(WIP) An 8/8 animation that was too big to finish in time, and it's replacement 8/8 "animation" that was also too big to finish in time

I need like, a supervisor to live in my head and just tell me "what the fuck are you doing stop that" sometimes

So, like, I have had this idea for a few weeks of a dumb simple animation to go with gamblecore. The original conceit was to do it as a little bonus thing for Mux/Veni, who currently have a painted piece in queue that is still being blocked out and chipped at (because I haven't stayed on a single project for more than 2 days I guess) That piece directly toys with the idea of using a prey's save files to mess with them- and the constant retries / losing of gamblecore where it all ends in game overs would be fun!!

Then I remembered 8/8 was happening like 5 days ago, and thought to myself "I just need to draw a few reusable fox assets and then a before / after for some guest characters- thats doable!" On paper it was doable sure, but I convinced myself to ignore that I can't deliver in that kind of timeframe. Cutting ahead to the conclusion here- I'm still the problem creating these roadblocks for myself by never learning :x

So I was left with the first three images. A quick setup of the fox doing some dungeoning, and then I would run into a bunch of guest characters of other artists / friends and lose. I realised after a few days this wasn't going to finish in time, and decided to save this for later. There is a non zero chance it gets turned into a simple web game with the help of a friend. I'm ok with that, it'll be neat when it happens

Well I still needed an 8/8 idea and the original joke was still good enough to keep pursuing. I had asked ahead of time on twitter for "really stupid / funny things to lose to" and picked like 8 of the replies to do. All of the more monochrome drawings are from that attempt- and we're all done in a rushed adderall fueled frenzy over 10-12 hours. I got a lot done, but theres like 3 hours until the day is over, I ended up falling asleep from exhaustion at one point, and I just... need to take the day or two to actually finish it instead of forcing it out today.

And now we're here! Hello, hi. This has been my week, mixed in with poking at projects on queue and other sketches for the anims that didnt feel worthwhile enough to add in here. The backup idea should be good to go next week so, theres that. The dice one will be turned into a much cooler idea for everyone to enjoy, and it'll let me set it aside and just go back to doing the stuff I should have been doing from the start >_>

Great job meeeeeee

Oh, also the final .gif of the backup project has gamblecore captioned since I cant upload photos alongside videos on patreon. When its done it'll have all the audio ready, and the animation / cut between panels much less jarring (The bed one is way too busy rn even if its cute, but I was thinking of ending the anim with that one as a good end :>)