Square One Newsletter
Robin RuudA free newsletter by Robin Squares about art and design
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 86 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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■1: Beginners are valuable to studios
Beginners: you are valuable
Beginners have always been valuable for studios. You’re cheap, willing to work long hours, and they can shape you to fit their exact pipeline. Ever seen Moneyball? If you are new and your portfolio is good, yo...
■1: Face it, we’re dumb
I’m going to be at Blender-con next week. If you see me, please say hi!
Face it: we’re dumb
I’m provocative in this one. Brace!
Say you meet a girl at a party who is genuinely upset about the future of soap. You ask why. She says real...
■1: The best animation of 2026, and Accepting what’s hard
Blender is actually easy, and other oppressive lies
Is Blender pay-to-win? Looking online, you would think so.
Tutorials say “Blender is actually EASY.” Addons boast their one-click workflow. AI replaces all modeling. Asset libraries ar...
■1: Brick talk, Camera Clone, and The rule of thirds no more
The rule of thirds no more
Let’s put the rule of thirds to bed. It’s obviously wrong. I can’t believe people still teach this. So I’ll prove it doesn’t work, then I’ll try to find out what “working” even means in art, and then I’ll sugge...
■1: Optimize Windows, Bokeh texture, and Shitting on AI
The more we shit on AI, the more it wins
ErikDoesVFX made a cool video where he competes against Higgsfield, an AI company, in making VFX.
Andrew Price said in his newsletter that it’s the first artist vs. AI video that’s actually fair....
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