The tack I've decided to take is that I'm going to make animations of something every few weeks, more or less like doing calisthenics. I don't expect to give myself enough time do anything with a story to speak of. Mostly, I imagine these will be exercises of a minute or less in duration. What I want to accomplish is to get to the point where after a small (but hopefully sufficient) amount of preparation, I begin animating. Then I finish what I start (always a bugaboo with me) and move on to the next one.

To begin with, I'm mostly just going to make things move. As much as anything, I'll be commiting the features of my animation tools to "muscle memory" (if I may invent a metaphor) and as a result, I'll be better able to make stories at the end of the tunnel.

I've already been at work on my January animation, it's rendering now. I got a little crazy with the quality settings, but it should render in about a day.

I have made myself log my steps and workflow, too. I think that building a list of what I did as I go will be helpful in reducing the amount of time I spend planning to animate while increasing the usefulness of that very important step.

Once I get several things animated, I think I'll be able to go back to all my scripts (there's a bunch) and turn them into something I can show off. Don't know if there'll be any gems in the pile, but I'm having fun so far. And that is, when all is said and done, the point.

Oh, and I do indeed appreciate all the encouragement.