Hello and good evening. No Scene 1, Page 6. I haven't even started it. If you haven't seen Scene 1, Pages 1-5, go take a look. I wanted to do this Making Of JF because I want to end my fear of doing JF. That's right. If you look in the past and read carefully or do a full text search, you'll find that I have a complex phobia of doing JF. For eleven days, I've been to afraid to even start work on JF. Instead of doing it, I've been finding everything and anything that I can do besides JF, even physics problem sets which I am morally obligated to do. I've gone to sleep early many nights and woken up late a few nights. It's intolerable and I wish to stop it. So tonight, I thought something up and here it is. It isn't totally original. In fact, I copied it nearly directly from the front of the Henry Art Gallery brochure cover. But inspiration doesn't deny the fact that I created something of my own that I've been thinking about seperately from the inspiration for a while.. What have I been thinking about? Paneling and Martian tubes.
You know the drill, Scene 1, Pages 1-5 are up. I haven't even started Page 6, so don't ask. Ask me about this picture, but if you do that, I'll tell you what I'm writing now.
Today, I looked into history lessons to understand things that I need to know about people and corporations I may come into contact with soon. I specifically sought out two parts of the 20th Century that interest me. One was turn of the century 1900. The second one was 1960/1970. 1900 is a very interesting time. The Spanish American war started in the first ten years of the century.
So I promised Page 5 two weeks and two days ago. It didn't show. But here it is. You are forgiven for doubting my resolve since I too doubt my resolve. Doing the math conservatively places finishing JF into the year 2004 or so. What might happen to speed it up? Hiring or getting a pro-bono artist. Learning how to produce a page every other day consitently. Figuring out something incredibly important about animation. Me getting a few thousand dollars. Quitting JF for a year to come back twice as strong a year from now. These things are all pretty unlikely. The producing a page every other day consistently will place JF into March 2003, but realistically in September 2003 at earliest since the modelling that has to be done between scenes is so hard. I have 25 scenes and just about all of them have a complex scenery. Some are extremely easy, some are extremely difficult. Scene 2, 5, and 6 are about the toughest of all, thankfully. Perhaps Scene 7-25 will be so easy and fast that it boosts my productivity beyond 3 per week. But not likely. I still have a bit of work to do on the Jav model and I need to make a half-decent city for Scene 6. If you're wondering, Scene 6 will come after Scene 1, Page 8. I may or may not do Scene 2 after Scene 6. We'll see. Scene 6 will be JF Final Draft. There will be no more JF Rought Draft (hooray!). Making Of JF will happen when I'm stuck for more than three days between one page and the next or one scene and the next. I love doing Making Of JF and I'm almost sad that I've stopped. But if I do more comic pages, it will be fine with me and fine with you I bet.
