WHAT?! 10 DAYS WITHOUT A POST?!

Well, it's not like a very good excuse, but I was too embarrassed by the fact that in between these days I've been playing around with After Effects and Vegas and stuff, so I was completing a lot less progress than on any given day. My lowest record was 5 seconds, and my highest was like 10 or 11, still under the 12 second goal. So anyways, I am very pleased to announce the last scene was completed. Don't get it wrong, it's the last scene of the episode, but it's not the last scene I'm gonna animate LOL. Because a friend of mine never send me the recordings of her character until around last week, I wasn't able to include her part in Scene 1, so I opted to skip it and simply continue with the next ones. So it's too hard for me to randomly make space where it's supposed to go within Scene 1, so I'm gonna simply make a new scene, and with my friend Actionscript, redirect the frame that goes before the scene I'm gonna add, and redirect it with Actionscript to the next scene. Piece of cake. For now, I'm gonna leave you the yet-unfinished episode two. You can see what I have to do now, as mouths are uncoloured and un-tweened.

Oh, humanity...

I am so freaking retarded. Oh, my God! You may notice I could finally upload a video, but you see, when I tried to upload any video, I pressed the Video button in the Toolbar, then this came up, that said something like: 0B/7.82MB. I thought the number was supposed to go up as the video uploaded, but I actually had to press upload to make the process start. Come on! I know that was sooo stupid, don't judge me LOL.

Now, today wasn't a really good day. I said I would try to do some 12 seconds today just to maintain an average of 12 seconds per day, but I could only finish eight. I know I haven't been really accurate on the time, but I can finally leave you the video for you to see. Now with numbers, I have now around 46 seconds of the sixth scene. (There are seven on the .fla file, it was due to Scene 5 being too long for Flash to take all at once.)

First Day of School... The day to attack your slack?

So today was the first day of school in this "post-apocalyptic" 2013. It was actually supposed to be yesterday, but my school is weird, I mean, who the hell starts a week on Tuesday? Anyways, so every year, on the night before school started, I would be like: "Yeah, this is gonna be a kick-ass year! I'm gonna wake up at five tomorrow!" And I did, but, is it really worth it?

I mean, Monday: Very positive, you give it all you got. Tuesday: Positive, you are eager to continue, but feel a little bit tired. Wednesday: You start to lose interest, it was not worth it. Thursday: Wow, how could I make such an effort on Monday, geez. Friday: Ughhh, stupid day, finish off, already!

Then it's downhill from that point, you start to lose interest and end up exactly how you hated you would end up like. LOL. That has happened to me throughout the years. Every single year since 2006 or 2007 it's like: "Come on, just six more months to go! We gotta do this!" And three days later: "(MOANS LOUDLY) Why-y-y-y-y???!!!"

To me, today was a blur. I guess that's how things are for most people. The classroom is full of noise. People are interested in hearing your new stories, jokes, and what you did during these two weeks. For almost everyone, today marked the end of a happy two weeks of no responsibilities and noon-waking-up, they were not really happy to come back.

I was really happy to come back. Not that I am some sort of genius, nor I love school whatsoever, but I simply had nothing to do around these weeks. Of course, my animation, but I hate routines. You don't need more than 2 days of doing the same thing over again to make me lose my mind. The first week flew by, it was Christmas time and New Years with family, and that was pretty interesting. But, God! I started my routine in January 4th and did the exact same thing for the next three days. It was madness.

I woke up at 9:30 (I tried 7:30, but... No.) had breakfast, watched TV, slacked off, and was anxious to get to the computer to work on my animation, my blog, and my American Idiot play. Finished at around 10:30, slacked off more, watched TV and went to bed at midnight. This is like, the first time I've been happy to go to school. God, what is wrong with me?!

Back to the cartoon

Yup, I think I got a little bit carried away, but hey, this is a great place to give your opinion to people, which I will still do, for projects right now, I'm thinking of writing about the unrealistic aspects of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

But until then I guess we're stuck with the classics. On the other hand, I am also writing a down-scaled, censored version of American Idiot The Musical to see if we can perform it in a school play at the end of ninth grade (Holy crap!). I am not writing it, per se, but I am watching the recorded version of the musical at what appears to be Broadway in New York City. I have around 10 minutes or seven pages, but I am on my way, I am on winter vacations right now and school starts Tuesday, so I'm gonna push myself to the limits to see if I can get it done by then.

Why so much of a rush? Well, the teacher wants us to do Camp Rock (belch and shudder). I think most people disagree with that, but there are some people who likes it but wouldn't mind doing American Idiot instead. Besides, if I finish, the teacher will most likely say yes, because well... She has nothing and I already did half of the work.

So today was a regular day because I need to balance my time between animation and writing the play. Today I completed ten seconds. That brings my three day average (Since I started to draw again) to around 13 seconds, which is a tad bit above my goal. I made a whopping 18 seconds on the first day, then 10 and 10 on yesterday and today. I need to make 12 or 13 tomorrow if I want to get this done fast.

I also got an idea for an episode of season 2, I think I'll call it "Dereks Wanna Have Fun" or "Dereks Just Wanna Have Fun" The episode is about Derek getting a TV show, which sucks, but a girl becomes obsessed with his character and asks him to date her. He agrees, but the girl takes things too fast, and is later proven to be a sadomasochist, hahaha. It's up to April to save him because the other guys are on a Guys Night and stuff.

Holiday Madness

So yeah, I know the holidays already ended and stuff, but I haven't had any time to post this.

Apart from the usual same thing of going far away to visit family, to me, the Thanksgiving-New Year's time is nothing more than a 2-month guilt trip.

You see, I'm not deeply religious nor have anything against Christian believes, but the consumerism on the Holidays is a thing which I find vile and grotesque.

I am not American myself, but I came across this Walmart store in Eagle Pass, TX for a stopover while on my way to visit family, and what I saw was simply disgusting. The store was a mess.

It was December 23rd and the entire store was flipped over, everything was out of place, there was not much people in the store, but you could imagine the amount of people there had been there last night.

Consumerism cracks to the Number One spot of the things I hate the most in life,k and it's precisely what we see the most in department stores like Walmart and Target. People cramming junk into their carts, fighting over the last item in a shelf... "This Is Madness!", as my good friend Gerald Butler would say.

Why madness? Simply because of the fact that, let's face it, you don't need even half of what you're buying. Therefore we're wasting, both, resources and money unreasonably, and worse than that, excessively.

"Well, I got the money to buy this." As someone would say. You know, I once watched a very good documentary in Chemistry class, it was called "How Stuff Works" or something like that, and it's right! Seriously, can five dollars pay for the amount of workers, the amount of resources, and the amount of fuel needed to manufacture and take to Target or Walmart this alarm clock?