What a long haul animation is.
It makes me feel slightly better when I hear how long other independent shorts
have taken: 8 years, 13 years, 7 years. After the first long break I have had from
Creamers in a couple of years I sat down in front of my 50,000 plus files and
really had to dig deep to open them up. There is so much energy involved in just
keeping track of it all. Despite the fact that I dish out the KISS principle to
every other artist/student I know, I have definitely NOT applied it to myself. I am my
own worst enemy and all that. Why make it simple when you can make it complicated. Its a tired old cliche but amazingly enduring.
Still I am chewing away and have dropped an entire sequence
thanks to the sage advice of a very talented artist Michael Mueller who is helping me out
when he is not art directing games. So my bunny sequence is on the floor. It
never really did make much sense and was more or less an excuse for me to
animate rabbits. It was supposed to represent that time in the early morning
when you have been working all night and anything and I mean anything can make
you cry – well make me cry and I know I am not totally alone on that one.
Keep
on trucking and try not to nap too much. Ester and I are morphing into one….
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