Three Things That Will Make Your Flame Shots Look Visibly Better When You Get Stuck

I set out with a vague plan. I started by stringing together some expressions and slipping their sync to try and create some kind of visual cohesion. The first render looks nice, but the timing doesn’t flow. Frustrated, but out of time, I had to call it done. And sometimes that’s just how it goes.

Forget it & Work on something else

Two days later, I took a peek. It was curiosity rather than a game plan. I was struck by the ‘obvious-ness’ of how I had got tangled. ‘The Science’ says that your brain carries on solving problems when you stop working on them — and that seems to be true; sometimes the last place you will solve a shot is at your desk. Forget it completely. When you come back, you’re just better.

Build it again - it’s never really from the start

I’m a big fan of starting over, often in part. The rebuild is fast, includes what you learned & adds new stuff. This time I got unexpected playback improvements on my build; just a better view really, more scrollable. I remember thinking, ‘Ah now I can see!’ I was able the slip the timings easily → it’s why the squares now move in a flock.

Train Your Ai on the User Docs

I love this one → secret weapon. Instruction manuals aren’t usually where you go for creative problem solving. There’s a bit of work to get set up. First, find all your user docs on the web. Some are easy, others hidden. Test some web scraping tools & download extensions, then you’ll probably have to break them up & reformat them. Point your Ai tools at the user docs. This eliminates Ai general knowledge. Instead, you get pure questioning & reasoning, it’s like a hot debate direct with the dev team. It often ends with new angles, new methods & new results.

With Flame knowledge amplified, I choose better expressions, which made it much more flowy & smooth. Have a look!..