Actually a decent day...until the mail arrived. You don't want to know.
Got some decent pay-hours in. More tomorrow, too.
Spent a lot of time tweaking audio for Flash. Using Audacity, of course; if you're working in Flash, you are pretty much out of luck on the audio side. You need to make sure that your sound files are in good working order before you import them in, or it'll end in tears. Same with anything resembling artwork; use PhotoShop to create anything decent. It's hard to know what Flash is actually good at, other than simple animation. Maybe that's enough.
Decided to over-complicate some graphic stuff in the project, because why not, and wondered...am I just afraid of finishing this one project? Because after this, yeah, there could be refinements in what I'm doing, but the next logical step is character animation, and I feel way unprepared for that. So perhaps I am subconsciously trying to make sure the current project is always tweakable, so I can run out that excuse. And always have something to post here.
Since reviving this blog, it has been a great motivator, and I've done a lot of stuff...but sometimes the need to post overcomes the need to create. Years ago, I used to do movie reviews, and at the time I couldn't enjoy movies because I was always thinking "Can I make a review of this?"
It might be a good idea to set a "publish-or-perish" deadline on projects. A month, perhaps. Sure, it's fun to tinker, but in the end, one must produce.
See you tomorrow.
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