I created mouths for the creatures the other day, and today I animated them and added them to the project.
And I have to say, it looks good.
It also means, the drawing/animating part is done for this section. I still have to do the soundtrack, and I've recorded some source files to adapt, so nothing's completely done yet. Still, I like having the sense of accomplishment. I almost feel...good. Wonder what will come along to destroy that?
UPDATE: Well, nothing showed up to wreck things, aside from 2: my continual addiction, and (I think) the fear of completing things. After I wrote the three paragraphs above, I got an itch, and started (for lack of a better phrase) "extending the narrative."
In other words, more graphic ideas occurred, and I drew and/or animated those ideas. And while I think the current project is stronger for what I did today, it did mean that I could lean back and say, "Ah, well, no audio work; visual bit's not done; still it will be finished. Eventually."
It's an odd state in which to find oneself. Yes, on the one hand, I think it made the scene stronger. On the other hand, it means that "finishing" something is just a goal, not an end in itself. What an odd way to complain about creative energies being stoked...but there is that hesitant bit.
Never finishing something is a means of pushing the "judging" aspect off for a bit. To the extent that there's no "final product" and hence no judgement.
I suspect I will have to do the same thing I did last time--publish and be damned, rather than refine forever.
Still, there's no audio track yet. So that's...a goal. Not an end, but a goal.
Oh well, thanks as always for reading.
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