I like writing journals here. It's nostalgic bc of my old deviantart days but also a good place to ramble about my projects and art escapades I suppose. And in this case: talking about my Secret Artfight Attack

See, last year I surprised my friend by putting out an animatic I had, unbeknownst to anyone, been working on the entire month. Once the final day came around I uploaded it and received exceptional reactions along the lines of praise and declaring I'm insane. This year I had mentioned many times that I'm absolutely not doing an animatic- saying it in a way that (hopefully) made it seem like I just cant put in the work for "something like that".

I absolutely did NOT make an animatic this time. But I am putting together a hand-drawn animation. It's a little over 160 frames I believe (but each drawing takes the place of 2 frames, so about 80 drawings). It's been nice to actually do animation work again. And also I think this will be really funny to surprise my friend with

It's been taking a little longer than expected. I started doing lip sync this weekend and my god did that give me trouble- part of which was because I was being stubborn. But I'm now back in a better flow for the time being. It's definitely getting done by august 3rd, at least the base animation. The plan is to refine everything on paper but We Shall See!