Well, I made a schedule. I doubt it’s realistic but it keeps me
moving. In fact, I took an example from the day job and signed up for
a free account with Basecamp.
It’s an online project management system that lets me track to do
lists and milestones for my project, and it emails me 48 hours before
a milestone is due. Pretty cool huh. I set up all my to do lists and
milestones today and now that it’s all written down somewhere and
saved, I feel like I have a better handle on it. Even if it’s crazy.
For example, I’m trying to get this all done by the end of May,
despite the fact that I’m lucky if I have 3 hours in an evening to
work. I’m putting a lot of pressure on my weekends and I’m even
trying to take Friday nights off, but I have a feeling I’ll be
playing catch up on those nights. At least I probably will in the
beginning when I’m trying to get the hang of Maya again. But I had to
schedule a night where I could pay bills and do dishes and clean the
litter box. Otherwise none of this matters. The cat and the creditors
will come after me.
So now that I have an idea of how ridiculously hard I have to work to make my end of May deadline, I made some actual progress tonight. I sat in various painful positions on my bathroom floor drawing sketches I can use to start modeling in Maya. I didn’t do details like lights or faucets but I have three pages of the larger objects, which is enough to get me started. They’re posted in the slide show on the work in progress page.
Tomorrow I actually start using some software. Actually, that would be today. Yikes.
So now that I have an idea of how ridiculously hard I have to work to make my end of May deadline, I made some actual progress tonight. I sat in various painful positions on my bathroom floor drawing sketches I can use to start modeling in Maya. I didn’t do details like lights or faucets but I have three pages of the larger objects, which is enough to get me started. They’re posted in the slide show on the work in progress page.
Tomorrow I actually start using some software. Actually, that would be today. Yikes.

