Midlife Crisis!
Fri 10/4/2019
Today I'm 40! I created this short animation to show kinda how it feels š THREAD 1/ pic.twitter.com/FoyuG53o1U
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
Iāve decided that for my midlife crisis Iām going to try and give myself permission to do some animation just for fun.
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
I have a few small ideas planned out with a goal of trying to get an animated short done before I turn 50. Iāve already started storyboarding it! 2/
I feel like I used to hear a lot about people having a āmidlife crisisā but not so much these days. Now at 40, (married, two kids, a mortgage to pay off, lots of responsibility) I think I get the idea. Sort of wishing for simpler times, thinking about paths not chosen, etc. 3/
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
But like I donāt even want to own A car, let alone a sports car (I also couldnāt afford one if I did!). Iām happily married to my wonderful wife Claire ( @Fluffengine ). I enjoy my work. It seems like the only think I can be really irresponsible with right now is my time! 4/
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
I spend pretty much every moment working (providing childcare for my kids, my day job for @cartoonstudies , drawing Phase 7 and @isleofelsi plus freelance projects). Itās very rare that I let myself do something just for the pleasure of it. 5/
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
As a kid (like a lot of artistic kids who grew up in the ā80s) my goal was to be a Disney animator. I ended up a cartoonist - a career path that Iām very happy with - but over the last couple of years Iāve tried my hand at animation and every time I have so much fun! 6/
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
I also learn TONS! Even just in that little 30-second animation above I learned a bunch of new skills! I could keep tweaking it forever (adding more inbetweens, smoothing out some of the arcs, etc) but instead Iām going to take what I learned and apply it to my NEXT animation 7/
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
I donāt want to work as an animator, but itās been so invigorating playing with this for the past few weeks, even just for 15 minutes a day. Iām really excited about the other projects I have planned! And it feels like giving something back to my childhood self. 8/
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
Iām gonna post process stuff and future projects over in my illustration blog under the āanimationā tag, if you want to follow along with my adventures: https://t.co/3sBnySM4tm
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
(I havenāt written a post yet about this one - but I will soon! I did it all in @clipstudiopaint ) 9/
Hopefully my family will not end up destitute from me losing all my jobs because I started spending all my time on my new animation hobby! š 10/END
— Alec Longstreth (@AlecLongstreth) October 4, 2019
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