And 2015

Awww, New year, the time where you make a list of the top 10 most awesome things you did and pat yourself on the back.
Tough I already patted myself on the back too much during the IMP aniversary and april fools specials last year, so never mind.


Weird, despite having the mindset I barely did any video work this year I did have 33 new videos up. Probably because only 11 of them are animations, and 2 of those only  short sketches and IMP 41 and 42 should have been one. Meh.
Mostly dissecteds and april fool jokes this year.
Speaking of which, 2 new dissecteds:





I suppose this year was the one I made the biggest personal change, own apartment with girlfriend, completely broken off from any adult super vision, new stable job. Which while having some great perks, contains quite a lot of a weird combination of stress and boredom.
Well on my way to become a proper adult then, cool.

The boredom of the first month at my new job and the increasing social quality time, not to mention losing the luxery off immediatly burying myself in my animation work at home put me in a dark mood a few times where I was seriously contemplating giving myself some brain damage in the hope to relieve boredom.
I'm too smart for this world that constantly expects you to be locked up in rooms listening to eternal small talk.
It starts to resemble Inception a lot, you know, where dreams increase your brain speed so 5 minutes can last for 50 years in your head.
Sherlock Holmes' addiction to Heroin starts to make a lot of sense to me lately, altough I'm not quite that desperate yet. If only because I had house mates addicted to drugs for the last few years and I have absolutely no desire to follow in those idiots' footsteps.

So I deliberetly went to work with a sleep deprivation and refusing to touch any coffee the first weeks. With my brain half dead, 8 hours only last half an eternity.
It's the main reason why I dropped out on excersizing this year, last thing I need are more "my body moves but my brain just stares at the wall for hours in boredom" marathons.
This was probably a very unhealthy year for me.

Fortunately working hard paid off and I gained some extra responsibilities and extra tasks at works that make it a million times more tolerable.
But frick, what is it with jobs to just immediatly throw you inside the building with barely any instructions assuming I figure out what to do on my own all the time?
Sure, whenever I play Theme Hospital or Rollercoaster tycoon or whatever job simluation game, I also mindlessly throw the people i hire into the building without a care. No idea I was actually acting like a genuine profesional real manager whenever I did that.
I swear it took me 3 weeks before I finally deceiphered enough from my half-instructions and contradicting supervisors to figure out what my actual job was.
From suddenly having to rewrite electrictity and re-installing lamps to being responsible for the logistics of enormous cargo containers with zero experience or instructions, I get from one crazy sitaution to the next. No doubt I'll suddenly be in charge of a spinal cord surgery sometime next year.
Hey, my brain's only smart with stupid pointless things. Figuring out industrialial machinery and the logistics for cargo from thin air isn't quite my style.
Well whatever, running around in a panic is more fun then being bored, so I take it.

I got more money to spare then I have ever before.
Yay, can buy all the videogames that I want! Not that it will make me very happy since I don't have any spare time to play them in anyway. Whoo, adulthood.
Did use the money to finally get a faster computer.
Tough no matter how much smoother games play on my pc now, any Flash movie I make that's longer then 10 minutes still becomes an unstable landmine. So as far as my work is concerned, increased pc power didn't do one Iota of good.
Suppose it's time I make the jump to Flash Cs6, or wherever Flash is now.

Well despite not really having time for videogames, I did still occasionaly play one.
Started on the Assasin's creed series this year, since I like history. And punching guards from rooftops. So yay.
Nah, don't expect a parody or Dissected on that series. No inspiration so far.
Also started using Steam and it's indy games, Saturday morning RPG wich is pretty good, Jazz punk and "now THIS is what I call Sonic 4" Freedom Planet. Oh, and the new Carmageddon demo. They made destroying opponents really slow and boring again, bleh.

Uhh, usually I put up a new animation challenge for myself next year, but since I miserably failed last year's challenge, it seems kinda pointless.
Said I'd finish all the back burner projects that have been delayed for years and I haven't finished a single one. With the apartment moving and boredom deperession being a double punch to my brain this year, I 've mostly stuck to quick comfortable movies. Ah well.
Did work a bit on Kingdumb Hearts Bored to sleep, sucks I couldn't get it on time with 2.5 remix's release but I suppose there's a good chance I should get it finished this year as long as I get in a better mood.
Other future movies, well there's still a whole bunch of planned IMP episodes, all of them being blocked by voice clips missing. Working on several sketches for a non-Sonic Sega anthology video for Sonic paradox, last month's Dynamite Cop being an example.

Big chance there will be more Sonic in minutes. Also got soo many requests doing a more straight "serious' Sonic story that I was considering that too, but it's probably way too ambigious considering my low output these days. Not to mention I want a Sonic break for a while after I finish off one more Sonic Dissected.
Drawn the blue hedgehog too much in 2014. It's not like Lost world or Boom did much to ignite new passion for the franchise.

And there might be a Freedom Planet cartoon/Dissected coming up.
As for Dissected, still gotta do a follow up on the Kingdom hearts one and I'm looking into doing a bunch about Internet reviewers, either as April fools thing or proper, I don't know.
So yeah, got plenty of ideas and plans. As usual.
Time and a good state of mind is getting more sparse tough, so if I manage to finish one animation a month it'd be a miracle. Tough at least 20 Dissecteds again I suppose... If anything, the eternal boredom gives me plenty of time to think about things, provided the people I'm locked up with would shut up, which they don't.