I don't go on here as much as I used to, made another birthday special

unrelated doodles below, idk what to say. I'm currently taking these muscle relaxers because my body hates me, but I also hate muscle relaxers. I'm verrryyyy tired.

I made a shitpost for this year

Dilly Dally Doo, something.

I drew these on the 2nd of December

I'm currently 2 checkies into chapter 9, and I've finished a few B-sides. Very Very fun.

New pfp, lil mouse doodle of Leopold.

Song art for a song cover

Glados w/ arms picture I found humorous

Just figuring out how to draw them, never finished, but I made a lil animation

I have a Yume Nikki inspired fan game in the works, and I have a plethora of concept art and assets already.

I've been making many art pieces recently, and I love creating but I know that I'm making all this stuff cause I'm upset about something.

I don't have any big drawings finished and I'm a lil bit sad by that. I wanna do something cool before I finish high school.

Not in any paraticular order, but some of these are from months ago

I didn't do much today, I stayed up until probably around 7 and woke up at 9 but I wanted to go back to sleep but I couldn't.

I spent the whole morning working on a storyboard and learning toki pona. I have to start to go back to work again later in the week which kinda sucks but I've been doing this for maybe 3 years now so I'm kinda used to it. I just wanted to focus 100% of my time on my own projects but I haven't been able to do that because of my stupid sleep schedule.

Glad I talked to my friends for a few hours at least.

I did draw some doodles today ofc, so have some lol

School is beating me in the ass right now, gotta get my grades up to passing in 2 weeks.

It's been a month since I've posted that animation too, so I might as well talk about it. I never even deleted the BBT files, I should buy a terabyte to put my junk in.

1; Months Before

I got Fez on July of last year, I finally finished it for myself on December.

I really only got the motivation to play it because of a nostalgia kick, and I was on my winter break. After I finished the whole thing, I was so infatuated with it that I started making a whole document that had all my theories, feelings, a few discoveries, just anything I wanted to put there and I planning to release it to the whole world. Then I decided to only share it with friends, then no one.

I think I was feeling very self conscious or selfish, just wanted to keep it to myself.

During the break, I made an animation in around two days, I think this really kicked off my motivation to animate again since I still like it quite a bit. I always look back on it for inspiration or whatever. (I also think this is still better than the one I made last month, Maybe I'll remake it next year but knowing me, I don't remake anything ever.)

2; End Of March

Another thing I had 'advertised' besides the doc was an animation, I knew I was going to make that no matter what after making the BBT animation. Instead of the 2 weeks I gave myself, I was going to finish it in a month to make it absolutely perfect. That was until I noticed a stream poster flying around the FEZ reddit and discord. That deadline went from a month to a week and I pretty much neglected everything else.

3; Animation Junk

I made a story board for this project, and that actually helped so much. I'm not really sure why but I think without it, it wouldn't have been finished.

I was planning to have people help on backgrounds but, schedule changes.

For back-backgrounds, I used LibreSprite and the tile mode so I didn't have to copy and paste it 2000 times. Backgrounds weren't as hard this time since one, I made sketches beforehand. Two, I knew what style I wanted to go for.

For frames, I just did the same thing I did last time. Sidenote for myself to make it look less glossy and greasy.

I did really like the second part when Gomez's color pallet changes. I didn't think it'd look that good until recently.

Doesn't excuse the poor pacing though.

4; Stream

I had to watch the stream during school, so it kept buffering every few minutes. I actually cried when my project was shown on screen, I know it's something not that big (at least I think that's how people think) but I don't do much with myself and was so ecstatic.

I don't think anyone noticed I was crying until afterwards, I don't think they thought I was crying.

5; Sidenote

Excuse the lack of drawings recently, I've just been thinking too hard about what I should do for my next project. I don't want to completely neglect making art pieces but I also want to put my full attention to animations and games.

I've just been very stagnant with everything I guess. I still draw pretty much daily, I just don't know what to do.

All of those problems could probably be avoided if I had a schedule but yolo.

I can't believe it's been over a month since I made that already, I wanted to make a little doc so that I could

1. Delete it off Lappy so I have more room
2. Look at this in the future and compare what I'm doing then and now

1; Work

I opened a FireAlpaca file and started drawing, I didn't have any ideas for what I wanted to do and usually I would have a clear vision for projects like this. Nothing came about, so I just freedrew whatever I wanted. My Psychonauts animation took a week for only 5 frames, since I did it in a very odd and unconventional way. I wanted to make things simpler for myself, so I let the line art be more jagged and used layer settings for shading. I made a few bits and pieces but I still wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I decided to make a quick retelling of the story. The song was tricky, originally I was going to use We're off you know by Klaatu, didn't choose it because it didn't flow very well and I was very scared of copyright issues. I settled with Bryan Scary's Venus Ambassador later.

Originally, the crewmates were wearing nothing, and there were some very strange shading decisions I made. I fixed them later on so I'm thanking myself for keeping all the layers separated and labelled. I'm not really sure why I make things harder for myself but I always do that, so I guess I shouldn't expect anything. I knew if I drew the sketch traditionally and transfer it onto my computer, it would be very easy to line, but I of course didn't do that for some reason. Instead I would paint it with no sketch and continued slapping on paint until I finally decided to just draw the damn sketch. You can see my development with backgrounds throughout the animation, the gift shop is my favorite.

When I was done with frames and backgrounds, I would export them in folders that I should have probably named better. Editing the clips together was such a nightmare, the more images I had on there the more it would lag. That is mostly because my laptop isn't that powerful but sometimes I wished I just knew how to use Blender. Doesn't even matter anyways since I'm using flash now LOL.

2; Unused & Sketches

Sadly, the majority was lost when I went back to re-export and decided to replace my files. I have a gif on my art gallery back when it was going to be an animation meme.

3; Sidenote

I was complaining to a friend during my spring break about the state of animation memes, along the lines of-

"The animation gets better every year, but I just really hate the songs they use.. I should just make one myself with a song that I like."

I haven't done anything during the whole break and I thought this would be a nice side project to work on.

I thought I was only going to spend 2 days on this, but it took 2 weeks, It probably would've been done earlier without school though. When progress was chugging along I made posted multiple W.I.Ps and a release date that I actually went through with this time. I was shaking horribly, the excitement was so overwhelming, I hadn't made anything that big since like 2018, I thought I was going to quit animation forever. It's odd though, I haven't been so motivated to finish animations in a long time. Of course I animated stuff but I hadn't had that sense of euphoria that I used to feel when I was first starting to animate. I think might be regressing.

4; Other Newer Projects

As of current, I'm making a Jazzpunk AMV and I learned that I'm better at drawing with a mouse. My project before that was a quick animation on flash, first time using it. I have 2 very simple games and a children's book being worked on as well, they're still in the stick note phase so I'm planning on atleast one of them releasing during the summer. I'd rather not show W.I.Ps of them currently, they are much more personal projects and I hold a different respect for them compared to my fanarts. Speaking of fanart, here's a W.I.P;

Thinking about making a big drawing after this animation. Who knows we'll see.