Losing inspiration

[HizuPlague]

I've been working on the same animation for quite a while now. I'm getting really tired of animating it, and I'm only half way done with the story. I'm so tired of it I don't even want to look at it anymore. (I already took a 2 month break from it) Should I continue working on it? Should I end it right now with a totally different outcome just to get it over with? What do I do???
The reason I'm asking is, I want to move on to bigger and more awesome things, like full body animation.

Here's a screenshot of what I'm working on.

[Qackool]

I've heard that it's common for animators to have several projects working at a time.

Just make a new file with what you want to do, go as far as you want, and if you feel like you want to come back to this madness animation, then you can do so.

[Izzy-A]

If you have no motivation left, then you should probably just drop it altogether, unless you can finish it off quickly. It's probably a bad idea to work on something even bigger because you will lose interest again. Best thing to do is make several small projects and finish them fast. That can mean working at least 5-6 hours each day on it.

[HizuPlague]

At 10/31/10 01:06 PM, Izzy-A wrote: If you have no motivation left, then you should probably just drop it altogether, unless you can finish it off quickly. It's probably a bad idea to work on something even bigger because you will lose interest again. Best thing to do is make several small projects and finish them fast. That can mean working at least 5-6 hours each day on it.

Well the only reason I'm getting bored with it is because I never really like animating tiny things without arms anyway, I enjoy animating a full body.

[XxErosxX]

At 10/31/10 01:34 PM, HizuPlague wrote:

At 10/31/10 01:06 PM, Izzy-A wrote: If you have no motivation left, then you should probably just drop it altogether, unless you can finish it off quickly. It's probably a bad idea to work on something even bigger because you will lose interest again. Best thing to do is make several small projects and finish them fast. That can mean working at least 5-6 hours each day on it.

Well the only reason I'm getting bored with it is because I never really like animating tiny things without arms anyway, I enjoy animating a full body.

If u are using symbols (and you should) get ur ass in the chair and make some deep editing, redo the whole thing... with arms! make the legs longer and add shape to the body, it should take a few hours but u will have a totally new style without much work, the wonders of flash.

[flashfango]

the picture is funny. :D
i am tired of working now...

[Kieran-s]

If you can't finish it because you want to do something else the best thing is to take a break from you're project and draw/ work on you're second idea. Otherwise the second idea will be in the back of you're mind the entire time you animate the first project and it will distract you.
So just do little tests animations for you're second idea, then go back to you're first project when you feel like it.

[HizuPlague]

At 11/4/10 04:11 AM, Kieran-s wrote: If you can't finish it because you want to do something else the best thing is to take a break from you're project and draw/ work on you're second idea. Otherwise the second idea will be in the back of you're mind the entire time you animate the first project and it will distract you.
So just do little tests animations for you're second idea, then go back to you're first project when you feel like it.

I'm sorry, this is completely unrelated to anything you just told me, but why do you keep saying you are?

you are project? you are mind? you are second idea?

[Jurgen]

At 11/7/10 11:32 PM, HizuPlague wrote:

At 11/4/10 04:11 AM, Kieran-s wrote: I'm sorry, this is completely unrelated to anything you just told me, but why do you keep saying you are?

you are project? you are mind? you are second idea?

GRAMMAR NAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no but in all seriousness, i say just work on a new animation of some sort or something like that. You said yourself that you prefer full body animation over madness, so go and work on some full body.

And if you have no inspiration make a short, full body animation.

Then just leave your madness anim until/if you feel like finishing it.

Or you know, you could just stop animating in general, until you get a good idea atleast