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I love animating, but I lost my drive for it. Help?

Lobie5

Lobie5

Lobie the Cartoonist
If anybody out here is an animator—how do you finish an animation/animatic without completely running out of steam 10% of the way through, leaving it unfinished forever? I used to love doing it, but now it's impossible to make anything longer than 2 seconds.
 
LeoTheFox

LeoTheFox

Fire Fox :3
Well, I'm not exactly a good animator. I'm a software engineer and I do web-design on the side. But really same thing happens to me whenever I start any of my own projects. I start so hyped up, then I kinda' get tired and leave it for tomorrow. Then I don't do it the next day and it kinda' gets forgotten forever. I heard that it has something to do with our personal lives and our mood. If we're depressed, we start to laze up uncontrollably and it's kind of unnoticable. You figure it out later when it gets too obvious. I used to have energy for everything. I used to sleep 2 hours a day just to do some coding and finish a project and I loved it. Not anymore...
 
LeoTheFox

LeoTheFox

Fire Fox :3
Lobie5 said:
If anybody out here is an animator—how do you finish an animation/animatic without completely running out of steam 10% of the way through, leaving it unfinished forever? I used to love doing it, but now it's impossible to make anything longer than 2 seconds.
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Well, everyone has songs that make your heart feel weird and you like it (That was the stupidest sentence in history but you get the gist). Those kinda' songs usually help me get some work done.
 
Lobie5

Lobie5

Lobie the Cartoonist
LeoTheFox said:
Well, I'm not exactly a good animator. I'm a software engineer and I do web-design on the side. But really same thing happens to me whenever I start any of my own projects. I start so hyped up, then I kinda' get tired and leave it for tomorrow. Then I don't do it the next day and it kinda' gets forgotten forever. I heard that it has something to do with our personal lives and our mood. If we're depressed, we start to laze up uncontrollably and it's kind of unnoticable. You figure it out later when it gets too obvious. I used to have energy for everything. I used to sleep 2 hours a day just to do some coding and finish a project and I loved it. Not anymore...
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You're totally right, actually. My mental health has kinda been up and down recently. Some days, I feel totally fine. The next day it's ENDLESS ANXIETY.
Here's hoping we both get ourselves sorted out soon. ^^;
 
Lobie5

Lobie5

Lobie the Cartoonist
LeoTheFox said:
Well, everyone has songs that make your heart feel weird and you like it (That was the stupidest sentence in history but you get the gist). Those kinda' songs usually help me get some work done.
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Oh, absolutely!! The right kind of music can help me stay focused way easier.
I've also noticed it helps me keep track of time. I've got this one playlist of vaporwave music that lasts about 30 minutes, so when the playlist ends, I know to get up and take a short break.
 
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