So another month has come and gone. Yeah, there it is in the rearview mirror.
And what have we accomplished this month?
We’ll, we’re not dead. That’s an accomplishment of some kind, I suppose.
Drew some stuff. Had a couple of ideas, which may or may not go anywhere. Honestly, this month just seemed to zip past pretty quickly. I hear that happens a lot.
Thanks as always for stopping by. See you in April.
So much for February. Mostly drawing faces, which are interesting, and have some possible ideas behind them, but little I can call concrete.
This was also the month of trying, and failing, to upgrade to a better laptop. Something that might last for some years without becoming seriously outdated. So far, I’ve tried two models and ended up sending both back, because both of them would simply lock up and force me to return to a restore point.
Either I got a pair of lemons, or Windows 11 Home is terrible, or some third thing. Speaking of third things, the third laptop arrived today, about a week ahead of schedule. We’ll see if that one can hold up for more than a couple of days.
And that’s about it. See you next time, with any luck something interesting will have happened. Thanks for stopping by.
Well, I’ve had better months, and I’ve had worse ones as well. Some sad personal news, though dealt with and all have moved on.
Finishing up “Evening Wear” left me creatively exhausted…which is not good when a gigantic dump of snow leaves everyone stranded in the house, and I don’t have a damned thing to occupy me. (I’ve tried a few things here and there, and some may lead somewhere, but none of them are grabbing me.) So that was a terribly frustrating time.
Anyway, who knows what’s ahead. Thanks for stopping by.
I finally replaced my phone, and the new one has a much better camera.
2023 is not quite in the rear-view mirror yet, but it’s close enough to warrant a final entry for the year.
And that was a year. ”Evening Wear” took up almost the entire year–the earliest drawings date from early January. But it’s done, posted, and can be found here. Warning: it’s almost twenty minutes long.
As for the rest, there were some good things, some bad things. On balance, maybe a hair better than last year, though neither invites a close examination. It’s almost over, let it be done.
Thanks for stopping by, see you next year, and may your next year be a pleasant and rewarding one.
The good news is, Chapter Three is essentially done, and Chapter Four should be pretty short (aside from a couple of technical issues I can foresee). Three still needs a soundtrack, and at nearly seven minutes, that might take a while to concoct. So the whole project might be done near the one-year anniversary of when the damned thing began.
And then what will I do with my time?
Anyway, thanks for visiting, see you again soon.
Quite a bit of work done on the latest project. I had hoped to showcase a bit of animation but that may be beyond the free version of WordPress I’m using. But here goes nothing:
I think that should possibly work? If not, I guess everyone will have to be a little patient (including me).
As mentioned, quite a bit was done last month. I’m now up to about fourteen minutes of animation (not all of it with a soundtrack yet). Still quite a bit to go, alas.
Until that day, thanks as always for dropping by.
Well, that went fast. I managed to finish part two of the latest project–five minutes of audio and video ready to go. Did about a minute of part three, too.
I think part three is going to be the difficult one–there are fewer objects, and no really complex scenes, but the actions are going to be more precise and, I think, difficult for someone of my skill level. Ah well, I’ll give it my all. I’m hoping the whole thing will be done by the end of October, but I’m making no promises.
As always, thanks for stopping by, and see you again soon.
And there goes August. For the most part, it was not a good month.
Got some stuff done on the project, some new ideas came in, good work all around. So there was that.
But everything else has just been okay, at best, and often a lot less than that. Not helping is the ghastly hot weather here lately.
So, another entry with little other than complaints. We’ll see if things improve next month.
So, there goes July (more or less). It was actually a fairly productive month. I got frustrated trying to animate certain sequences late in the current project, so I decided to concentrate on soundtrack work. The result: 4 minutes of animation, complete with soundtrack.
Yay, me!
The unfortunate thing about this is that these four minutes are only the beginning of the story, and they don’t really make much sense outside the context of the whole thing. I could post it as a “part one” but I think it would work better complete with the other bits. It’s just that kind of a story, where the parts really lead into each other.
Which means, sigh, going back to the animation bits that were proving to be so vexing. Ah well, perhaps inspiration will strike me (with a truck).
So that’s July. As always, thanks for stopping by, and we’ll be back shortly.
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