12/4

1p0- Woke up.
3p2- Ate a huge meal. Watched the People vs George Lucas documentary. Greedo shot first, not Han. If that makes Han into kind of a pussy, because he turns from a dangerous smuggler who kills without remorse into an Ewok loving smuggler that shot Greedo only in self defense, so be it. It's Lucas's right as an American to change his work as he sees fit. Just an opinion.
4p3- Cleaned up. Did some waking up stuff.

5p4- Worked on the restaurant scene. It's taking me a lot longer than expected to make a fast food joint... In the scene,  I drew a poster that says "5 Tacos for 5 Starbucks". Who cares? What a dumb poster. I think of it as a good reality check. This restaurant is just devoid of artistic expression. Now I'm not saying I'm approaching a sort of artist's block here, as I haven't stopped drawing... but it's certainly a "paint by the numbers" space food joint.

Should I work on every part of the game in equal detail, or do I selectively skip over some of the boring parts and work more on others? 

Maybe I should get creative. Maybe I should make some sort of mascot for this restaurant. Just throwing it out for shits and giggles, maybe Ronald McDonald's actually an alien, and there are a bunch of Ronald Aliens that are renown chefs throughout the galaxy.

But would it help immerse the player into the setting? I mean look at that chair on the right. Lifeless. Unspacey.

On the other hand, I really want to finish this game. I don't have unlimited time to make the game. Some parts of the game are parts I won't compromise on, like the guns. I did a good amount of research into them, so they look cool and feel cool to shoot.

I definitely have to choose what to focus on. A writer can write as little or as much as he pleases to fill a world its important details. He could simply write "You walk into the run down fast food joint and see cardboard Ronald Alien cutouts on display". Visual art tends to be more thorough, as there are expectations that the viewers have.

Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 7/10

6p5- Worked on backgroundRestaurant.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 9/10

7p6- Worked on backgroundRestaurant.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 9/10

8p7- Trying to speed things up with this background.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 10/10

9p8- Worked on carmenGunPose. Stopped working on restaurantBackground, I'm alert today so i'll switch to a more difficult task.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 10/10

10p9- Working on carmenGunPose. All that's left is coloring, so I will save it for another time.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 10/10

11p10- Worked on backgroundLockerRooms.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 10/10

12p11- Worked more on that. Boy, it sure looks boring.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 10/10

1a12-
Worked some, ate some.

This is the most atrocious background. At least it's not done yet.

This was also atrocious from AD1

So I remade it for AD2. Of course, only the Neoflatists appreciated it.

Sure, there's lots of stuff I can add to that locker room. Open a locker, knock one over, put some duffel bags in, add a back wall, few soda cans lying about, and a bunch of alien wax... But for now, I'd rather not look at the damn thing. I'll switch to something else.

Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 5/10

2a13- Worked on CarmenGunPose. Checked over animator's work, it looks pretty good. I'm pleased to have an animator like him.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10

3a14- Helped out animator for a bit. Computer went bonkers for 30 minutes. Time to backup files.

4a15-
Did some file maintenance. I'll need to look into get this computer fan looked at, it's making a very loud buzzing sound and I suspect the fan is either not functioning or out of alignment. Oddly, placing my foot on the computer stops the noise.

http://www.hentaicook.com/blog/zoe1.swf

Look! Hentai. It's not from me though, it's from the animator. It's a work in progress, and I am still in charge of most of the animations.

Report: It is good that I managed to recover from yesterday's failure. Today was difficult. I felt very refreshed so I took on the more harder tasks today. Grade S.