I haven't forgotten about this blog, I swear!

My last post was in mid-November, ouch. And I didn't reach my goal for releasing a new animation by the end of the year. I keep making my animations more complex which makes them take more time. The Directionless comic recently has a cross-over with Faceless Neil which was fun. I directed a live action video in January that should be posted online any day(it's out of my control).

The next animation I'll be releasing will be "A Directionless Guide to Running". It's about 85% complete. I still have to animate the final scene(rough animation has been complete) and add some backgrounds. I've started doing sound design and am about 1/3 of the way through. Hopefully it will be done within the next 2 weeks. I'm aiming for a mid-February release.

I'm hoping to make "A Directionless Guide to..." a series of shorts. I've already started another one(recorded voices) and I am writing a few more. I hope people react positively to Running, it will make me feel more confident about releasing more but I may release them regardless of the audience reaction(I will try to make each one different so even if somebody dislikes Running they may one about a different subject). 

As for other cartoons....I've started writing out another black and white Directionless short(classical music driven). I may have mentioned it long time ago on this blog, the orignal concept had nothing to do with Directionless. I started to animate it but realized it was going nowhere and dropped it. Then unrelated to that movie I heard a classical song and thought of doing another black and white Directionless movie. I merged the two concepts together and thought I had a solid idea but I still couldn't finish the story. I recently got the inspiration that fills it in nicely. As for non-Directionless material those are harder to come by, my freelance projects filled that void for myself. I still want to do another Way West-esque movie among the many shorts I've mentioned in this blog. 

I do plan on making another Brandon short come summertime(that is a part of a feature film plot line). It's more like a re-imagining rather than a remake or a sequel to my orignal short. I'm redesigning everything from the ground up and so far I'm really enjoying it.