he real person?
Did you mean questions not asked? Yes she's a real person.
that i figure, real, but in real life, who is this person? name, etc etc ..
Why would you need to know that, not everybody wants to expose themselves on the internet
Yesterday, on another site, i read a interview to a PA that consisted of only TWO questions... no joke just that. I was like, is this the article? where is the rest?
Thank you DAZ for a nice interview. And also thx to Sickleyield.
Particularly Sickleyield, who had this to say:
”I’m a major introvert, and I have depression and anxiety, so direct human interaction is often a challenge for me — I don’t really enjoy crowds or loud noises, and I’m very much not a people person, often happiest hiding alone in my little cave of an office.”
So why would a person like that want to reveal their identity?
Well, it depends on how you view "real person"...
Few people realize the harsh conditions that content creators and their clones face... content mine collapses, rabid content gnomes and the ever looming specter of content radiation... Due to the dangerous and exhausting nature of 3D content creation, most Published Artists don't last very long toiling in the content mines... usually the "Artists" you are familiar with are fifth or sixth generation clones of the original artist who long ago crumbled to dust.
Are clones real people? Well... if you whack them with a frozen herring do they not cry? What is "real" anyway? Is it the manifestation of a material body or the embodiment of "keeping it real"... reality is often a fleeting glimmer in the mind of the beholder, so who are any of us to say...?
To make matters more confusing, I believe I read somewhere that due to problems with long term cloning (extra limbs, tentacles, spontaneous clone implosions, mutant superpowers, etc...), DAZ was working on a system to download the brains of published artists in cybernetic bodies... these CAs (Cybernetic Artists) would function much better, last longer and be 27% less likely to go mad and run amuck mauling innocent civilians... well, provided they were given the necessary tune up, oil change and had their limbs rotated every 10,000 miles.
Whether or not they have already implemented the CA program, I'm not aware, but the issue of whether the person is real or not is more of a personal or spiritual question best answered by the artist, clone or cyborg themselves.
Heck... I'm not even sure I'm real... for that matter are any of us real?
While we have her attention, Can she make a blindfold for the tied up set?
I could've sworn I'd already done this. Just the gag, apparently! I'm working on a tying/untying set now that my new machine is up, maybe I can work one into that!
As for the question re: who I am, I normally don't give out my real name, but here's what I look like, a large 38-year-old Irish/Norwegian-American woman with very short hair. This is my new workstation I just finished building with my new monitors! The reason my hair looks like it was buzzed with a weed whacker is that I'm cutting it myself until social distancing is officially over in my state (we've had a lot of cases here). When it's safe to go back to the stylist I'll probably go back to having short bangs, but I'm pretty committed to the Late Stage Ripley.
Who I am as a person? I'm a Bible scholar and Christian (that may surprise some of you, but I didn't say I was a conservative one). I vote moderate for an American. My parents live with and are partly supported by me (as much as they allow, haha), and I'm very close to my sisters who live a mile away, Fuseling and our youngest who is an attorney. I'm single and will probably remain single; I get along fine with both sexes, in person and online, but I just don't go out much to where I would meet someone. I speak moderately decent Spanish and I love talking to people from all walks of life in my Discord roleplaying stuff (I love Warhammer 40k and Elder Scrolls and am a recreational writer, in case it wasn't clear what a HUGE NERD I am). I play a lot of classic games (currently Brutal Doom, Doom 2016, and Morrowind) and I love to go to the movies (when that's okay again).
I have two cats that are utterly spoiled, Misumena and Imhotep. Pics of them follow.
Misu is in the box and Imhotep is judging me for callously working when it is his dinner time. (That's my internet laptop.)
Yes that is a 'meaningful' look all right ;-)
And, despite what you claim, you have a very pleasnat speaking voice - unless you arranged an overdub of the video tutorial I watched a while ago!
Haha, no, that's my voice. Thanks. :D
Lovely of you to share those details, SickleYield. I share some similar issues to do with lifelong depression, general and social anxiety although I'm quite comfortable with two or three people. I tend to spend a lot of time alone too. Your tutorials have helped me over the years and I feel that I probably have not expressed the gratitude you deserve - so thank you.
You're so welcome!
You don't have to be depressed or anxious to be a freelance digital artist, but it sure seems not to hurt. At least, I've noted a nonzero correlation between meds and being one of my fellow Top 30's. A lot of us get into jobs like this because we're in some way antisocial!
thank you very much
I too, am pretty introverted and shy. I've worked my way out of it to some extent, more from necessity than desire. I spend way too much time buried in internet , Facebook, and here. ... being around real people makes me a little nutty. I find it very difficult to walk up to somebody at a party or social event, so stay away from them.
Thank you again. It is most appreciated. I just like to know who people are, especially creative people. What makes them who they are. It was an innocent question. That is one thing i dislike on the internet, so many need to jump down your throat at every post. It makes me just want to stay away, and that statmeent just gives some a chance to say..then stay away.
Much love to you.
It is Super nice getting to know you (finally)! Love the hair
Yay, hello and hola Sickleyield and cats
Adding my thanks for the wonderful tutorials, without which my products would have only static doors and so forth.
Hi SY, nice to meet you. Enjoyed reading interview. Thanks for wonderful products and tutorials.
"I'm cutting it myself until social distancing is officially over"
Personally, I'm just letting mine grow. I'm pretending its 1967. (No, I won't post pictures - nobody wants to see a long-haired 70 year old).
As for your identity, its more than enough to know that there are people like you out there, girl.
Nice to meet you. Don't you wish you could just pop on youfavorite hair and adjust a few morphs like in daz? I have 3 cats. They are not at all spoiled. They even let me live in their house and sleep in their bed. IIf you don't mind my asking, is Daz PA your main job or a sideline.
Thanks sickleyield for the jockey silks & other great products. Those silks when I saw them I was like, "Are you kidding me?" I bought them straight off before they could be removed or something!
SY, your tutorial on canvasses got me started on a whole new approach to rendering, and I'll always be grateful. Thank you!
+1 thanks SickleYield for all the great products and tutorials.
Hope you stay healthy during these virustimes SickleYield. Alway like your stuff!
@SickleYield " Imhotep is judging me for callously working when it is his dinner time. "
As a lifelong cat owner myself, we both know cats are always juding us.
Imhotep bears a strong resemblance to my Pixel (named after the Heinlein story).
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Well it's definitely encouraging to see how someone with a somewhat comparable personality and comparable interests manages to be successful, so thank you. Daggerfall > Morrowind though
And for those who don't believe Sickleyield is an introvert, because she is so actively chatting, posting and making awesome tutorials between all her products: online socialization is totally uncomparable to real life socialization. Online, you don't have to worry about your posture or where to put your hands or whatever, don't have to suffer inquiring stares, can just yell some explitive without hurting anyone (because you just won't type it out), can say "no" without suffering the disappointed eyes.