Switching Projects! (Very Important) 12.10.2018

Okay, okay. Truth time. There's no getting around it - I'm pretty bored with the current project. I've been working on it far too long and I have about 15 other, really exciting ideas that I've been aching to get to.

I tried the new animation workflow to speed up my work and make me more motivated, but it just does not work. I always get sidetracked by something I'd rather be doing, like new models. 

I'm now back to wasting a huge amount of time and the Patreon is turning into a graveyard again. And it's really for no reason.

I've been working on this one project for 10 months now (Jesus it's been that long?? I didn't even realize). And I've only got less than 90 seconds of animation done! While that is acceptable, for an example, 2D artists, I used to work way faster than this!

Yes, half of that is that I switched to Blender, where everything takes more time with a better result. But the other half is this.

I cannot make large projects anymore.

The most exciting things that pop in my head are actually very brief in execution - I really love the concept of short snapshots into my characters' lives.

Modeling the characters, clothes, making a scene well are things I now really look forward to. But spending 10 months on a single project all by myself? I don't think so, especially when most of that time is animation.

In TK17, I used to make 10 minute videos in a couple weeks sometimes. That's because all of the scenes and models were premade, and a lot of the animations were too / I recycled my own animations.

But Blender doesn't have that, and my standards are different now, and some of the janky animations to ease my workload just aren't acceptable to me anymore.

I'm afraid animation just isn't the fun thing it used to be. So I gotta step back from trying to animate very large projects. It clearly just does not work out.

I've been biting more than I could chew this whole year, and I'm sorry. If I realized this earlier and moved on, I could have been posting new, diverse content that you guys could have been enjoying this whole time. Not to say you haven't seen the occasional side projects that I pump out, but they could be even more!

So here's what's next. I want to get into fluid physics. Laurene is gonna jizz right on the lens in a very nasty fashion. I think it's gonna be really hot. That sounds like fun. >:)

As always leave any thoughts in the comments, negative or positive.