Don't you love it when you discover something about your own self? I haven't been working on the film for many months now, actually since last December. I have been planning the development of Time Flies based on wrong assumptions, that i could complete the final stages of animation working the same way i have been working all my life.

The way my brain works is by pushing a lot of things in the background. I can work on multiple problems in the back of my head, and i often dream about those problems and almost solve them in my dreams. It's a funny thing. Then, when i am happy with a solution, i can sit down and push it out to "paper". I am very productive because i can think of something, and then write it down very very fast. Whether it's a presentation for work, or how i worked on the Time Flies script, how i program and how i even compose music. It all happens in my head, and then sitting down is just a dumping process really. Very fast, not so time consuming.

Then came Animation. I thought i could really use the same process. I have thought about the movie non stop for many years now. I have every single camera movement, angle, and shot all in my head for each second of the story. So i figured i could just sit down a few hours here and there, work on the animation, and make slow and steady progress on it. I have always been fine with taking my time and if i needed a year, then so be it.

It didn't happen this way. Maybe it's just because i never did animation before and i am still unfamiliar with the tools, or maybe it's because Animation is just hard to actually do, every time i have sat down, i was never able to make steady progress. A couple of hours of work really never got me started on anything. And so, Time Flies has languished, and i kept getting more and more frustrated about it.

Now that i have realized that, i need a new strategy. Either i need to structure my time differently and spend blocks of 5-10hours at a time (i can't seem to be able to do it piecemeal like everything else i do), or i need to actively look for help again.

I have learnt something about myself and how my brain works, and hopefully, i can change my schedule/behavior so i can complete Time Flies.