W2H2 Update! (Patreon)

Oof, okay so just to get you guys up to speed, here's what's up!

As many of you probably know, I'm always going back and forth between working on W2H2 and working a job.  The cycle goes like this:
Take a job and make some money (this takes away my time to work on W2H2) --> Work on W2H2 once the job ends (this takes away, well, my money.)

This past year I had a freelance gig that lasted WAY longer than I thought it would, and I hate to complain about being employed, especially in an industry with notoriously short employment contracts, but I've been trying to only take relatively short contracts so I can stay active on W2H2.  A year or so ago I took some jobs that lasted 2-3 weeks, and that was PERFECT.  (I mean, it's not.  It's still highly irresponsible in terms of being a functioning human in society, but it's perfect in terms of balancing "having income" with "doing personal work").  So I was on this gig for ... I think 9 or 10 months?  It was almost a year.  

Anyway, once the gig was up (haaaa) in... November I think?  I busted ASS working on the W2H2 animatic, because when I finally got a chance to open it and re-watch it, it was SO rough you guys.  There were scenes that were like... scrapped together from discarded boards and all kinds of awful shortcuts, because I figured "I'm the only one looking at it, as long as I know what's supposed to happen here, it's fine".  

But it wasn't fine.  Because I needed to show it to people for feedback.  And I just couldn't bring myself to do that in the state it was in.  So I fixed up some scenes that needed it most, and I really tried to articulate some sequences that I think needed more movement to really sell what was happening.  And I'm really proud of those!  Because I don't normally put that much work into my own animatics!  I can't share them right now, but I'd like to eventually.  

So anyway, I've shared it with all my closest animator friends and screenwriters, and I've gotten some GREAT feedback, and it's SOOOOO, SO CLOSE to being locked down.  I've just got a few little transitional things to tweak so that the whole thing flows better, and I need to re-record just a feeeeww more lines for Jonathan (which should happen some time this week or next!), and it'll basically be where I need it.

There's a few pieces I've started animating (I've posted some of them), but most of the film has dialogue in it, (as opposed to the 1st one, which has a huge chunk that's silent - Sock haunting Jonathan on his first day) so I really need to make sure it's all locked down first.  

Otherwise, there's been a few things piling up lately that I just NEED to take care of (taxes, applying for things, blah blah blah), finishing up one more shot for South Park Reanimate (which shouldn't take THAT long), and... honestly, getting my fuckin' Jeep fixed.  That's a whole 'nother story too, but you guys aren't here for my TEDtalk on how a starter pulley bracket can just fall the fuck off, apparently.  "It's a Jeep Thing", they said.  IT SURE IS.

Anyway.  There you have it.  That's where I'm at right now and hopefully I can get moving into full-on animation pretty soon!   Thanks for the support, guys.