Christmas update (filler...)

Well, this is disheartening and stressful. Despite working myself completely exhausted, I could not complete the full Christmas animation this year, which I had planned since 2014, but didn’t decide to start before the end of November this year... This makes me sad. ಥ‸ಥ I hate revealing unfinished work, so I won’t... I will however throw in this happy little present-shaker Koakuma loop! This was made to loop during the end credits and carry no significance to the video, so I’ll make something more relevant for... ugh, next year. I wrote a Halloween Entry a month ago, to tell everyone what was up (and why more delays!) but my G page is rarely visited and I don’t blame people, I rarely use it myself. Here’s a quick version My WACOM Cintiq 21UX digitizer tablet burned out in September, after 10 years of formidable, near-daily service. I found a replacement, but it took nearly a month for it to arrive, so that’s a whole month lost, on waiting. This is NOT the project I was mentioning previously in my Tail Concerto animation, but due delay and actually gaining a bit of Christmas Mood this year, I decided I wanted to make a quick one. (this was planned, as mentioned. back in 2014). I would have finished this, no problem, if I had just 2-3 more days... which is exactly the time I lost, thanks to unwanted delays. Let’s start off with a bit of a mood-killer. I’m giving an honorable mention to my mother’s poor chubby Cocker Spaniel, who passed away (put to sleep) the 2nd of December, after a sudden cancer tumor had developed in/near his prostate, at the age of 11. Despite not being my dog, I was quite close to him too and took care of him often. Seeing him go in such a state, was quite tragic and it definitely put me off mood to animate. Over the days, I composed myself and agree... THIS was a happy dog. He lived 11 happy year, became a father of 9 and always had a tummy full of yummy food, so I can by happy and proud to have been a part of his life! Fare thee well, ol’ ’Anton’. Another thing, was that I was asked to do, was escort my mother to a municipality meeting, because she is in a very bad state (alcoholism, but I’ll get to that at a later point...). I was glad I went, but it also took a day away. Despite asking for it, back in mid. October, it wasn’t until two days before Christmas, that the Hospital could take me in for an inspection of a possible Polinidal cyst, that may have developed due to intense physical exercise over the past months. Turned out to be nothing. Nothing but another busy December day ticking away. Finally, a nice Christmas dinner with family. I cannot say no to that. I admit, though. Even during that, my mind fidgets and bounces, thinking of how many frames of animation I could have completed during my time away, haha! These past two days, I’ve been washing down more-than-safe amounts of Energy Drinks with few hours sleeps to try and catch up, but my eyes are dry and sore. My brain feels like final stage (BGM) of Giygas battle on full volume and I can only imagine this is the mental health and state similar to the Korean guy who played Diablos III for non-stop for 3 days and died. (Can’t say I want that to happen), SO.... for my own safety, I’m delaying this, for NEXT year. Beh. ⩌‸⩌ The video also had Yukkuri voices... I’ll do something about that for next year. That didn’t fit AT all, haha! I’m going to get a looong night’s worth of sleep! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone! ⓛ⩊ⓛノ ―――――――――― Credits: Touhou (東方) Project and characters © ZUN, Team Shanghai Alice Animation: Daniel Renard (me)