The Animator

Okay maybe its not as small of a rant as I thought...

Also, I get sidetracked and change the topic so many times but Im not going to clean it up. This is my pure, unadulterated thoughts.

I hate having so many big projects that end up unfinished. They just keep piling up and sitting there till they eventually get canned. Ugh. I never have enough time or motivation to finish themmm. And yeah, I could start taking it easier and making small things, but the small things are never good enough to me. I hate my standards. I hate my standards. I hate my standards. Why are my standards so high if im mediocre at best??? I have so much potential that I can't for the life of me squeeze out. The worst part is knowing that nobody even cares in the first place! People just love to say "Oh dont beat yourself up, I dont think its so bad," BUT THATS NOT THE PROBLEM. The problem is that I dont think its good enough. And if its not good enough to me, its pointless. So essentially, the smaller scale things are never good enough for me to upload and the larger scale things are too time consuming and ambitious for me to finish.

I doubt literally any of that made sense, but it doesnt matter. Its a rant- just a way to complain about the minor inconveniences in my life that will never go away and that will continue to cause tremendous self doubt! You know, just a minor inconvenience at best!

God, I sound miserable

@Pluggg

this is legit exactly how i feel 98.32% of the time..

BEFORE I START THIS RANT I AM NOTTTTT MISERABLE I GENUINELY LOVE MY LIFE

for as long as i can remember ive been considered by a bunch of people as an extremely good artist (no self glaze i swear) so it always leaves me feeling like my art or animations are never good enough. I feel like i’ve got a LOT of potential but im just too much of a lazy person to use it. I’ve been learning anatomy for 2 months or so, but as soon as i actually started trying to learn, i became actually good. (i seriously started 2 weeks ago.) so im feeling just mediocre whenever i finish something. Im a really quick learner and im really good at art, but i just can NEVER pick up something permanently and keep learning it. So yeah, i get how you feel man.

AGAIN, IM NOT MISERABLE I SWEAR

Omg this is sooo real 😭

I know this thread is super old, but ima add to it

I DON'T HATE THIS STUFF BTW

So, there was this HUGE animation of a music video I was going to make. However, I was very new to The Animator, and I realized that I couldn't do it. I didn't even know about layers yet, and I felt pretty bad about failing. This made me stick to small-ish animations for probably until my medium-sized 150th animation. Now, I am trying not just a big animation, but MULTIPLE big animations that include other animators...

😬

@Pluggg

AGAIN, I'M NOT HATING THIS STUFF AND I THINK I AM READY