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Hey guys, So this is the last week we're supposed to write journal entries, but I am still so far from down with this project xD Still have like 800 frames to go, which is over half. I really shouldn't be surprised that it got to this point considering I know how I work (procrastinate, procrastinate, panic, procrastinate some more) but I'm still a little shocked t how little the few hundred frames I have done actually mean. Ultimately I guess the biggest thing I learned from this was how time-intensive animation is, and I really do have a new appreciate and admiration for those who do this for a living, especially at the professional level

Heya guys, Well. There's been progress. Needless to say it's been annoying. This time I decided drawing birds flapping their wings would be a good idea, because that's easy to draw right? Goddammit why am I so unexplainably attracted to wings and feathers... So I had to draw birds this week. That was fun. There was a lot of watching slow-mo videos of birds flying, and my YouTube suggestions page is just so weird right now. But I did it. I think. It looks half decent, and the lessons I learned from before were really helpful. I was at least able to avoid having to shift everything after the fact, or erase a bunch of things because I drew the

Hey guys, Ooh boy. Not good. I was working on the animation Monday and after about 2 hours I decided it was time to rest. So I saved my work, and hit Command-Q, because short-hand. And poof. My file was gone. Literally just nowhere to be found; it was right there on the desktop and after I quit out it just disappeared. Couldn't open it in the recent files tab, couldn't find it in the trash, there were traces of it inside the Flash program, but there wasn't an actual file... So with that file went 'round about 8 hours of work, so I spent a large portion of this week catching up to where I was last week. It's a good thing I had backed up a pr