Bleh

I'm in kind of a rut. I signed up for Digital Tutors, a website with a bunch of tutorial videos. It wasn't exactly the best time to do that, but I thought it would help my cloth simulation... It didn't. Then I found another tutorial about the trax editor, which I thought would help my animation. It didn't. So I basically just spent $45 for a month of tutorials that I shouldn't be wasting my time on, because I have 3 other projects I'm working on. Here's some status updates:

Aiko's Bopeep - Kind of on hold because it's the least crucial of the 3 projects. I need to do a lot of work on the animation to make it look more natural. It's 960 frames, and I'm having a hard time breaking it down into manageable chunks.

Cerebus Cloth Simulation - I was enlisted by a guy in California to do cloth simulation for a team animation. I was really excited at the opportunity to work on a team, but I'm not sure I'll be able to get the job done. It's simulating the cloth on a jacket, which is really hard to do cleanly. The animation is obviously not set up to properly work with the jacket, and even with some tweeks I still run into problems.

Dominance War V - I just deleted my own thread, which is embarrassing. I'm pretty sure the moderator will be able to bring it back, but I feel like an idiot. Plus new animation threads are popping up all the time, making my chances of winning slimmer and slimmer. As I mentioned before, the Trax Editor tutorial I went through didn't help at all, so that will slow down my progress, once I even get to that step.

The stock market is completely confusing me, my parent's puppy is turning into a spoiled brat, and I'm back up to the same weight I was at Christmas. And it's snowing. Not a good week for me.