I’m curious cuz I’m guessing a bunch of people considered doing something during covid, like art, video editing, composing/music, coding games and such.
From my time spent in creative work it really is a lot harder then seems, especially the mental toll it can take on you and I have started and given up many different things for various reasons.
I’ve gotten used to being hyperfixated on something before dropping it for months or years at this point
i’ve abandoned a few games before and stopped drawing… i might even halt magic power simulator just to make a quick obby cashgrab or a silly story game.
I decide to kinda give up on writing a novel with how much people complain about my writing being hard to read and being told every time my grammar sucked every time even by a professional who rated me demotivates me despite their best intention. At that point I rather invest my time to get better at drawing and more 3D stuff to make a comic/animation instead.
I have given up on so many things that it’s hard to even keep count on to be honest.
If basketball counts, I get crazy muscle cramps in my legs now thoe and I’ll still try to play, but I’m basically a shell of what I used to be 
I wanted to try and learn how to animate using Moon Animator just because I was bored. I had no experience and knowledge on how to use Moon Animator and kinda just played around with it using my avatars for a few weeks.
I know animation takes a long while to do but I don’t think I can see myself sitting down for a few hours animating, especially since I don’t have any knowledge (like keyframes and such) outside of a few small tutorials I watched on Youtube. It just kinda feels long and tedious to animate and sometimes the result won’t be what you expected.
I had this problem too, kept changing stuff from modelling, art and such. the way I got rid of it was to just set a goal on what I actually wanna do instead of a vague “I wanna do something related to these kinda stuff”
Wanting to change games is normal imo, it gets stressful doing the same thing when you might get a new one
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I would determine if the hobby in question is what I wanna do for a job and if I really like it, If true then don’t give up despite how hard to seems. Most of the problems you get from creative work is usually just mental health management simulator
However, if it’s a hobby for a side hustle / fun then take it easy, stressing about it shouldn’t be logical when it’s just for fun
Probably sounds kinda wierd but From my experience I feel like you focusing on quality and not giving up works well for your main thing while if any sub activities you like, avoiding stress from them helps. Most people just get overwhelmed by their extra hobbies which imo is unnecessary and a source they can cut off, however identification is important before hand.
So if writing is just a sub hobby then honestly avoid stressing about it, just give it time and it will slowly improve. If it’s the main then you basically just do the same thing with more determination, mistakes are just learning experiences.
(btw my source cut off, im talking about stress build-up, Im saying try to delulu and ignore the stress from things you like doing. Don’t give it up unless you dislike it)
ehh kinda similar, it’s just a activity you like doing. Don’t worry about being the best unless your going into the NBA or whatever it’s called lol. just have fun with the people you play with.
just don’t give up on something you actually liked, Most of the time people just let stress take over and they lose determination.
Idk if im correct about this, but IMO
Talented people will usually start of making cool stuff which will get them alot of interaction and attention which kinda puts them on a “positivity train” letting them maintain a better mental health working with stuff.
For people who aren’t talented we simply just need to work it up until we can catch one of these trains, Sometimes we don’t reach them for months and that’s okay. Just remember that most people you see online are talented people that will hit a long wall later or are people who might have been working for years which we don’t see.
try to identify if you actually like it. Judging from your message I can’t say for sure but if you like animation even for fun then give it a try sometimes.
Keyframes imo are extremely easy to learn especially if you start with stuff like walk cycle first.
Keyframes can be imagined like position points, the body part simply moves from one position point to another based on how to set them, the animation smoothness thing is basically how it gets to that part, for example linear would constantly move in a stable speed but a things like elastic might bounce towards the next position point
Also animators CHEAT ALOT, every time you see a frame where parts of the character aren’t visible camera you can bet they didn’t animate those lol so don’t worry too much about being perfect at it
forgot to mention it’s about DEVELOPING the games i now abandoned, not playing
Mom said I’m quite an interesting person (basically autism) as most would usually easily give up while I’m more prone to Sunk cost fallacy and keep doing it on and on until it’s decent. I see people here find it hard to keep stick to one thing, while I’m the opposite.
I always have a tendency to keep doing what I establish or pretty much making a ripoff of something I like but with my own ideas and expanding some ideas from stuff I watch or see, as for now I have 7 “franchise” (quotation mark because they are just what I noted and in my head) and sometimes as simple someone pointing out “A black man from 1969 driving like a NASCAR driver Initial D style means he instantly get shot by a police” is enough to make me down and keep going on and on “fixing” or hyperfixate on what I can change or do better despite not really adding to the narrative.
I find this chronic imperfection to be what limits me, yet I always feel insecure with what all the technical things and it becomes this awful self loathing cycle of creating but never showing or sharing what I do.
Creative work unfortunately don’t really pay, and it’s sucks I’m stuck doing Roblox GFX that I dislike just for money and it really start to grind me off as I’m kind of confused to find a source of income that don’t just revolve Roblox for more pay. (Hard surface modeling is quite nice, though I still need to learn more if I want to make hyperrealistic firearm or cars)
And it sucks too that I want to work at animation or do video games, as those aren’t really jobs that pay while I’m getting haunted by the possibility of dad out of nowhere divorcing mom just to do his dipshit father request.
I do like it when I just randomly feel like animating for no reason. Outside of that though, it’s kind of a slog? Idk, maybe it’s a mixed bag for me right now and I’ll probably just pick it back up sometime in the future.
I have some ideas I wanna do using animation but I’m really limited due to this, and it’s not like I can just magically animate my ideas with a press of a button.
That’s the thing, I haven’t found a style that I’m comfortable with using yet.
Maybe it’s just that I haven’t been experimenting and playing around with different styles that much yet, but I dunno.
Yeah, I do mean developing. It’s a little difficult to constantly stay devoted to the same game but don’t feel too pressured about perfecting your first few games, usually you wanna make prototype or mini/basic versions of your dream game so you practice and carry skills towards it
i’m contemplating making smaller projects for now because i doubt i’ll get attention on the big simulator i’m working on (it’s prolly not even cashgrab at this point)
Hmm I don’t know much about your person life so I can’t really comment much, But I will suggest starting a log discord/youtube which could help you feel more open to share your work.
You can also just start it easy by posting here on the forums on your own forum discussion which is what I started with (I was too shy to post on Youtube, I kept getting embarrassed to do it 
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