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Mike McCarthy, not McArthur. Off LinkedIn (I don't have it, this was public).

Bro, 2 weeks on a sketch? Ain't no way. I'm not a professional artist... but I can't even imagine my unbelievably slow-ass taking that long, man. This guy, huh

I feel like this explains to me a lot about Molyneux, if he thinks directing a project means just having everyone guess randomly until he likes something.

i will say, being super vague and then telling a talented person who tried their best with your vague direction that what they did was all wrong sounds EXTREMELY ON BRAND from what i have heard about working with peter

Seems like AI is great for weeding out the worst possible clients

It sounds like he has the need to be the smartest person in the room, and that's such a big driver of corporate dysfunction

literally this guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=COCm...

Probably pulled him off whatever actual job he was doing so he had to do it in bits and pieces.

'cause if it's ANYTHING like my work for corporate clients which is quite a lot less subjective, I always spent more time in meetings alone, before redoing work for middlemen who won't use it, than actually doing the work that's needed.

I mean, the artists I've commissioned for stuff work pretty damn fast in my opinion but even my uninformed ass would never think it'd take 2 weeks for a single character sketch with some descriptions. That's, like... a day or two tops if you're busy with a bunch of other stuff.

Sounds like he is an 'ideas guy' in the derogatory sense When i have an idea for a game the VERY first thing i do is start making extensive notes about what will be tracked (data) & what will appear in the game & how it all can communicate with each other

Asking my concept artist to draw the right rock

I didn't know where this was going, and thought it was going to be about how a collaborator will ask you questions to pull the idea from you and help you solidify your vague mental image. How the magic of human collaboration is that it helps you discover things you wouldn't think of alone. But no.

TWO WEEKS????

dude says a lot of words just to say "i hate employees"

Yeah this absolutely tracks. He’s really quite friendly but dude has whatever the opposite of media training is.

we asked someone once what it was like working with peter molyneux and they just laughed.

I am trying to avoid spamming this but making sure you see it.

oh my god as if I wasn't already annoyed enough on his behalf, he didn't even get the NAME right???

Mike, probably: O god, here goes Molyneux again with one of his crazy ideas. Big name, so I'll better entertain him. Alright back to actual work. *2 weeks later* O shjt, I promised Molyneux that sketch. Let me just sketch something in my coffee break.

also part of this whole process is "we're going to iterate on it, I like THIS part but maybe THIS part isn't what I had in mind" and the artist either tries something else or meets you in the middle how is that not fun for these guys?

If I'm not distracted by other work (programming mainly) and chores, I can turn out a basic sketch of one figure under one day. More experienced artists can turn out whole comic pages in one day.

It's so far up there, it's some how coming out his own mouth.

He'd have to admit to himself he might ever be wrong about something So i expect not

Any length of time between depending on someone's work and taking the credit just feels like eternity to him.

are you implying that this man may not be good at project management what could possibly give you the impression that Peter Molyneux is not good at that

I honestly don't know how Molyneux can even give this kind of interview. It's obvious he's got brain damage from huffing his own farts for decades

*Molyneux sorry, didn’t mean to spell his name wrong. I just have never gotten over that rock paper shotgun interview which is one of the whiniest things I’ve ever read in my entire life.

And no human concept artist would accept such a vague brief. They’d ask more, and get it sorted out in minutes.

it's like the opposite of Angelo Badalamenti's story about creating the soundtrack for Twin Peaks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eq...

I hope that you find a better place next too

I think something about the human soul is that if you get a bunch of people in a room and tell them 'we are making disposable trash, nobody get any ideas!' somebody will inevitably try to make Art anyway. There are people who think that's a bug.

Being an adult is learning that every every big name I knew in gaming from the west is just the shittiest person. I say this as a Fable and before that Ultima enjoyer.

Probs because they are actually good at their jobs, must feel like perpetually losing face

Also did he just not have more regular meetings with his creative team to review work? Are they just working to his schedule? Christ this guy has always been an unaware twit.

Once more, I contemplate twin wrist tattoos: 'Commerce' on my right - 'Art' on my left. May reduce that to '$' on my right and a crossed pen / brush on my left.