Future Weaponry Plan(s)

Given Max’s usual flare, I’m to make it obvious that his weapons are meant to mirror just that. For example, his explosive Herald of War, a great-sword with a built-in motor for devastating swings. Or a pencil. Anyway, I’ve been running a little dry on clever ideas, but asked one of my closest friends whom I love dearly, and he promptly came up with this:

The sword resembles the one in the picture, but can split vertically to make to thinner, one-hooked blades. Imbued with magic from the town’s Shaman (who puts magic on all his other weapons), the split can be done manually or remotely via chant. This split is extremely forceful, and can dislocate the average human’s shoulders if gripping the sword(s) while they split. It must be used carefully, unless you’re bold enough like Max to use the force as a weapon. One instance of this includes splitting the sword after the conjoined blade has been shoved into one’s chest. I’ll let your imagination fill in the rest.

Re-did this picture because I was bored, but used Nick instead of the no longer existing OC, Felix.

The line in his language translates you “Luna curses you!”, and is a common curse in Grodot. I don’t remember what the old one said, I think it was “dang it!” or smth.

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.