My hard-drive is a graveyard for unfinished projects.  I like to think of them as in hibernation; to be awoken from their dormant state, finished off, and published sometime in the future, but in reality this is a bit of a myth… the only thing I ever actually complete is work.  I get inspired, throw myself into an animation or design, and then lose interest and abandon it; hidden within the depths of a folder with a vague sounding name.

And repeat. 

For this reason I’ve decided to publish an incomplete animation, in the hope that as I’m only comfortable showing people completed projects, this will force me to do something about it.  My online equilivalent of running out into the street naked in the belief that it will force me into getting dressed, for the want of a better analogy.

Ok, the concept behind this was that I wanted to tell a story in Flash, using largely raster images, and tiny amount of vector work.  I was too lazy to take didn’t want to take the photos myself, and so instead decided that every photo would be taken from Google Image search, tarted up in Photoshop, and animated together.  The animation is shot from the main character’s point of view. Essentially the story is about a man, who gets depressed with his mundane life, and tries to kill himself, but somehow fails.  He tries again, and fails yet again. Several attempts later, he decides that maybe after all life isn’t so bad, and so he’ll try and live out his years.  At which point he gets killed in the most unlikely way possible.  Nice cheery little black comedy.

Anyway, I got up to the point where you see his daily regime, getting up, going to work etc.  Once I’d completed a days worth I was going to am going to repeat the same sequence, but at a faster rate, with the music sped up, and keep on doing this to illustrate just how dull and depressing his life is.

Anyway without further ado, to the sound of a slightly undramatic and vaguely dissappointed drumroll, here is Immortal (crap working title).