Let me tell you what I've been up to the last few months; the animated short on blender is starting to come together and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel as I progress through the storyboard and even though I know the last stretch is always the longest one I can't help but feel proud of succeeding on this small enterprise. To me success is not exclusive to being frontpaged or getting positive feedback, when I'm done with this project it will be a personal success to have stayed motivated and kept up to the schedule of a year long project.

New projects are always exciting when you're getting started but staying true to an older idea and keeping it on track has an enchantment of its own. Now some of my current projects include a monthly release of a music album and building up a 3D printer from scratch and I think these are two perfect examples of blank slate excitement and long term commitment. On one hand having to come up with fresh concepts for the album release has forced me to keep a broader sense of things and no not linger too much on small details but keeping up with a longer and steady project will fill you with a sense of achievement so I couldn't choose between the two but it has taught me a few things like for example the best way to finish a project is with (yeah, you guessed right) deadlines. If you're making a movie a videogame or even a song make yourself a timeline, then break it up in tasks, then break it up in tasks again till you're analysing how much time will you be spending going to the bathroom (just kidding, but really make a detailed schedule), then add a few more weeks to the deadline because the infamous unexpected will always happen and you will be wondering where the hell did all that time go, so do your future self a favour and add in a few courtesy miscellaneous days to your timeline, ah yes now I can procrastinate in peace.

I'm not too big on templates, I honestly think that doing a repeated action over and over again is one of the definitions of being an artist. But definitions aside having some elements repeated throughout your work will help knitting the project together it could be a snare drum an odd looking scratch on the wall or even a typography cause if you're like me working on seven different blender scenes for a movie it's really easy to feel that there is starting to be little to no correlation between them.

A last thought on long and short term projects, something I've learned like everyone else, the hard way, is too keep it simple, and I think that fortunately newgrounds favours raw energy over technical finnese and it's one of the reasons why I've been always drawn to this website. See, your Pharaonic projections of what your project could possibly be are only keeping you from achieving a finished project, so go ahead and dispose of that huge idea in your head and keep it simple, keep it real, as we would say in Argentina, don't flash.

As I said before, the movie is coming together so here are a few stills of how it's looking.

29 is out too so take a 20 minute break while you listen to it.

Also I didn't make it to the second group stage on the audio deathmatch, oh well, it was good fun though and I still have to come up with a song in case they call from the fill-in pool!