{"id":485,"date":"2007-08-11T12:57:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=485"},"modified":"2007-08-11T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T19:57:38","slug":"planning-if-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/08\/planning-if-only\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANNING: If only&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s been nearly impossible for me to force myself back into the creative groove, and this, based on what I&#8217;m trying to learn, adds about a hundred cargo cars to the engine car of a train heading uphill.&nbsp; Uphill without directions.&nbsp; And like with an aerial map instead of street turns and a big red star.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I knew what I wanted to do and what I needed to learn in software.&nbsp; After watching many, many short film clips, there&#8217;s now a kettleful of ideas that go nowhere.&nbsp; The different forms of animation, the different methods of presentation, the simplicity and the intricacy all appeal in some way until I view something entirely different and want to go that way for a while.&nbsp; Excitement builds even as doubts about ability grow.&nbsp; Even the end goal is just a case of self-satisfaction rather than a career since age is most definitely not on my side.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Mass confusion is what I am.&nbsp; Wonder how that would look in video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s been nearly impossible for me to force myself back into the creative groove, and this, based on what I&#8217;m trying to learn, adds about a hundred cargo cars to the engine car of a train heading uphill.&nbsp; Uphill without directions.&nbsp; And like with an aerial map instead of street turns and a big red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}