#I did more world building and it wasn't for Starlight guilt aiuerhgauif

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Have we talked about Hello Spider before? I'm going to talk about Hello Spider

Starlight Guilt has once again been kicked out of the hot seat in favor of other projects, like Hello Spider

Hello spider is an animation project I have been chipping away at for... about eight or nine years (somewhere around 2015 which, holy shit, that was so long ago) based around a song of the same name due to the fact that the animation was created around the song which I composed while watering my plants in my garden and feeling sad

what initially stalled me on it was the fact that I didn't have access to any animation software. I could have done a hand drawn animation on line paper and just flipped between a bunch of notebook pages, but in my attempts of animating in the corners of my notebooks I realized that I struggled to make the pages flip at a consistent rate without any of them sticking together, so that wouldn't work for me. Another option I entertained was using the stop motion feature on my 3DS since I'd made a handful of stop motion animations using that, but I also realized that in order to make that work I would need to line up the DS in the exact same spot every time I took a picture and I just didn't want to do that

So I sort of just daydreamed a bunch of some character designs. By the time I had gotten access to an animation software, it had sort of slipped to the back of my mind. less in a "I forgot about it" way and more in a "I have decided this is impossible for me to achieve so I won't even entertain it" way

Somewhere along the line, I started actually animating and realized "Hey, I have the skills to do Hello Spider now!" And then I ran into my current problem: the music

you'd think that would be because I don't remember the song anymore or perhaps that my memory has warped the melody over time so much that it no longer fits the animation, but no! My issue is taking the original idea from composition to actual music! snvgtoaimjeriognjarg

when I originally came up with a song, I recorded it after I finished doing my gardening, so I still have the original recording because I have transported it to all of my new devices (yaaaay!🎉). During the daydreaming era, I came up with more ideas for the song, extra parts, more instruments, but I decided to ax those because they made the story more complicated than it needed to be and also needlessly dramatic (I added back the drama in a connected animation I'm planning for a preexisting song, which means I don't have to compose music for it (yaaaay!🎉), but I'm holding off on that until I actually finish Hello Spider)

My struggle with the music though, is that I do not know how to play the instrument that I composed it for. theoretically, I could learn to play it (and honestly, I'm just thinking it might be easier at this point), but it's the piano and I know for a fact that my hands are too small to play the freaking piano, so I decided I would use a music software and compose it there. BUT!!!! I. Keep. Messing. Up. The timing!!!!!!!!

IHfuaiehgiamerijngaeri!!!!!!!!!

I have all the notes! But! The timing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I can't do the animation without the music, because the tempo of the song sets the pace of the animation and there are particular points in the song where specific things in the animation happen!!!!!!!

It's not even like the song is complicated, I just hate having to move around all the frames in an animation because the timing is just slightly off because then you have to move around everything, So I can't start the animation without the music, but. I. Keep. Getting. The. Timing. Wrong.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, thank you for coming to my Ted talk