Chasing Animation- Postponed

As I'm typing this latest blog post, I am feeling quite annoyed and a bit disappointed with myself. The reason for this is because, over the past couple of weeks my RSI has finally caught up with me. Even with the Wacom, that has no doubt eased my pain when I was animating quite relentlessly from a few months ago, it's just become a slight of a headache to try and mentally focus on animating my projects with the pain. If you don't know what RSI here is a link to a previous blog post that I did, current and future animators should take heed : What is RSI?

I believe however, the main cause for such pain was due to my job at the restaurant that I'm currently working part time. I would lift these tray of glasses with my right hand and would take them out to the front of the bar, where normally others would use both hands due to the weight. With the increase pressure I put on my right hand, I woke up the next morning with agonising pain.

Hoping that this would subside over the couple of days with rest, my hand just never seemed to be the same again. It has made me think about my career more deeply than ever as I have yet to enter the industry. With the horror of such a consequence that I may end up losing out on my dream job as an animator because of this, I've decided to postpone this project.

However, this doesn't mean that I will give up on building up my showreel as i intend to break into the industry this year. So, I will start on another project that I have already lined up but only work on the references, early thumbnails sketches and research, not the animation itself (animating). This will then hopefully give my hand to recover as the workload will be less intensive as well as giving the chance to share my work on this blog.

After I am fully sure that my RSI has subsided, then will I go back to this chasing animation project. Again, I feel a bit frustrated with how another medical condition has cropped up from just a couple of months ago when I had those chest pains.

 I really do wonder how other people of my generation are coping with the level of competitiveness of achieving their dream job based on their university degree. But, I guess that is what life is about, sometimes you aren't dealt the favourable cards. Anyway that's enough of my rambling, I'll see you guys soon. I'm sorry also for the lack of content as it's just paragraph after paragraph of jargon.