Good for your friend. That kind of groupthink gets old fast.

Remember that Fincher actually said the show was too expensive for the viewership it got. His schedule is busy, sure, but the real problem was the money. Netflix didn't think enough people were watching to justify the cost of making more. That's why it stopped, not just because he was busy. It's a shame because the quality was so high, but they run a business.

Man, that hard round brush trick is a lifesaver. I was doing a sunset last month and the soft airbrush just killed all the depth, made it look like a solid wall of color. Felt exactly like what riley_west was saying about the tie-dye streaks, just a different kind of bad. Switched to a basic round brush, like 20% opacity, and just kept layering light orange over dark red. Took a minute but it finally looked like real light in the sky, not a flat fill.