Especially the past four days, tuesday to friday.
Something inside of me turned me into a machine. I have been dedicated to the animations for the game to an extent that I'm pretty sure classifies me as obsessed. It's as if there's a spigot of work ethic inside of me that opened up and told me "WORK!!".
I have slept a total of 10 hours over the past 4 days. In that time I modeled two additional characters, animated all of the hero's sprites(111), another 121 sprites for the Skeleton enemy, and another 121 for the Knight and all of his actions.
So The Designer said he wrapped up the demo we've worked on for IGF and now it's just a matter of waiting.
In the mean time though, my work ethic doesn't feel like it's fading, so i'm still plugging away. I made a walk cycle for the skeleton character, and all of the character portraits. I've also resolved to do at least one walk and one run cycle every week. Since I was able to make something passable in about 40 minutes, I think that using a bit of my free time over the course of a week and fordcing myself to create full action cycles within this time frame will be great practice. On second thought, I'm thinking that the rules I impose myself should be one movement cycle(running, hopping, walking, skipping, swimming, etc....) and one non-cyclical action.
Also, i'm going to see if I can get myself to start consistantly sketching. I draw for my classes, but my ethic towards drawing extra-carricularly is significantly below where I want it to be.
With that said, here are the three reference sketches for the 3 characters i've modeled so far. I'll upload that characters themselves later on.
Knight, an enemy character.
Skeleton. Inspired by the Ray Harryhausen skeletons in Jason and The Argonauts.
Lastly we have the protagonist....of DOOM!!I had almost forgotten that convention(of DOOM!) that I intended to use at some point in every post....of doom.
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It's the "drive" that you're thinking of. It's the bit that tells you, "I can do this better, because I'm doing it for myself." The dangerous thing is that once you start, once you open that spigot (of Doom no less), it becomes very hard to turn it off again.
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