BACK AT IT? ยท 26 JUNE 2022
Vacation came and went and now it's almost the end of June already! I did work on this project last weekend a bit. Shot some reference of myself for this shot. Something I almost never do, but decided to anyway. Usually all I do is act out the scenes myself and then try to feel how my body is reacting to a certain pose, but it does help to have a video recording of this as well. These type of shots are not gong to be 1:1 with reference in most cases and I tend to change things once I see it from the camera, but might try doing this moving forward.

Blocked in the robot today. I was really dragging my feet on him because it's just a "reaction" type motion, but it's still important to have somethng appealling. I thought about jumping around to do a shot that might be more "fun," but ultimately decided to keep in sequence so I can see more progress from shot to shot.

Part of what holds me back from working on this project is that I sort of know it's not going to be amazing by today's standards but since I still have the desire to make it as good as possible, the thought of how much work that will take is paralyzing. It's like, if I don't work on it, it can't be bad...or good, but if I do work on it, it may not come out like I envisioned and end up being bad. At this point, I have to tell myself to just get it done or at least moving, and worry about polish or making it better once all of the animation is done. What's that saying, "perfection is the enemy of progress."