Sorry I flubbed my March deadline for a new animation

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I didn't really want to post a whiny update to my Subscribestar, so I'll just put it here.

I only had the one from February of chubby Twilight Sparkle and I'm still working on the Midna one. I have the assets for the Midna one like 95% done now and a new Twilight Sparkle/Spike followup I'm working on.

I kind of personally aimed for like one released animation per month for my Subscribestar and that might be a bit pie in the sky, like, sometimes the work they need exceeds my expectations/mental stamina while working on them. I also had crippling depression in March where I would just crawl into bed, have vivid dreams, wake up, eat, go back to bed. Not good.

Well, I did see a psychiatrist at the end of March and she put me on Caplyta and I'm working on tapering my other antidepressants (Latuda, Effexor) out and just trying one drug at a time and staying steady on Depakote of 225 mg. So far, it seems to be lifting me out of a major depressive spell so fingers crossed. I also used my healthcare which gives a free membership code to get a gym membership at one of 24 hour gyms nearby.

*Does anyone else notice engagement on Inkbunny is kind of low? Where did everybody go? I know I was absent a long time and some people might not be active anymore, but I kind of expected more traction with animation than I really got...

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caramelthecalf

4 weeks, 1 day ago

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one a month is a bit much. I think one every two months is more sustainable. Like when i read about animators, they might do like a couple minutes of animation a year, and most of the time they only do one section of it (storyboarding, penciling, inking, coloring). So maybe a real maximum is like 30 seconds a year, and even then only if it made a living worth of money, so it could be focused on.

To speed things up, sometimes people rotoscope, you can get plushies or dolls, record the motions, then draw over. Ralph Bakshi basically rotoscoped the hell out of stuff.

ButtercupSaiyan

4 weeks ago

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@ caramelthecalf

Maybe if I was doing more frame by frame. I absolutely do pull out a camera for references and use 3d models to get a gist.

caramelthecalf

4 weeks ago

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Yes, the engagement appears to be lower, but I think on an individual basis, probably on the whole it's grown some. Due to there being more artists on the site, art only briefly shows on recent, and a lot of people compete for the front page. I think it's more that social media is more prevalent, in addition the people on here probably follow so many artists, they might done looking for the day sometimes before seeing a specific person's art.

I think the strategy could potentially be is to post drawing/gif updates as new image posts. Then when you release the final image, updating all those submissions "Find the completed drawing here: link"

Daneasaur

2 weeks, 3 days ago

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Lots of people are leaving or freezing their IB pages due to the admins freely permitting AI junkies to flood and scrap all users content. You can put out godly content but folks who are not around simply won't see it.

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