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[pipecleaneradventures]

Spyro discovers that the same colored gems have different values in Hyrule than they do in the Dragon Worlds.

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[pipecleaneradventures]

Today I've been sorting my figures to be ready to be made into scenes. The objects in this video are some extra bits I needed to make to finish the sets and give props to the charactrs in the sscenes. But hey, I finally started sorting my critters to prepaare for scenes like I used to do. At first I thought it was a slow waste of time because I just have way too many scene ideas. But once I had a few scenes ready, and finished the props for some others, I felt much better. I think this kind of preparation was why I was less stressed while making my early videos. I had a plan and I had all the pieces ready and all I needed to do was animate them rather than digging around to find them and realizing I was missing something so I would have to stop animating to make it or look around way too long to find it.

I'd been afraid to be organized again because I'd toggen really stressed out when I organized all my ideas and realized tht I had over a thousand of them. But now I've figured out that there are different kinds of organizing. There are some kinds of organizing that just get you overwhelmed like the list kind. And there's the other kind of organizing that I also don't enjoy which is like sorting all your pipe cleaners into their colors, because that kind of organizing that doens't require much thought gives your brain a place to wander and get lost thinking of depressing thoughts. But this third kind of organizing I did today was really fun once I got started. I even thought of things as I played out the scenes in my head, I thought of things that needed to be in them or how the scenes would hapen and even realized there were characters who should be there.

Anyway, I feel pretty good now, and I hope to have some fun pipe cleaner adventures animated for you soon. Silly me to think that the animation itslef was what was stressing me out and so I kept trying to find out ways to animate faster. But the whole time, the real thing I was stressed out about was not being able to decide what scene to do first and being worried about having everything I need for a scene. The animation part is super fun and always was fun. The preparation stuff is what isn't fun, or I make it not fun becausse I think too much and get overwhelmed. But I have all the things I need ready, then I don't need to worry.

I'd been really deprressed because I'd lost my confidence in everything and I didn't know how to get it back. I couldn't even make critters anymore because everything I made I thought weas ugly. Nothing I made was good enought to show and I just felt really guilty and didn't know wht to do to fix it. But now that I'm a little more correctly organized I feel better and I hope I stay feeling better and am able to keep myself motivated again.