THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Things got tough last Friday. I managed to turn in the section of my board that was high priority on Wednesday.  I thought I was home free Thursday and all I had to do was finish the less high priority, half of my section.  I had a regular eight hour day that day.  I had been working overtime just about every night. On Friday, because of 4th of July, the studio was going to close at 2pm. I was looking forward to going home early, only at midday, I got told that the section I had turned in had revisions I had to work on.   This kinda burst my bubble.

Usually, once  you turn in a final board, any notes made on the board are taken care of in the Story Reel phase of production. Thing is, since there were so many notes on my board and it was a special high priority section, they wanted me to address the notes and make the necessary changes.

My heart sunk when I heard this.

When I was given the board with all the notes on it, my heart hit the ground.  I don’t think I’d ever seen a board with so much red.  I couldn’t help getting a upset.  Then I read the notes, and got even more upset.  Not because they were nit picky or unjust or whatever.  It would have almost been better it they were. That way, I could have yelled “foul”, and said the head director was picking on me.  But no, the reason I got more upset was because all the notes where spot on.  Just about everything he had me fix made everything better and clearer.

I became angry at myself for not getting it right the first time.  I stayed till 7pm fixing the board.  This took away time from me being able to finish the other part of the board.  This meant that at some point the following week, I would probably have to work late. If I didn’t have to do the revisions, I would have been able to get it done without staying late.

This Tuesday, I turned the fixed up, revised board.  It’s going to be sent to Fox where, more notes will be given on it.  Thankfully, the director will have to take care of those.

We had Monday off, which would have been great for me, except that it took away an entire day from me being able to finish the second part of my board.  Sure enough, I had to stay late on Wednesday in order to try to get done by Thursday afternoon.  Tuesday, I wasn’t able to work late because I had to pick up the kids from daycare.

It’s been one heck of a dramatic ride.  It reminded me a lot of what it was like to work on the movie.  Lots of “do it again” and “it’s due yesterday”.  As I get closer to finishing though, I can’t help but feel VERY satisfied with it all.  Like I’ve really DONE something. I’ve also learned a LOT.

So why the rush job? Well, it’s because…heh, I’ll tell you soon.

FAMILY

It’s been very hot.  So hot my kids got sick, or had heat stroke.  I don’t really know which.  All I know is that each suddenly came down with a one day fever on different days of the week.  We don’t know exactly what triggered it but I’m guessing it was the heat.

Now they all have colds and so do I.

MY WEEK

Wednesday is comic book day and I was so tired of working, I went to lunch with my friends and went to the comic store with them.  As usual, I didn’t buy anything, but it felt good to take a break, hang out with them and go look at comics.

Work so hard really takes a toll on the creativity.  I’ve been having a really difficult time working on any personal projects.  This is the reason I didn’t put any progress drawings this week on here.

I could have worked on stuff over the weekend. I had plenty of  leisure time. I just couldn’t do it.  I was too burned out.  That said, I DID manage to revise a TINY little bit of my treatment.  I’ll be getting to the final phase of my  “illustrated film” soon.  Just as soon as can get some creative energy back.

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