Ben hier in gerold. De man die me hierbij geholpen heeft onrechtstreeks is Warren Silberstein waarvoor dank ! Dat ik erna zo verslaafd aan geworden ben nooit gedacht. Wat ik doe en probeer , ok neem hier en daar dingen over klopt . Soms nog iets teveel. Maar probeer wel altijd een achtergrond te nemen naar mijn idee kleur. Aangevuld soms met nieuwe instrumenten , wiskundige dingen. En nu dingen zoekend zo abstract mogelijk en combinaties samen brengen. En hier zitten een hoop kleppers waarmee ik al heel veel heb kunnen doen , en dat en sommige reacties wat je krijgt is het leuk om hiermee verder te doen.
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Nice question! I think, your taste reveals your essence, inspiration keeps it alive, and design gives it form.
How to explore this? reflect on what moves you, and turn it into your own voice (face). I think that is the best way.
And remember, it’s only design, not open-heart surgery.
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I am not a quantity guy. I sometimes spend up to two weeks from idea to production creating all the elements for a face (mostly in Adobe illustrator/Photoshop, no AI for me), trying tings out and re-designing until I get what I am going for. I have no problem re-using elements from previous designs and who doesn’t do that? I know I am only going to be a low-yield (high quality) guy as I cannot possibly crank out the amount of stuff some designers do. Clearly there is more behind some designers than just one person. If you factor in all the time designing, building, publishing, and finally promoting…well, it’s a lot for one person to do. Yes, you can streamline things like making templates for your social media stuff, having code snippets for various features and function organized and at the ready, and maybe your own “parts store” of elements, fonts, hands, etc as well. That’s what I do anyway. But yeah, I think a lot of designers have a team, especially when they refer to themselves as “we” or “us”. But hey, depending on how things go…I might be hiring. 
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I’m not aware of any teams, unless that is the case with some of the newer pro users. Some people use the “we” to make it appear as if they are a “company”. (That always reminds me of a nurse telling a patient that it is time to take “our” pill.) Yes, AI has changed things to some extent. It is easy to spot those as well as the ChatGPT descriptions (ugh!). I’ve used AI images for some elements, but per Facer’s guidelines adapt it to my specifications. In many cases creating something that blends with the AI generated elements ends up taking longer than it would if I painted those elements myself. To answer your question, my inspiration sometimes comes from follower requests. If I feel that I can accommodate those requests, I do. Otherwise, the bottom line is always to create what you like. By doing that your own style can evolve.
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There was once someone who introduced himself and said he was part of Vienna Studios. That would suggest there is a group…:
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Hello Tom!
Yes, at that time we were something like a “group” of people who tried to create something together… We had a feeling that it would be better for us… We still know each other and communicate with each other, even if the original idea has changed a bit… Nothing that I wrote there at that time was a fiction…
https://www.viennastudios.com/team/
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Wow!!! This community is really amazing, and supportive!!! I asked this same question on the Samsung Dev Forum, it got 19 views, and ZERO replies.
Incredibly inspiring!!!
I read everyone’s replies, but I want to re-read and comment on each.
Thank you so much everyone, you’re great!!!
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We’re a friendly bunch sharing as much as we can. There are many discussions in this community regarding getting started, motivation, tools, pros and cons of applications, etc… It’s all just normal for us. Sometimes the new members don’t realize that. You learn and you pay it forward. That’s the community way. 
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I don’t know where to place this question. I recently designed a planetary watch where all the planets move around the sun. I looked up each planet’s speed and had to adapt by moving the decimal point one place to the left. The watch face looks great for me, but the problem I’m having is every once in a moment the planets seem to all meet at s straight line about two o’clock and start all over again. How do I stop the loop that I did not set as a loop?.
gfedman, facer name, and watch face Earth 2.0
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@gwical as you are using #DWFSS# as your timer it counts 0 to 360 every minute . So at the minute it resets to zero . If you used factors of 2 3 4 6 8 which divide into 369 comfortably you will not get a jump . So we use the timer #DNOW# which is the UNIX Epoch timer and counts in milliseconds continuously till 2038 some time . Obviously any factor of that will not jump . try divide it by a large factor and see what it does . I am not familiar with the Maths of the planet rotations . But judging by the work you have done already you will crack it yourself . I guess once you have the earth running nicly you scale the rest off it .
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@russellcresser, you beat me to it!
Yes better to use DNOW
Details about DNOW and how to break it down (you would want Nr. 4):
https://community.facer.io/t/analysis-of-new-dnow-tag/24556
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@gwical . Here is a nice Orrary by Mike O’Day .
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I am not sure how it runs . You could always ask him . He might have even said how somewher in the Archives .
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Claude knows how to create an heliocentric orrery
https://claude.ai/share/90bce2d1-96cf-4bad-959a-ede76c335228
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I note with intrest that those instructions flag #DWE# as the epoch timer . That is the Facer Wake timer set to Zero at wake from sleep or AOD . Most will probably not want an actual orrary but want to see some rotation when the look at it . In some way it is more fun to see the relevant speeds than actual positions . I am sure someone can bend #DNOW# to work with that data . Thanks for Posting that @jason.clarke.uk .
Ai doesnt always get it right. But given 1 sentence as a prompt it gets the mind thinking.
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I think the formula structures ar good . I will test it soon . Having the orbit data is very helpful . The only thing that is missing is a guess at the pixel sizes of the planets .
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I just did a quick test I think ((#DNOW#)/1000) is a good substitute for #DWE# .
As I said I think it needs speeding up to be entertaining rather than educational .
Always an interesting topic!
My process has evolved over the years. I’ve always done everything in photoshop and use the Facer creator only for assembly, coding and whatever needed text layers. Over the years I’ve built a pretty large library of “parts”, starter templates, photoshop actions, and layer styles that can make the design process much more efficient then in the early days. And now with AI it’s fun to create elements for things that my own drawing skills wouldn’t allow me to do. But the process underneath it all is still basically the same. I can always conceive a general idea, but rarely do I imagine the final look from the start. No matter what style I’m digging into, I rely on seeing something on the screen and then I can start to visualize what comes next. So with say an analog realistic style face, I can start with the base dial itself, give it some texture and lighting, then immediately it starts to suggest something to me. each element I add then brings a final concept more and more into focus. Same is true with something that uses AI art elements. Once I get something on the screen a pathway begins to emerge. I think it’s a little bit like packing the car for a long trip, you see the space you have to work with, and you know all the stuff you’ve got to put in there, but it’s not until you actually place one or two of those first big objects in the back of the car that you can start to visualize how it’s all going to fit 
speaking of AI… people, don’t be lazy with AI. It’s a fantastic tool that can open all kinds of new creative pathways, but you still have to put in the work to design and edit and create something from it.
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I love this analogy!!! I guess I’m the same way, as many others are likely as well.
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I also get inspired by other creators, as well as actual watches (not smart watches).
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