One word of advice, leave out the reference to atheism in your Amazon write up. It has nothing to do with your books and will only serve to put people off. People won't buy your books just because you are an atheist.
Life is not a meritocracy. It's not just a matter of how good people are, it's also a matter of how much time they spend working on making something good enough to compete and finding your niche. It's a matter of logistics. You cannot compete in the same way. You need to think of doing something different. Like an interactive book with animated gifs for use on a tablet for example. Put the same amount of effort into a clip a few seconds long for example and make it perfect.
Have you ever seen that animation of an alien singing to Glora Gaynor's I will survive? It took him nine months to do it. You can read up about the attention to detail here. This landed the creator a job at Pixar. Now think about hundreds of animators giving the same attention to detail for every scene in an entire film.
Take your title animation for example. It's quite long and while there are some moves which are OK, there are many where the character seems to float into position. But it's obvious that you considered that you had worked long enough on it and needed to move on. What you should have done is had it shorter and made every second of it professional quality. This is of paramount importance because this is a demonstration to the viewer of the kind of quality they can expect.
You need a different mindset to the one that you have now. You need to be more flexible and be prepared to do something different even if you are emotionally invested in having spent so much time in it. Don't throw good money (or time) after bad. And don't think that something is good enough because you are getting bored. Know for sure that every second is good enough.
(August 5, 2015 at 5:32 pm)ILoveMRHMWogglebugTE Wrote: Still, as for my animated movies, you need to understand that expecting complete perfection along the lines of Pixar or Dreamworks from them is TOO MUCH. Because the people at those studios are teams of hundreds of programmers and suchlike. I just work by myself and have a limited (in comparison) quantity of tools to work with in my program.
(August 23, 2015 at 5:40 am)ILoveMRHMWogglebugTE Wrote: And I know I eventually will need to turn over the animation to more professional people but not before I've started with what I have available to me now.
Life is not a meritocracy. It's not just a matter of how good people are, it's also a matter of how much time they spend working on making something good enough to compete and finding your niche. It's a matter of logistics. You cannot compete in the same way. You need to think of doing something different. Like an interactive book with animated gifs for use on a tablet for example. Put the same amount of effort into a clip a few seconds long for example and make it perfect.
Have you ever seen that animation of an alien singing to Glora Gaynor's I will survive? It took him nine months to do it. You can read up about the attention to detail here. This landed the creator a job at Pixar. Now think about hundreds of animators giving the same attention to detail for every scene in an entire film.
Take your title animation for example. It's quite long and while there are some moves which are OK, there are many where the character seems to float into position. But it's obvious that you considered that you had worked long enough on it and needed to move on. What you should have done is had it shorter and made every second of it professional quality. This is of paramount importance because this is a demonstration to the viewer of the kind of quality they can expect.
You need a different mindset to the one that you have now. You need to be more flexible and be prepared to do something different even if you are emotionally invested in having spent so much time in it. Don't throw good money (or time) after bad. And don't think that something is good enough because you are getting bored. Know for sure that every second is good enough.
