This is my first blog post! I'm not entirely sure how often I'll update this blog, but I'll still have this here if I wanted to.

Between Late January and Early July of 2024, I made a bunch of animations using A program called Wick Editor. Originally, I didn't really post them anywhere as I was making them for fun and wasn't too concerned about having an audience, but now I really feel like there are people out there will like them. Today, I have decided to post all of them on my Youtube Channel. I wasn't able to post all of them today as there is a daily upload limit, but I'm sure I'll be able to post all of them by tomorrow! :P

GO TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL!

I've recently started work on a new animation, when I first started making progress on it I noticed that I wasn't very happy with how it was turning out and I started stressing about the fact that it doesn't look like how I want it to. This is a problem that I run into a lot with my animations and it's really kept me from fully appreciating my work. I have an idea in my head, and when I start carrying it out it doesn't end up looking like how I envisioned and then I start stressing about getting it to look like how I want it to and I start losing interest. This is also the reason why I don't make animations as much as I did when I first discovered Wick Editor. I was just more motivated to make them, so I wasn't as worried about the distance between what I want and what I got.

Sometime between Mid 2023 and Early 2024, I heard of this thing called Wine. Wine is a program that lets you run Windows Executables on other operating systems (In my case it's MacOS) and a couple days ago it came back into my head so I decided to install it via Homebrew. Since I don't have any real reasons to use Wine, I've just been using it to run old Windows apps (e.g. some demo for a random Scooby Doo game I downloaded on the Wayback Machine) and not for anything practical. A part of me feels like I should've done something like this earlier when I was doing my experiments with Macintosh, but thats because Macintosh was the only emulator that I knew of at the time that could get these older programs to run. Prepare to see a bunch of stuff relating to Wine for the next however long this whole thing peaks my interest for! :P

You may have noticed a large amount of inactivity from me some time around Mid September. Here are a few reasons for this.

1. Mental Health

I’ve been feeling a bit all over the place mentally as far back as November 2023 (though it might have even started around the peak of the pandemic). 2024 just hasn’t been a good year for me and it’s had way too many twists and turns for me to be comfortable. The year round allergies that I’ve been having this year probably hasn’t been helping.

2. Motivation

I’ve talked about this before in earlier blog post, but I have lots of ideas that I never really have the motivation or finish or even start. I have recently been thinking about making animatics for my animations which could solve this problem, so I’ll try doing that the next time I feel good enough to make something.

3. School

School has taken up a lot of my time and I just haven’t had the free time to work on anything, and the moment I do, I just use it to procrastinate.

I’ll try and find the strength to make something at some point this month, but that’s not a guarantee.

I was experiencing some mental instability around Early October, the reasons of which are a bit too personal for me to feel comfortable sharing on the internet. For this reason, I haven't really been that active on my social media accounts. It started to get much worse towards the later part of October as I starting to lose sleep because of the mental instability that I was experiencing. I've been feeling a bit more stable since last week and my sleep has been getting better, so I'll probably be active again in a few weeks!