oh, drat

[egypturnash]

AG didn't like the final "Hot, Stuffed Turkey" piece. It won't be going up: she's not pretty enough, they think she looks rough, and various other things. I'll be getting some money for it but not the original amount. And I will keep getting work from AG, too - I was worried that this going catastrophically wrong might affect tha!

I'm probably going to hold off making it publicly available until after Thanksgiving, unless they give me the okay to put it in my portfolio now.

I don't think I want to do any more e-card projects. Even without the problems I had initially with this one, doing a full minute of animation eats up my brain for several weeks. This is one of the things that made me reluctant to go back into the animation industry - I kind of obsess on the project until it's done, with my brain working on aspects of it every waking moment. I woke up with this song in my head every morning for two weeks straight. This is part of why I drifted out of the LA animation world: I'm not as willing to give that much of myself for money any more.

Comments

[merrycalliope.livejournal.com]

That's really too bad. Seems like they should have given you some design direction and/or feedback on the drafts you were submitting in order to avoid something like this.

Btw, my mom liked it and she falls smack dab in the middle of AG's target market. But as I'm learning the likes of the target market and what a company THINKS the likes of the target market are are very often two very very different things. -_-

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Wait, am I missing something, or are all of the people who have seen it just friends she knows in person? Huh.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I posted a friends-locked link to it. *grin*

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Curses, foiled!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Eh, I kinda curled up in a ball and did it without much chance for feedback. And didn't parse what I was getting properly.

Marketing is weird, yeah. So remote from actuality... I think it would've done well, too, but who knows? I dunno what sells and what doesn't. Neither do they - one of their biggest-selling winks, I was told when I went to interview there, was something knocked out in a half hour of cutout-animated monkeys dancing the can-can.