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New Year's Update - Polls and Animations
🕑 Added 2025-01-02 04:18:01 +0000 UTCHey all!
I hope you all had a great new year! With 2024 in the rear-view, I'm taking a look back over the past year and looking at ways that I can improve, and there's a few things that I think I'd like to try out.
Over the past year I've put out a lot of pin-ups and short sequences, and while I do enjoy making the monthly pin-up content, there hasn't been the same focus on animations that I had when I started this weird hobby. I began creating content because I was interested in learning animation, but given the few animations that I've put out this past year, trying to balance the workload between everything has gotten a bit out of hand. When I took that break in September, part of the break was to take a step back from the monthly pin-ups that I had been making for the past 2+ years and give myself some time to just make things. That break was when I started animating the NTN cycle as a spur of the moment kind of project, and I miss that spark.
Going into 2025, I want to get back into making content that I'm more invested in. While I do enjoy making the monthly pin-up content, lately I've been spending more time working on the monthly pin-up than I have on actual animations, and I think I'm just burnt out. I'd gotten comfortable putting out a monthly pin-up and leaving it at that, and it had gotten to the point where this hobby was feeling more like a job than a creative outlet.
Because of this, I'm going to be holding off on creating the monthly pin-up polls for a little while. I know that a lot of people have been enjoying the monthly spin, and it's always fun to see what gets suggested and what gets voted, but I think I need to take a step back and get back to making content that I'm excited about. I'm hoping that taking a break from the monthly polls will help get me back into the animation mindset and give me time to make some pin-ups and sequences that I haven't had the time to make. I'm definitely planning on returning to monthly pin-ups, but I'd like to give something new a shot.
Thank you all for the support you've given me this past year. Between the pin-up polls and the comments, it's awesome to see people still enjoying the content I've been making, and I'm hoping to make a lot more in 2025!
Happy new year!
Haptick
Comments
Samwise
The main reason I'm here is your animations so I'm glad there's going to be a return to them.
Haptick Animation
Thank you! It was a hard decision to make since I feel like I'd gotten more reliant on pin-ups, but I realize I'd gotten complacent with them and was more worried about getting them finished than creating something special. I def needed to change something, and I'm looking forward to getting some new things done!
Haptick Animation
For sure. I feel like I've been stagnating for a while now and I'm really excited to get back into learning new things. I miss the whole "trying to figure out one thing and learn a bunch more in the process"!
Haptick Animation
Thanks for following along! I'm really looking forward to making projects with new things to learn and ramp up the workflow!
Haptick Animation
I've been getting back into it and I'm really excited to get rolling! There's so much that I'd like to animate, it's hard to choose which ones to go for first haha
Haptick Animation
Thanks for understanding! I'd definitely like to come back to monthly pin-ups in the future, but I need a break for a bit. I may finally open commissions back up too, but I think I need to let things settle before jumping back in to custom sets.
Chris
I’m hyped for animations!
JacobWSX
Either way, I respect whatever decision you make.
JacobWSX
This way you could still do the pinups, but not spend as much time on them.
JacobWSX
Maybe instead of a monthly pinup, you could do a quarterly pinup? And maybe make the quarterly pinups longer than the monthly ones? Obviously not a lot longer than the monthly’s. Maybe around 5-6 panels?
Alexander Pontier
Thanks for telling us! More concentration mean better art!
Futazon
Artists gotta do what creatively motivates them.
RandomDudeGamer
An understandable decision you have made. We believe and respect your decision and hope you are able to catch that fire once again. So good luck this year sir!
