This is a small screenshot from a motion test I just did for a pitch for a freelance job. I had to try to emulate the style of some existing animation, which I can’t really do. Man, I suck at pitching. How do people do it?

Remember when you were a kid and you liked to draw and make up stories? So you’d spend hours inventing characters and learning to draw them? Maybe they weren’t brilliant or anything, but they were unique and they were yours and they were somehow genuine. So you’d show the pictures to your friends and they would say, “Wow, that’s a pretty good drawing.” And you’d say, “Thanks. I worked really hard to–” And they would say, “Draw me a picture of Spiderman.”

That never ends.