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🪵 Revenant Log 🪵
2024-09-02 08:34:19 UTC Haven’t animated an actual animation in nearly a year, all of it has just been practice or unfinished stuff I was too lazy to do. If I replace the cubes with some proper environment, this would be nice for a “cinematic short”
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No additional info, just yappingCrazy how I haven’t made any “cinematic animations” or any finished projects in a year. It’s like the better I get at animation, the worse it is for me to make things quickly and rile up motivation
I’m still in a very early youth, and even it feels like I just improve the more I grow older, I don’t know why. If you see my first ever post, I posted an old animation from maybe a month at the time
I used to think thats the best I could get with animation
I got better, and with that came dismotivation
A part of my dismotivation with animation comes from this weird thing I have, where I feel like I can’t animate something. I’m used to having trashy animations, most of my time spent animating was me making shitty stuff. I’ve only started improving now in the past maybe 7 months. It feels like all my good animations are “luck” and I’m still a bad animator. Sometimes it would feel that way, when I try to get a result, and completely fail to get it but end up with something that accidentally looks good. I don’t have that anymore, I finally learnt how to properly animate. Yet a part of me still feels like I’m still bad.
I always feel like I can’t animate this, or I can’t animate that, and when I actually do animate this and that, I’m perfectly animating things just fine, with incredible details and smooth movements.
I feel like this is the only time I’ve animated without slacking, being lazy, or anything. And, this only took me 25-30 minutes.
I feel like no matter how much I pour out into these comments, no matter how much I tell myself I’ve gotten good, no matter how much I realize I can make good results, I’m always gonna be lazy and worried of failing at my favorite thing to do.
Honestly, I’ve kinda been there when I used to animate. I always felt like my animations weren’t good enough and I’d also be very lazy about them, my issue stemmed from setting up too much expectations from my animations
I will say, your animations definitely are not bad and you definitely are good. These are not animations the typical sticknoder could just whip up, so definitely be proud of that. As for being demotivated/lazy, sometimes, you just need to begrudgingly push yourself through the initial steps and sometimes motivation will start to come to you
My advice isn’t the best but I thought I might as well give some
I accidentally said “and you definitely are not good” in my initial comment, I meant to say you are good my bad-
Thanks for the advice, man.
I’m actually kind of in the mood to animate right now. If I post anything in the next 3 days, I should right now let you know your words are the reason of it 👍
lowkey i wanna try this, i love the leg physics in this one and i wanna practice physics so this seems perfect
thanks for giving me the idea!
no problem