DECEMBER 2019
Each year so many of us make a New Year's resolution - and then break it almost immediately! So perhaps our New Year's resolution this year should be not to break our New Year's resolution this year? Wikipedia tells us that a New Year's resolution is... "A tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behavior, to accomplish a personal goal or otherwise improve their life." So perhaps this time of year is a good time to explore further what we might do for ourselves next year . . .
YOUR CHALLENGE:
The challenge this month is to animate what your own personal "New Year's Resolution" will be? You could just animate it as it is, or else with an outcome - whether that outcome be positive or negative. The key thing is to pick something you'd like to change about yourself and come up with an animated version of it for us all to see. The most original, or funny, will be the winner!
NOTE: My own personal New Year's Resolution will be to finally decide what to do with the Sketchclub in 2020! We have a mass of members - with many new ones joining in each month - but we still seem to always have a small hardcore group of familiar contributors - even for the "drawing" challenges, which are much simpler than the "animation" ones!
So what do I do? Do I create an extra elite group within the group, where for a fee the more serious regulars contribute each month and get personal feedback and mentoring from me with regards what they submit? (Leaving everyone else to submit what they want to do, when they want to do it, as normal?) Do I open up the postings on Facebook to non-Challenge items, effectively losing the focus of the group and making it just yet another animation fan site? Do I close it entirely and save myself a lot of unrewarding work in the process? I think I need to let the membership tell me what they want.
So sometime over the next couple of weeks I will post a questionnaire that those who care about the group can respond to, and give me a clearer idea of what they want from it. I certainly need to see the Sketchclub more active in the future, if it is to exist at all. But to do that I need your feedback as I'm running out of ideas.
In the meantime though . . . "good luck" with you New Year's Resolution animation. I can't wait to see how imaginative you can be with what you want to be in 2020!
Tony White.
The challenge this month is to animate what your own personal "New Year's Resolution" will be? You could just animate it as it is, or else with an outcome - whether that outcome be positive or negative. The key thing is to pick something you'd like to change about yourself and come up with an animated version of it for us all to see. The most original, or funny, will be the winner!
NOTE: My own personal New Year's Resolution will be to finally decide what to do with the Sketchclub in 2020! We have a mass of members - with many new ones joining in each month - but we still seem to always have a small hardcore group of familiar contributors - even for the "drawing" challenges, which are much simpler than the "animation" ones!
So what do I do? Do I create an extra elite group within the group, where for a fee the more serious regulars contribute each month and get personal feedback and mentoring from me with regards what they submit? (Leaving everyone else to submit what they want to do, when they want to do it, as normal?) Do I open up the postings on Facebook to non-Challenge items, effectively losing the focus of the group and making it just yet another animation fan site? Do I close it entirely and save myself a lot of unrewarding work in the process? I think I need to let the membership tell me what they want.
So sometime over the next couple of weeks I will post a questionnaire that those who care about the group can respond to, and give me a clearer idea of what they want from it. I certainly need to see the Sketchclub more active in the future, if it is to exist at all. But to do that I need your feedback as I'm running out of ideas.
In the meantime though . . . "good luck" with you New Year's Resolution animation. I can't wait to see how imaginative you can be with what you want to be in 2020!
Tony White.
Deadline:
Submissions must be in by midnight on MONDAY DECEMBER 30th (Pacific Time).
Submissions must be in by midnight on MONDAY DECEMBER 30th (Pacific Time).