I actually love the process of animating because I feel great whenever I create a believable movement. I never had "woe is me" moments while animating. The only problem I have with animation is beginning. You really have to kick yourself in the arse sometimes.
AWWWW shit son...
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Bogart pretty much said EXACTLY what I was gonna say, I love planning things, ESPECIALLY writing them. I love storyboarding, and I like setting the framework for the idea, key animation. But ultimately I just end up second-guessing whether projects are worth it or not, and sooner or later, I always end up being unsatisfied with what I created. I'll have an idea for something new 1/3 of the way through every idea I pursue, so nothing gets done. Then I get in these loops to where I won't leave these SUPER old ideas alone (DevilSlayer and Necropolis are my white whale)
I love to animate, but I recognize that I'm severely lacking in something psychological that will keep me focussed on one thing at a time.
When I'm redrawing something 24 times and it takes close to an hour for that 1 second of animation that might go totally unnoticed, I usually want to smash my computer and never work on Flash again.
But that feeling of submitting something to the portal, waiting for thousands of people to see it! There really is nothing else like it. That's what I live for when I animate, is that feeling and sense of pride I can take in my work.
I also greatly enjoy watching old cartoons of mine where the quality was SO poor. I'm just excited to have a sense of progress in the quality of my work.
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Everytime i imagine something, it usually get's almost entirely just as good as what i imagined, or even better, that's how it goes for me, i'm surprised i get my shit just how i wanted it."
lol someones a troll or fuckin delusional
animating is a huge headache, looking at 5 different onion skinned frames at once and trying to remember the movement and flow of each part of a drawing and incorporating that into the current frame's drawing is just mind melting. but it can be a lot of fun, just like solving puzzles or other critical thinking activities people enjoy.
I think animation is incredibly fun, and while I will agree with you that sometimes I want to rip off my own head when it gets frustrating, I actually don't get frustrated with it too often. I think I'm so in the zone and relaxed about making my animations thanks to a quote from one of my teachers, Jon McClenahan (creator of Startoons), which goes "it's Animation, not Brain Surgery, no one is going to die if you fuck it up". That and I've been drawing my entire life, so I'm so used to it because it's like... The only thing I know how to do lol. That and make funny voices and fart using my palms...
Everything, that u can give a life for some of your greatest sketches.
And also u`r like a god, who can say them what to do and how to do it.
to me, the part thats worth it. is when its finished. cuz when its done, u can be like " i did that." of course the main obstacle i think for every animator is starting one.
I am beginning on my first real animation. The stuff that I have made up to now is crap and not worthy of being called animation. I like starting out and getting the idea for the animation and then you start and are like "This is great" and then your halfway through and you go "OMG this sucks" Then you finish and watch it and go "So worth the effort".
Sadly I'm not an animator... so I couldn't tell you what about animating is fun. I can tell as a VA/watcher of animations, a good story, interesting concepts, or etc, are all fun and all that. Sometimes professional quality and etc is good, other times it's better just to have off the wall zaniness.
As an animator, it's whatever you feel you need to do at the time, or want to do.
The first 2 days are fun on the animation process. The rest of it sucks alot. I grow to hate my projects after the first 2 days. Thats why I try n get them out the door asap :D
There are a lot of times when I feel like there's no point in finishing whatever Flash I'm working on. But when I feel like an idea is really worth making, nothing stops me, and I know it will feel absolutely incredible to finish.
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