Learning the Art

Well I'd like to say that I haven't posted anything for the last twelve days because I've been spending all my hours on the film, working my butt off day in and day out. But as you've probably guessed, this is not the case. The fact is that until yesterday, I'd gone for almost a week without touching the project. My reason? I was frustrated. Really frustrated.

Sometime last week I decided that I was going to have a hardcore production day. I would sit at my computer all day, and not so much as think an unproductive thought. I would go all day, IM nobody, not check facebook, not even tempt myself to look at the latest tech news headlines. Surprisingly, my day went as planned, and I spent my entire day practicing animating my character. Now I'm assuming that as your reading this your sitting down. If you were to stand up, and just stand there, you would not be standing still. Your arms would be loosely swinging, and your chest would be moving slightly as you breath. Your body would be making a million other minor motions that you could hardly identify. You couldn't stand perfectly still even if you wanted to. Even when standing still, a character is alive and moving. The only character that isn't, is a dead character, and for the most part I'd like to keep my wooden man alive. So I spent all day working on creating realistic motion for a character that was standing still. It kept looking better and better to me. But towards the end of the day, I made some changes, and didn't save the old version. I looked at it, and was farther from being satisfied then I had been when I started. I looked at an older version, and that looked just as bad. So thats when I shut down all my software, and tried not to think about it. Luckily, yesterday I started up again. I worked on the screenplay a bit, started modeling(creating) a book that will be lying out on the desk. So thats where I am right now. As soon as I publish this I'll get back to work, and hopefully my next post will be a little more about success then not.