Holy crap, it’s been so busy over here lately. We’ve been cranking on some stop motion puppetry at work for the past 3 weeks, but we’ve finally finished shooting so now it’s all in post. It’s a pretty cool project and I’m pretty excited for it. I think it’s one of the first things I’ve worked on in development that’s really gone through to production. Seriously, before this project started I was going through my sketchbook and noticing that just about none of my work related ideas had made it to final production. I was getting kind of frustrated with the whole process. But this thing we’re working on now is mostly based on my style frames and character designs, which makes me happy.
On top of that I’ve just wrapped up a logo + site design (though that hasn’t launched it). I’m in the middle of laying out a 200 page book about DIY projects that’s due very soon. And I might be starting on a music video for one of my favorite bands soon. I have no idea how I suddenly got so busy. I use to not take on side projects because I was into having spare time and a social life. But it just so happens that these projects are all pretty fun and exciting and I have a hard time turning them down. It also sort of doesn’t feel like work to me most of the time because I just like making things. I’m not sure what I’d be doing with my spare time other than making things anyways (maybe exercising more?).
So yeah. Aside from being sick (and having severe allergies) on top of all this, I’m doin pretty well. And now to layout some more pages.
Regarding the title for this post, watch this horrifying talk by Mike Rowe (of Dirty Jobs, one of my fav. shows) talk about hard work: