back with my weekly project :') sorry this one isnt as complex or entertaining but i'd really appreciate it if you read all this anyway! a really long time ago, i made a promise to myself that i would never leave scratch because i was "too old". i kept seeing amazing animators leave because they were getting older, and i couldn't understand why anyone would leave. sure, maybe go a little inactive, but i promised to myself to never ever leave forever. well, here i am, and im understanding why now. scratch is a great website, don't get me wrong. but it's a kids website. there are too many limitations for me to really thrive and grow as an artist. for example, wanting to know what people's usernames are on other sites so we can talk there. in fact, that's exactly what got me banned. (if you dont know, i was banned for about 4 days because i asked people about other sites they were on.) i'm not blaming the scratch team or scratch in general. i broke the rules. i made a mistake and i shouldn't have done that. but its annoying, as well, im trapped here and i can only talk about flowers and sunshine and rainbows and i can't branch out to other places to talk about other things. oh, and scratch 3.0. im dreading it. im not a suuper long time scratch user, but i know what i want and it's not scratch 3.0. its insanely unfriendly to animators and there's no way to cut sound. no thank you. so, what is this all leading up to? i said i would never leave scratch. and i'm not. im just going to be pretty inactive. 1 project a week, for as long as possible, but i wont be able to keep that up much longer now that school has started. and by the time that 3.0 comes in january, i'll have way too much schoolwork to make projects anyway, so 3.0 will beat all my motivation to the dust. i'll never leave, ill check messages and make projects every now and then, but it wont be the same, ever. i love you guys so much and i can never thank you enough for all the support youve given me on this wonderful journey. thank you <3
