School has been hitting me hard for the past few weeks. English threw me an eight page literary analysis paper(which ended up being ten pages), calc has been murdering me, physics has been dropping me at 9.8 m/s^2, and the school play has kicked into high gear, meaning time to build a lot of shit(including an eight foot balcony complete with stairs that I'm in charge of building). At least I love technical theatre, but school couldn't end sooner.
Luckily for me school has started to slow down in terms of workload and brutal murder of my soul. Calc and physics have somehow merged together in that we have started solving the same problems in both classes using slight variations of the same formula. Though it does make sense, considering Newton did invent calculus and that is what a lot of physics is based on.
But now I'm rambling about school...so lets move on to flash news.
As usual, school has kept me away from working on my own projects. Little Frog Duel II has slowed to a halt. Right now I'm giving up on this project. I have no current motivation for it and my art and animation skills have improved so much that I would want to start this project from scratch if I were to tackle it again. Luckily I have many new ideas for movies that I can work on instead.
I view this as a positive, negative, and sort of a hypocritical step for me.
The negative is that I have given up on a project to focus on something else. This is one of my personal flaws. I give up on ideas to focus on new ones and rarely get anything done. I have been trying to combat this weakness in recent years and it has paid off, though it is hard to get rid of in my flash environment.
The positive aspect of this decision is that I can focus on new and exciting projects. Projects that might keep my interest in the future and projects that I may actually be able to finish on a quicker time table. LFD2 was a huge project and some of the movies I am planning on making are shorts. It also means the quality of LFD2 will be greater than if I was to work on it now. If/when I start to work on it my skills will be greater than they are now. This ensures a higher quality of work, but at a greater time away.
The hypocritical side of this decision is that it goes against my own advice to my friend Kalen. I have given him advice in the past to never give up on his projects just because he lost focus. I feel that if I am doing this now than all my advice will have no meaning. I am a big believer in practicing what you preach. I guess this is just how life is, but I still can't help feeling a tiny bit guilty.
Enough about Little Frog Duel II though. Let's move on to things that I have actually accomplished in flash.
While I have not been able to work on my personal projects, I have been able to produce a nice part for the "Prayer" by Disturbed Collab. I produced a part for it back in July before the school year. Over the busy school weeks I have been able to make a new and better part for the collab and have just finished it. Since anyone can find these parts in the thread, I thought I'd post them here for everyone to see. This is just so you all can see my parts when the actual collab comes out. =D
...I'm so selfish....
I've also started working on a third part for the collab. These parts are great for me to improve my skills because they are so short, yet can be so expressive and creative based on what you want to create. Based on the lyrics in the song I am able to create a great visual as an accompaniment. These short parts also allow me to work on creating a higher quality of artwork and animation than I have been used to in making my past movies. They are helping me greatly and these skills I'm practicing and learning will benefit my longer projects once I get more free time.
Here are the parts for the collab.
I'll post shots of Part 31 soon, though you can always find recent updates in the thread.
Finally a doodle for you're enjoyment. No info on it yet, just a random doodle I drew in calc on day when I was bored and in a threatening mood.
