Dude, you found me JUST at the right time! I’m basically making an animated series and I’m on episode 3, but I’ve found myself overwhelmed and panicking all the time because it’s a TON of work. So this video was perfect!
@@Thesilentvoice... Thank you!!! Sometimes I’m kinda just down on myself saying what you said, but the negative version like “oh, you just made 2 episodes?” But I appreciate your kind words 😊
You pretty much summarized why 90% of my projects never see the light of day. The 10% that make it are stepping stones, so I can take that 90% and decrease it to say 75%. This way I have way more productive sessions with my projects. I'm still learning in many ways in regards to my profession. Only because that is my viewpoint of being an artist. You should always be trying new techniques, mediums, studying other great art pieces, and etc to make yourself better as an artist. However, constantly challenging yourself drains you mentally and emotionally. That is why I found working on smaller projects works better as application of what I have learned.
Even Star Wars started as just *one* movie called "Star Wars" (the subtitle "Episode IV: A New Hope" was added later). While Lucas always wanted and planned to tell a bigger story, even banked on it by taking a salary cut in favor of the merchandising rights, he started with one chapter out of many, so that there would be something for the audience to like and something to later build off of.
As a personal project animator yourself you understand us by every cell in our being lol 😄. We try to do works of a whole animation industry all by ourselves. Brainstorming , Writing , Storyboarding , character designing , Animatics , Rough Passes , Key Animations , Tiedown , Easing / Tweening / Spacing , Cleanup , Backgrounds , coloring , shading , audio editing , post-processing.. and numerous other steps I forgot to mention, oh man! There are different departments for each steps and it's very easy to Just Give Up if I think of trying to do all of this myself. So I had this vague Idea to create a mindset to do one step at a time and walk away from it for weeks or months, and maybe work on something else in the meantime. Than comeback to it if I feel like it. As a professional yourself , you just solidified my thought that Yes, this might be the only way to possibly ever finishing up a project.
i’m working on a comic for a client and i find myself getting overwhelmed way too easily, it makes me work super slow :(. i can’t even finish lining ONE page in a day…watching this makes me realize that 80% of the issue is because i’m stressing over creative decisions for every panel 😭
Omg it was just today when I finally admitted to myself that I'm burnt out from my own animated series. I have been working on it several hours a day for the last 10 months and i couldn't be more in love with the project and animating it, but it's on my mind 24/7, and it's exhausting. I didn't want to admit it to myself because I felt like such a pure source of dopamine shouldn't be called "work" but today I realized that I was actually WORKING all while working my "normal" job.
Was literally just thinking about all of the different projects that i want to do and how much work that would be, which was conpletwly overwhelming, but then this video popped up and i couldn't have found this at a better time! Thank you so much for this!!
It's worth any efforts. Don't you dare stopping! In the world of copies and wannabies, you are at the frontline. You're making something epic. It's worth every tear and every sleepless night. It's beautiful!
I usually just quit my projects too. Fortunately, luck stayed on my side. I started making a show on RUclips, and I currently just finished episode 2 of season 2. To be able to finish a long project with long projects INSIDE of the project, you need a ton of determination to finish it at the very beginning.
4:21 Focus on one step of the project. Write a paragraph to summarize the film. Come back to it later. Also, focus on rough animations like storyboard and animatics. 6:50 For comics, one step could be “Rough thumbnails.” 7:38 Simplify pipeline. Remove certain steps, like “colors”, multiple programs, shadows, or lights. Just get the job done. Worry about the details later. 9:30 Think about achievable projects. Small projects that you can definitely finish. It doesn’t have to be long, or too detailed. Just make a project you can do. Thank you for all your advices! I’ll try to make good use of them!
My current passion project idea is to just try and see if I can make a 6 min animatic/storyboard video to a song. With like an extra minute or two of extra stuff played during the credits. If I can even get that far, I'll be happy. Then maybe on day I could flesh it out. This helped me figure out how I'd need to start it.
Thank you for making this video, and simplifying the process of making a project. I was dealing with the same problem, and I feel these tips will motivate me more 👍
Its amazing, I was just ruminating how I need to change up my work flow because the way I'm currently doing it is to overwhelming. Then this video gets posted, thanks for that.
I love your perspective on stuff like this! Focusing on one piece of the project at a time and providing myself with really clear limitations from the get go has really helped me a lot. I'd love to hear a continuation on this topic from you :D
I'm making my way through a big personal project now, and the sheer volume of work I have left to do really hit me earlier this week. I'm still going to keep my nose to the grindstone and finish it, but it's still a very exhausting feeling sometimes. What I've found works best for me in situations like this is having a good autopilot. Kinda like when a long-distance runner zones out and lets their body do the work, I put on a stream in the bg and try to zone out during the more tedious areas.
Could you talk more about making animated vignettes for graphic novels? How can we break down our visual static project to extract ideas from a story moment to make an animated vignette? (I know that we need to choose a scene that has a significant impact on the plot or character development. But how a person will understand a vignette? I know that mood can sell an idea, but would you have more tips for us?)
Simplifying stuff is way harder for me ironically, like as an example idk how to make simple looking lineart that looks good, and I get conflicting feedback from people (they're illustrators though) saying maybe I shouldn't be forcing myself to do that anyway It's like my brain is wired to go from complex to simple rather than the other way around and it sucks
One thing I’ve noticed myself doing the last year is spending a bunch of time working out a technical problem in my head then not wanting to do the actual clicking. I don’t know if it’s because I feel like I’ve already accomplished it or what
Have you sent a film to a festival and could one of your videos be about that if you did. I’m an asset artist so it’s other people who send their films to festivals.
do you have any advice on writing something in a different setting but making that feel genuine? I have this plot idea and I want it set in the 1970s but I don’t want it too feel to modern or stereotypically 70s-ish”
Maybe read stuff published from that decade? As a kid I thought it was interesting that I could notice that Beverly Clearly stories were written in different decades. Also listening to videos or biographies that have sections about that time period. I had a family members house that didn't change from the 70s. The shag carpet and knitted/crochet details everywhere made it smell very dusty. Plastic on the couch and knitted pillows. Also a emphasis on framed photos and art.
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Dude, you found me JUST at the right time! I’m basically making an animated series and I’m on episode 3, but I’ve found myself overwhelmed and panicking all the time because it’s a TON of work. So this video was perfect!
Saaaaaaameeeeee!!!!!!😂😅😢
Rooting for you! Have fun Go rock!
@@Patty1naDraw Thank you!!!
The fact that you've made 2 episodes and are working on the 3rd is incredible. You've got this.
@@Thesilentvoice... Thank you!!! Sometimes I’m kinda just down on myself saying what you said, but the negative version like “oh, you just made 2 episodes?” But I appreciate your kind words 😊
Future animators and writers like me needed this video to be made
You pretty much summarized why 90% of my projects never see the light of day. The 10% that make it are stepping stones, so I can take that 90% and decrease it to say 75%. This way I have way more productive sessions with my projects. I'm still learning in many ways in regards to my profession. Only because that is my viewpoint of being an artist. You should always be trying new techniques, mediums, studying other great art pieces, and etc to make yourself better as an artist. However, constantly challenging yourself drains you mentally and emotionally. That is why I found working on smaller projects works better as application of what I have learned.
Even Star Wars started as just *one* movie called "Star Wars" (the subtitle "Episode IV: A New Hope" was added later).
While Lucas always wanted and planned to tell a bigger story, even banked on it by taking a salary cut in favor of the merchandising rights, he started with one chapter out of many, so that there would be something for the audience to like and something to later build off of.
As a personal project animator yourself you understand us by every cell in our being lol 😄. We try to do works of a whole animation industry all by ourselves. Brainstorming , Writing , Storyboarding , character designing , Animatics , Rough Passes , Key Animations , Tiedown , Easing / Tweening / Spacing , Cleanup , Backgrounds , coloring , shading , audio editing , post-processing.. and numerous other steps I forgot to mention, oh man! There are different departments for each steps and it's very easy to Just Give Up if I think of trying to do all of this myself.
So I had this vague Idea to create a mindset to do one step at a time and walk away from it for weeks or months, and maybe work on something else in the meantime. Than comeback to it if I feel like it. As a professional yourself , you just solidified my thought that Yes, this might be the only way to possibly ever finishing up a project.
i’m working on a comic for a client and i find myself getting overwhelmed way too easily, it makes me work super slow :(. i can’t even finish lining ONE page in a day…watching this makes me realize that 80% of the issue is because i’m stressing over creative decisions for every panel 😭
Being indecisive is the main thing that halts my progress
Omg it was just today when I finally admitted to myself that I'm burnt out from my own animated series. I have been working on it several hours a day for the last 10 months and i couldn't be more in love with the project and animating it, but it's on my mind 24/7, and it's exhausting. I didn't want to admit it to myself because I felt like such a pure source of dopamine shouldn't be called "work" but today I realized that I was actually WORKING all while working my "normal" job.
Was literally just thinking about all of the different projects that i want to do and how much work that would be, which was conpletwly overwhelming, but then this video popped up and i couldn't have found this at a better time! Thank you so much for this!!
It's worth any efforts. Don't you dare stopping! In the world of copies and wannabies, you are at the frontline. You're making something epic. It's worth every tear and every sleepless night. It's beautiful!
Y’know, there’s actually some stuff in there that was actually good advice.
I usually just quit my projects too. Fortunately, luck stayed on my side. I started making a show on RUclips, and I currently just finished episode 2 of season 2. To be able to finish a long project with long projects INSIDE of the project, you need a ton of determination to finish it at the very beginning.
4:21 Focus on one step of the project. Write a paragraph to summarize the film. Come back to it later.
Also, focus on rough animations like storyboard and animatics.
6:50 For comics, one step could be “Rough thumbnails.”
7:38 Simplify pipeline.
Remove certain steps, like “colors”, multiple programs, shadows, or lights. Just get the job done. Worry about the details later.
9:30 Think about achievable projects. Small projects that you can definitely finish. It doesn’t have to be long, or too detailed. Just make a project you can do.
Thank you for all your advices! I’ll try to make good use of them!
I can relate to this! Sometimes, I feel overwhelmed because I feel like i'm the only one who does all the work with doubts and fear.
I need to start before getting overwhelmed 😩😂
My current passion project idea is to just try and see if I can make a 6 min animatic/storyboard video to a song. With like an extra minute or two of extra stuff played during the credits.
If I can even get that far, I'll be happy. Then maybe on day I could flesh it out. This helped me figure out how I'd need to start it.
Thank you for making this video, and simplifying the process of making a project. I was dealing with the same problem, and I feel these tips will motivate me more 👍
Its amazing, I was just ruminating how I need to change up my work flow because the way I'm currently doing it is to overwhelming. Then this video gets posted, thanks for that.
I have been feeling too tired whenever I try to draw something for months now and this video is kind of a cool surprise
Currently watching this video as I'm procrastinating an animated project I'm doing for school that is due very soon.
I love your perspective on stuff like this!
Focusing on one piece of the project at a time and providing myself with really clear limitations from the get go has really helped me a lot. I'd love to hear a continuation on this topic from you :D
Awesome! Love you’re talking about this topic❤️❤️❤️
I'm making my way through a big personal project now, and the sheer volume of work I have left to do really hit me earlier this week. I'm still going to keep my nose to the grindstone and finish it, but it's still a very exhausting feeling sometimes.
What I've found works best for me in situations like this is having a good autopilot. Kinda like when a long-distance runner zones out and lets their body do the work, I put on a stream in the bg and try to zone out during the more tedious areas.
Prefect timing. Thank you 💖
I have a overwhelming work that is so far too great. It is being completed and looking better and better.
This video was very timely as I'm currently working on a big summer break animated project! Thanks for the tips and encouragement!
Thanks Toniko, Such good advice. Really needed to hear all of this right now from a pro.
I was just feeling overwhelmed about this !! ✨️Perfect timing. Thank you !!
toniko could you please make tutorial ''how to animate more easier \ simple way
" ty....
Wow, your
video came to me at such a perfect time; and finding out it's so recent makes me believe something bigger is happening. :P
It came on its time a nice video that'll help me with my passion for animation 😭💟💟
Can you also talk about visa's and how to work abroad???
That used to happen with me. Not now. The projects I'm working on now keeps me too interested to stop.
I love your channel and chang dong and bam animation 😢💘💘
This guy knows me like he is inside me. Man
1st is crazy
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Could you talk more about making animated vignettes for graphic novels? How can we break down our visual static project to extract ideas from a story moment to make an animated vignette? (I know that we need to choose a scene that has a significant impact on the plot or character development. But how a person will understand a vignette? I know that mood can sell an idea, but would you have more tips for us?)
Simplifying stuff is way harder for me ironically, like as an example idk how to make simple looking lineart that looks good, and I get conflicting feedback from people (they're illustrators though) saying maybe I shouldn't be forcing myself to do that anyway
It's like my brain is wired to go from complex to simple rather than the other way around and it sucks
SO REAL OMG
One thing I’ve noticed myself doing the last year is spending a bunch of time working out a technical problem in my head then not wanting to do the actual clicking. I don’t know if it’s because I feel like I’ve already accomplished it or what
Have you sent a film to a festival and could one of your videos be about that if you did. I’m an asset artist so it’s other people who send their films to festivals.
do you have any advice on writing something in a different setting but making that feel genuine? I have this plot idea and I want it set in the 1970s but I don’t want it too feel to modern or stereotypically 70s-ish”
Maybe read stuff published from that decade? As a kid I thought it was interesting that I could notice that Beverly Clearly stories were written in different decades. Also listening to videos or biographies that have sections about that time period. I had a family members house that didn't change from the 70s. The shag carpet and knitted/crochet details everywhere made it smell very dusty. Plastic on the couch and knitted pillows. Also a emphasis on framed photos and art.
@@BibleArtFashion thanks!
Everytime when I start something...
what program do u use for animation
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those dancing girls kkk
hey , why you dont workin in KRITA ?
Great video. But for the future, you might want to stop including clips of attractive women in the background. They make it kinda hard to focus
What are you looking at? 😏