I'M NOT ALONE
Apparently I'm not the only indie content creator out there who likes to have something of a backup. More than one reader has written me mentioning that they either plan to do, or do the very thing I am doing right now. What is it? It is having a second project to work on.
The second project serves two purposes actually. Aside from being a protection from burnout policy, sometimes stepping away from a work, even for a day or two can yield the solutions that staying up all night could not. I have in the past struggled with a scene all night only to come back another day, see the problem plain as daylight and fix it in thirty minutes.
The greater the variation between the two projects, the better I say. When I was doing manga, it was perfect because I was working in a totally different medium. The same was the case when I was working on live action video projects. I am told that Author Chris Abani writes a novel and a book of poetry at the same time as it allows him to move to one element when he needs to break from another one. I am basically doing a very serious and technically involved feature, and now also a light hearted and simple children's video project.
What's even more interesting is that combining techniques gained on J4A with mind animation, it's amazing just how much can get done in a short time on such a project. It's truly a revival of the fun of doing straight 2D animations in Dpaint on the old Amiga computer back in the days. Back then it was about spontaneous creativity. "Before I knew better" as one reader put it, I just got in there and made stuff. I have missed that. There's no reason for it to have been lost.
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