Getting There

I had the most wonderful moment today, and it was due to this project. So often, then I work on a long term piece I get really down. I reach a point - usually around midway - when my enthusiasm, my artistic ability, and my resolve all come crashing down. I tend to freak out, drop the project, be miserable, and sulk for a while. Eventually (from weeks to hours depending on the deadline) I eventually come back to whatever I've been working on and realize that it's not that bad. In fact, usually with just a little work the piece will actually impress me, and I'll be stunned at what I have achieved.

I had that moment just a little while ago.

I have been grinding away on this project from quite some time now. Rushing to meet deadlines, not being entirely happy with what I have been doing, and getting ground down by it. But today, when I put in the new pieces of animation, fixed some old problems, and played everything out, I was impressed with the final output. Now, don't get me wrong. It's not perfect. It needs the right music, the right sound effects, cleaned up animation, and a some editing - but - it really is starting to look right. Right in the way that I had originally envisioned the piece. That is something that has always impressed me, that I can actually get the images out of my head and accurately reproduce them in a medium that can be shared with other.

I really feel like I accomplished something today.

So, more animating. I have to find time to work on the background and animations for the wharehouse scene - I think a quick and dirty build of a set in 3D is in order for this weekend to see if it will work better than one rendered by hand. More work on the clock, which I'm REALLY becoming happy with. And everything else...

It's getting there. It is really getting there. Stay tuned.