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.