Reinventing the wheel.

Morning TD fans, lets have a look into my thought process and my logic. I know like blood from a stone right.

    Now that I am a person who blogs I might as well go ape shit and post a bunch of stuff in the same day. Lets start with some of my thoughts about the term, reinventing the wheel.

    In my not so humble opinion you cannot reinvent something that is already at its apex you can only make it crappier. The wheel is, at its core functionality, already stripped down to a perfectly working system. Sure you can add rubber but its still a circle, its still a wheel, it still functions the same as every other wheel out there, just with rubber. My point is you can't reinvent the wheel, only upgrade the way it does its core function which is to roll. There we go, that's my logic when it comes to that expression. A useless argument in  the grand scheme of things but its still how I feel. Now on to scripts.

    Scripts are written for many reasons, from the need to automate a repetitive or tedious task to adding functionality that a software suite does not offer. Either way your ass is writing a script because the program just can't do it by itself. Now there are many scripts already written and available from websites like creative crash for you to use. However, you have probably run into this at some point were the script is either broken for some reason or does not work as you expected. Which ever reason this script does not work for you and this is were I say, okay fine I'm just going to re-write my own version of the script. I figure if they can do It so can I. So this brings us back to reinventing the wheel.

    My curse is I will fixate on finding a way to make something better, cleaner, faster and simpler. This is usually involves me figuring out the base effect I wanted and rebuilding from there. I do it with scripts I do it with rig setups. I know your not supposed to do it all the time but I guess the excuse is that I am creating my own style for my art of rigging. Unfortunately its usually a thankless process and I often hear, well why not use this setup its already a standard? Well to be honest a lot of the setups that are standard are out dated or have been in need upgrading to meet the updated software. 

  Either way I think I have spouted enough for this one. My next blog post will probably be me talking about the 30 some odd scripts I have created to speed up my rigging workflows.

   See you next time, same bat time, same bat channel.