Monthly Archives: February 2012

Stress about today

By Neil | Published: February 24, 2012

Why do I worry so much about today?  Yesterday feels far less stressful than today, and by tomorrow, today will have become yesterday.  A year from now, today will be a whole year away, and a year ago does not stress me out at all.  I may have completely lost my train of thought, but [...]

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Create a short animated film by yourself – Part 3

By Neil | Published: February 20, 2012

Design After you have gone through the storyboarding phase of your film and have each shot sketched out, you will probably already have some ideas as to what visual style you want your animated film to have.  Now is the time to nail the details of this down. Environments Personally, I find the design of [...]

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Gaming for cheap

By Neil | Published: February 18, 2012

A video game habit can become a burden on a tight monthly budget. A few hundred dollars for the new game system and 50 to 60 dollars for each game are simply out of reach when there is hardly any money available for entertainment. On top of this, gaming consoles have such a short lifespan [...]

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A life without cars…someday

By Neil | Published: February 16, 2012

Cars are stupid.  They undoubtedly provide a level of convenience to transportation, but the overwhelming cost of car ownership is astounding me more and more. Owning a car is a financial black hole.  Every 10 years or so I have to shell out thousands of dollars for a newer car once my previous car has [...]

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Create a short animated film by yourself – Part 2

By Neil | Published: February 12, 2012

Once you have your story in mind and at least a vague idea as to what the environments and characters will look like, it is time to move on to the storyboarding phase. What is it? Storyboarding is basically drawing a quick sketch of each shot and action in your film.  If the thought of [...]

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Escapism: Dream up the life you want

By Neil | Published: February 10, 2012

I am not going to go into whether or not engaging in escapist behavior has merit.  As with anything in life, escapism can be taken too far and distorted in an unhealthy way, but the need for it is real due to the unending list of imperfections in our world. I am also not going [...]

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The Wandering Man

By Neil | Published: February 4, 2012

The wandering man had been walking alone for the past ten years of his life.  Not once had he spent more than one day in any town, and not once had he entered the borders of a town with more than several thousand residents.  He was just another stranger to the stores he entered to [...]

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