Small Update, and Ignoring Recent Events

I’m not sure anyone noticed, but I haven’t touched or talked about anything animation-related in a while. Hopefully, that’s done now. If everything I’m dealing with is over like I think, I can get back to stuff. I’m going to start making a bunch of plants from Grodot; flowers, fruits, trees, backgrounds (maybe), etc.

But I’m also uncertain. I’m trying to ignore it, and I want to believe it’s a simple issue I can push away but the more I think about it the less I believe myself. Making one stickfigure at my current skill level takes ages, and drains me completely. I won’t go into it that much but it feels like sometime at the beginning of this year, I lost all energy to do anything. It sucks, but like most of my problems I’m ignoring it. Anyway, I realize that I have to:

1. Make the figure
2. Make Front/Back angles
3a. Make Outfits for them
3b. Repeat #2 for other outfits (Ouch)

For example, I plan to have 3+ outfits for Max. So that’s about 9 figures I have to make, for one character. Doing this for every character? No, I don’t know if I can manage that. I want to hide behind my usual routine of trying to reevaluate my style then pretending to like it for a while before I give up on that, but that’s gotta stop. I do need to get rid of the rust though, so at least for animating small things I’ll continue using my current stuff.

I don’t want this to be too negative of a post, so here have a cat picture.