finished a page in one day. if this keeps up i could have FINAL DISPOSITION done in like 3 weeks. that would be nice. i need to find a place that can scan my pages. there’s a comic book store that only sells handmade comics, i’ll ask them.
heh... working on a new page for something... wifi comign soon + i upgraded my website host and now i can post mp3s and mp4s so that means i can post some things no one has seen before!! stay tuned
im reading a story about this old school animator and it's really making me realize how much i want to animate. he made this film almost entirely by himself because no one wanted to fund it. this is a process i've never seen before- tedious, tiring, difficult, almost not worth the effort. but that was the passion and perfectionism that goes into animation. i often want to make comic books because i think i have to start with a simpler form of storytelling before i'm "allowed" to make an animated film but hey... i animated a film all by myself in 5 months before i ever made a comic book. and i much prefer animation- it's the way i imagine my stories as finished products, and comics only as first drafts for what will eventually become an animation. i have a lot of ideas, i want to try to make something soon. i still have a comic book i'm going to finish, but from now on i'm going to focus on films.
ive missed updating this place regularly while my pc has been packed away but this week i got myself a new apartment and the near daily updates will be returning very soon
what’s that saying? the simplest answer is usually the best one? i find that to be true in most aspects of life. it will take me months, years often, to come to a conclusion that should have been obvious from the very beginning. i didn’t think of being an animator until my final year in highschool, while everyone else around me knew i was going to be one since the day they met me.
all this to say i feel like i finally understand what direction i want to go in for my Ghoul story. i’ve been rattling my brain trying to come up with what makes Ghoul special, and i’ve been grasping at things that were never a part of their character in the first place!!! but what Occam’s razor or whatever told me is that what makes Ghoul special is: They’re a stalker. that’s the story i’ve always wanted to tell, that’s what i have experience with, and that’s the kind fo love story i relate to and want to read myself. i know... a lot about stalkers... my final project at animation school was even about stalking! Currently thinking about the title “They Were a Good Ghoul” after the song by Campfire Stalker (which i actually first heard as a remix by Pisca). but yeah… now i can stop trying to come up with plots where Ghoul is a science experiment brought back from the dead and they came back wrong. that’s the whole idea, that’s what i want you to think it is. but they’re not even a monster at all, they’re just a creepy human and what makes them so special that i’d tell you a story about them is that they’re a good stalker. sorry if it seems silly… it’s always exciting when i make one of these ridiculous breakthroughs. it took so long but i knew it would come to me!