update for my summer animation project

it's going slowly.  the whole production is behind schedule and the employees take frequent snack and/or book breaks and no one knows what's going to happen next plotwise and everyone is generally confused.

just kidding.

only part of that is true.

the part about book reading breaks.

and possibly the not knowing what's going on plot-wise

but on a better note, I learned how to use windows movie maker to animate photos.  all you do is click on the "select all" button after uploading all of your frames, then going to the edit tab and changing the duration to somewhere around .06 seconds.  This took me a long time to figure out, and is a cause of concern for the future since I will have to have a semi-friendly relationship with computers in order to get money in the future.

I also learned about other things in the field of animation, but I disregarded that advice since that was the kind of advice you took to heart if you wanted your animated video to be "professional" looking and that is not what I want.  This video will be amazing, and also brut-iful.  That's a word that Craig Ferguson made up that is the combination of brutal and beautiful.

and now the current frame count (made with one of those clickey things that bus drivers use to count kids.  I wanted one ever since my first bus ride to elementary school.  now I have one and it is everything I expected it to be and more)
It's so low because I've been doing storyboards for the next few seconds.  I only got up to this many frames so quick because all the frames I've drawn already have been floating around with all of the other cerebral flotsam and jetsam for a matter of months and now that I have exhausted that idea, I need new ones.  Furthermore, I decided to take my time and give the next ideas roughly the same amount of time to grow and evolve. maybe.

The gif below is a parallel project I'm doing involving a book I will never ever read.  I will draw on every single page of this book without thought as to where the plot is going. the key words for this project are quick and simple and with a sharpie since pen takes way too long and I won't plan ahead no matter what my organic computer says. (organic computer is your brain; I heard it from a brit-com on PBS.)