The Blog-thing

One of the rewards for my Kickstarter campaign is a daily tear-off calendar, with a lie from Definitely True: Year One on each page of the calendar. It’s actually at the printer being made right now (woohoo!). One of the fun things about a tear-off calendar is that it’s built exactly like a simple flipbook. So I couldn’t resist adding a little animation to the bottom of each page…

Well… It’s started…

Assuming all of the approvals go through and there are no hiccups, then within the next 24 hours, I’m going to be launching my first ever Kickstarter campaign…

So this has been circulating the interwebbernets today a bit and it got me thinking. So much so, that it got me writing here. With any luck, it’ll get you thinking, too.

You may or may not have noticed that I have a little graphic to accompany my daily lies (now being shared over on Definitely True). Well… I made that in Blender. And for fun, I recorded a timelapse of the whole process. Of course, I didn’t have any epic music to lay over the video, so instead I hastily recorded a voice over to describe the various steps I took in the process. It’s quick n’ dirty, but I think it does the job pretty nicely for now.

Wherein I try to figure out what version control system is best suited for my needs on my personal projects. Really, it’s kind of a cry for help…

Note: This blog post was made back in 2014… quite a long time ago in Internet and software development time. While the techniques described here still certainly work, the updates to Blender’s 2D animation workflow and Krita’s animation tools have made the process much more simple. A couple months ago, I was contacted…