I guess I didn't really get past that fear of oversharing last year, eh?

2022 was a lot of things for me, a focus on pushing ahead in other areas of life but also trying to steer the creative ship in a more hopefully fruitful direction. It's something I still haven't completely set in motion, just a plan I keep building on. After years and years of organizing my characters and universe, putting together a game plan and formulating exactly what I wanted to make, I came to a realization I needed to start even simpler and there may be a decent compromise in there.

So, I've had to re-think where I'm putting my creative energies when it comes to my projects. The big stuff is pushed even further back, a goal I'd like to strive for later on down the line, but what I have in mind now will hopefully be more achievable in a shorter time. I just want to start putting things out there, and while I know I'll always keep being 'me' and trying to overdo it, I think I'm finally down to a point where I might actually be able to make good on the promise of making something playable, tangible, maybe even good~

I feel like a lot of my indecisiveness has led to better and better outcomes, being able to recontextualize ideas and come at them from a fresh perspective later, but I'm also pretty scattershot, unable to really hone one particular area down to a fine point. It's probably part of why I have nothing to show - it's all sketchy, concepts and ideas not fully fleshed out, and all over the place. This year I hope to work on that, and get focused again.

It often feels like I've wasted my time and energy, making all sorts of designs that I change up massively, even had an entire finished 'species guide' for my crow-like race that I scrapped before it saw the light of day because I wasn't super happy with it and their whole design has changed enough to invalidate that work. I've put weeks into models and animation I probably won't even be able to salvage because my needs have shifted. I have two characters in particular who I've never shown off once, but I've radically redesigned top to bottom like 3 times each. But it all serves the purpose of learning, improving, honing and fleshing out designs.

I really should find more to share, though! xwx It's all a process, and everything's expected to change, but there's still something worth sharing even if it isn't stuff that's made for posting.