Gianni 2011-02-07 10:18:40

Don't make promises you can't keep!

dirtshake 2011-02-07 11:06:54

When I briefly tried making more than one cartoon at once to get my ass to do something I found that it worked pretty damn good. It helped during those times when you just can't focus on making your movie because your mind is thinking of another movie or something else. When you reach that point where you want to take a break and work on something else, or play a video game, you have another movie to work on.

I'd advise keeping them in different production stages though. For example, and this applies to your shit very well, if you have one movie where you're working on an intense FBF heavy fight scene and one day you just don't feel like animating three million frames, you can work on another movie that needs some backgrounds done or some ambient shots finished. Or maybe you can draw out the animatic of something. The same works in reverse too, for those times when you NEED to animate some people getting their asses beat instead of lip syncing a plot moving scene.

Just don't do more than two at once, because then you'll be like me and have dozens of started projects at various stages of completion and very few finished products.

lenkalamari 2011-02-07 14:33:14

save the shorter cartoon for weekends only

OutcastLabs 2011-02-07 18:26:23

I've been doing that ever since I started using Flash, and that never gave me problems. I'd give you advice, but my dick doesn't need maximum suckage right now.

LewToons 2011-02-07 18:33:56

i got these cheeeese burgersss

SpamClamberton 2011-02-07 18:53:20

I generally find if I start on a second project when I'm already working on a bigger project, I instantly start hating the bigger project and never want to go back to it because I've let myself taste freedom.

ChocolateChipCookies 2011-02-07 20:32:47

If it's anything like shuffling through four AP classes I'd say fuck it.

Vortex00 2011-02-07 21:15:14

Make them all loosely related to each other. That way you can bounce to different things when you get tired of one of them, but they all work towards the same goal.

dirtshake 2011-02-08 19:46:43

If you mean uniform production on three or four toons at once and you don't want to lose focus on any of them, than you'd have to plan out your production phases and stick them with some self discipline.

The way I'd do it would be to get the pre-production out of the way on ALL of them first. I assume you want to produce three or four episodes of Necropolis at once and release them in cycle or something. I'd say write the scripts for all of them and finalize them at the same time. Get them to a place where you like them and SAVE THEM!!! Don't change them. Save them in multiple places (on and off line), print them, staple them to your head, just stick to them. Then get all the voices and music for them within a few days time so you have all the resources you need. Then plan a week where you get all of the animatics and other shit shit done for them. So after, lets say a two week period of time you have the voices, music, maybe sound effects, and animatic done for three or four toons. Saved and backed up. NOW YOU ARE COMMITTED TO THESE TOONS!

Then plan your work week so production comes along at roughly an equal pace on all of them.

Monday - Work on Necrotoon 1
Tuesday - Work on Necrotoon 2
Wednesday - Work on Necrotoon 3
Thursday - Work on Necrotoon 4
Friday - Drink or get caught up on homework
Saturday - Relax and homework
Sunday - Relax and homework

Or you could split it up however you want, but just make sure that during the week you work at least one day on one of your toons. You just have to stay motivated and keep getting shit done every week on each toon. When you finish one, work double time on the others.

And if you REALLY hate working on one or several toons during that "I need something new" phase of production that we all reach, work on something fun during the weekends. Make a spam flash or something, but NEVER slack on the toons or they'll never get finished and you'll post a carbon copy of this post in a few months with a different picture at the bottom.

And yes, you are a response whore. Don't be afraid to ask people what's up, but once you commit to a project finish it. Get feedback on the script and animatic, both of which are infinitely easier to change than a full on animation.

Anyways I'm running out of space now so I'm going to shut the fuck up.

ColdReaver 2011-02-10 05:46:59

Man it's real tough, that's why I had a hard time submitting stuff lol. Taking on too many projects can be a hassle

Snackle 2011-02-18 23:48:45

Just get that shit done.

PiGPEN 2011-02-22 18:21:37

>I'm such a response whore, the first thing I want to do with everything is get feedback from it.
That's what IM people are for.