StickKnights coming sooon?!?!? *head asplode*

Yes, you read that right, folks. StickKnights is coming. The reason for this is that I am totally trying to sort my life out right now. On my computer is a HUGE collection of animations. About twenty or thirty files I think, without going to check. They're all just sitting there gathering virtual dust. No good to anybody. So I thought, "I need to get these things finished! Then people might think that I'm a pretty cool guy who makes animations and doesn't afraid of anything!" (<-- obscure Internet joke.)

So that was mainly the reason I created the website that is still in the sidebar and still a bit misaligned. I wanted to start releasing animations. What was my plan? Create an entirely new animated series of about 37 episodes, voice them, put sounds to them, and somehow release them on some kind of regular, maybe bi-weekly basis. It took a while for me to realise that judging from my short attention span and tendency to bugger off and do something lazy and unproductive in the middle of working on something worthwhile, that this might not be 100% possible with my current state of mind.

So, I ask myself, what do I do? I can't create a brand new series out of thin air, putting all this work in in a remarkably short time span and offering it free of charge, it wasn't gonna happen? So what do I do then? I have no long-running series that I have done before that I can offer to my subscribers over a long period of time? There is How To Beat School, which only has two episodes, one of them obviously left unfinished. What can I do? What is there left to do?

This was all a bit much for me and my brain shut itself down from the ensuing bombardment of having too many options, too many things that I had started and promised to everyone that I was going to finish that still screamed to be finished. Well, I thought to myself, this has got to stop. I'm going to put aside everything and work on one thing at a time. Where do I begin? Simple, that "15-second story driven animation" project I started in Year 8 that bloomed into something much, much more. StickKnights.

This has been in little to no-production for three years straight. I'd keep coming back, making an extra 5 seconds of it at a time, and then would go play Bioshock or Team Fortress 2 or whatever I felt like wasting production time on. At times I would stop and think, and I would really want this to be completed so badly, as if someone else in me was urging me to go finish it. Probably my inner "snap self back to reality" mechanism which pushes me back on track every century or so. I say that because usually I would drown it out and ignore it. Another reason that productionwas so slow is that sometimes I would lose a lot of progress on it. I had lost my USB one grim Thursday. The USB eventually came back safely, but the data didn't. The "effort" I put into it was gone and I would have to start all again. This was very demoralizing and halted production even more. A similar loss of data happened just a couple of days ago when DrawPlus decided to screw with me and FORGET everything that I had worked on, despite the fact that I was saving regularly. Fortunately, not as much data was lost this time and DrawPlus seems to be behaving itself. And to be ready, I have two backups on seperate drives. Gah, with all these delays, sometimes I did believe that the release of StickKnights would never come.

But not anymore. I'm not going to create any distractions, nor allow any more mistakes. I AM going to make myself known amongst the masses and start my animating career with the biggest bang, doing what I jokingly thought to be the impossible; finshing that damn animation. You'll see soon enough, I'm certain of it! StickKnights will come soon enough. And I will be very satisfied with getting it out the way, and having all my work pay off.

As for after the release, what then? Well, I guess I could just upload my more recent unfinished animations for public view and maybe, some of the older ones that can make even my brother laugh, which is quite an acheivement for a younger brother. I'll upload them as well. But all in due time. For now, I've got one particular animation to be working on.

PS. Thanks to the guy who I was on Facebook chat with at the moment I got an idea to make this a blog post, you got me talking and BAM! a good idea appeared! So, thanks, Just because you're cool!

PPS. Apologies to subscribers for a lack of content. I'll say now that there will continue to be no new content coming to the site as I focus on StickKnights. Srry bt tht.