Hey all...
If you haven't sensed it, my motivation pendulum has swung in the wrong direction. Nothing to worry about too much. It's a pattern that develops. Like this:
1. Make Cartoon
2. Burnout period
3. Video Games
4. Regret
5. Motivation
6. Go back to 1
I am firmly in phase 3 right now.
I'm not gonna lie, making these cartoons is far from plesant. I get consumed to the point that I forget to eat, and the dogshit piles up in the backyard. I get to be an irritable prick around the house. I work 40 + hours a week in a sterile environment for the government, and when I get home I spend every waking moment working on the cartoon. It's a burden on my wife, and I feel guilty.
But, making cartoons is not a choice. I don't do it for daily awards, and I don't do it for money. I do it because I have to. It's like a cold sore, it will go away for a while, but it will come back eventually. There's no getting around it. I have been making cartoons since I was 16 years old, and I am now very nearly 30. When I am shitting the bed in a damp, sticky nursing home I will still be making these. Maybe by that time I'll be up to SAMV 9. Lol.
Starting up a cartoon is like dangling my toes over the edge of a bottomless pit. Once I fall in, there is no going back until I am finished. And... I am not close enough to the edge of that pit yet. It's a scary feeling starting this thing up, because I know it will take up my life.
But I will start again. I have a feeling that it will be soon.
Throw me some motivation. I am getting a little low.
I think I'll attach a picture since that option is availible. And I love to waste Tom's server space =P
Gnydsmelt
You say you can't stop working when you start something? Well that's very good for you.. because whenever i start something that looks promising i loose motivation after the 2nd or 3rd scene and i end up throwing it in the bin :(.
Here is some motivation for you, WE are plenty who wants to see another S.A.M.V soon, it would be awesome.. it's destiny is to be awesome, you can't fail on that.
Good luck..,!
BaconMask
Thanks a bunch for those kind words, they help me out a bunch!!!