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Well,

Progress has been somewhat slow. I've more or less been distracted by a bunch of annoying factors. I doubt the game will be done by the end of the year, but once it's finished I'll be hiring an artist and starting immediately, which I'm looking forward to. It will be interesting to see how fast I can develop a game when the main source of my procrastination is taken out of the picture.

On a side note, I'm going to start animating with flash daily. Even though I don't have time for stuff that takes too long, I think it will be helpful to do some 15 minute roughs.

Consider this an accurate representation of dealing with programming errors.

How is Flash for line animation? Fun.

How is it for coloring?

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Animation again.

Took at shot at doing something short animation with color. Again trying to figure out an easy way to animate the head without too much fiddling. Kinda failed -__-

Also, if I had one complaint about raster animation, it's that there are no good programs for it..

How difficult is it really to have a simple pencil tool, onion skinning, basic transform tools, and a timeline? Everything out there is mess..

Rough head turn practice, or boy engrossed by ping pong match?

Either way, he has no neck.

It's always an odd feeling when I start animating characters, because I'm so used to drawing hair different every time. With animation, you have to keep it more or less consistent, so it's a bit tougher. I look forward to doing some animations with actual moving hair, though.

Anyhow, maybe next time I'll animate something you guys would actually want to see, rather than boring 3 frame sketches -__-