The end

Today marks the end (sort of) of about a year's worth of work. It wouldn't be completely accurate to say that I completed the cartoon I've been working on, though I don't want to go so far as to say I've given up on it either. I've completed the cartoon itself, minus a few tweaks here or there I know I need to make. It's about three minutes long, and almost everything I'd hoped it to be. I wanted to have a thing during the credits of the main robot character, the Helping Robot, dancing (yes, doing the robot dance, of course). I wanted strobe lights, one of those light balls that has different colors, General Grievous twirling glow sticks, and a few other jokes as well. But in the end I decided that my skills weren't up to par, it would take me forever to do it anywhere near well, and truthfully, I was getting tired with the cartoon. I want to move on to other projects that have been bouncing around in this head of mine (because there's lots of room in there, har de har har). I don't know what to feel at this point. I was expecting to have to do a minute's more animation, and now all of a sudden I'm done, because I'm...what? lazy? dejectedly aware of my low ability with Flash? tired of waiting the 1 and 1/2 hours for the file to save? Yeah, probably.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to showing it to my little brother. I think he'll enjoy it. And hopefully, one day, when I have a cartoon website and am good at Flash, I'll go back and add in all the stuff I wanted to and make it look nice and shiny and oh so much better. Until then, it's done, and I'm satisfied with the work I did. Be sure to click on the above picture for a better look. I'm proud to say that I personally came up with half of the characters shown. Hopefully I'll be posting within the next week a link to the cartoon itself. I'm going to try to get it hosted at Albino Blacksheep.