Starting all over again …
Well, it’s time for me to once more attempt to be a serious animator – amongst all of the chaos of my usual lifestyle. I’ve tried – and previously failed – to balance my work and home life with my desires to create anime-style animation and my needs to write fiction, so the only way to become successful is to take things in stages.
First, Project Miko-chan. Originally a L5R/Clan War spinoff, I’ve previously bounced back & forth between making this an animation or just writing an original fantasy novel. This will eventually be my “main creative project” and will start out as a novel set in a look-alike fantasy world. 3D modeling and animation will eventually be integrated into the overall effort to make this an online multimedia story.
Second is the Ryusenshi project. I had originally envisioned this as an anime, but I will be using this as a training project in modeling and animation for Miko-chan. The style I’ll be using is what I jokingly refer to as “Console 3D”, in that I’ll be emulating the semi-realistic animation style used in console fighting games like Dead Or Alive. The advantage of doing it in this manner is that any character designs I create can be ported over to Miko-chan with little modification.
The last project I’m considering is BMSR, or Bishoujo Mahou Senshi Ranko. This will be my last fanfic/fanime, as I have permanently retired all other fanfic stories from Gaijin’s Realm including Relatively Absent. My problem with fanfiction is that it becomes an endless black hole for creative energies, and easily consumes all of my creative efforts even when I don’t want it to. By limiting my fanfiction writing to a single, well defined and limited storyline, I’m expecting to be able to pour the vast majority of my creative energy into Miko-chan.
Unfortunately, all of this still has to take back seat to my working life, home improvement, and my dance performances with my wife, so my ability to create will be impacted as usual. The main difference is that I’m attempting to organize and schedule my time in a more efficient manner to allow the establishment of a small but steady workflow.
We’ll see…