TVPaint

I recently finally bought the animation software TVPaint.

I’m so used to Photoshop that learning it will probably be a struggle, but I’ll try to use it every day. (I bought it thinking “the yen is strong” (?), but it was still expensive.)

I also bought all sorts of things I wanted on impulse, and while excited, I got scared about the future,
so I kept my household accounts for the first time in about two months. I’d been using a Google spreadsheet, but it was a pain and I didn’t think I’d keep it up, so I decided to write it in my planner.

I buy whatever I want, and the school has a wonderful production environment, yet I somehow lack drive and spend the days lazing around. I have a vague feeling that lack of exercise is the cause.

When I’m goofing off, a line from a character named Itabashi in Ushijima the Loan Shark comes to mind: “I used up the time I needed to find what truly matters on the joy of meaningless consumption.”

In a book I read recently, I learned the terms “lycée style” and “nutra style.” “Nutra style” is fashion focused on marriage and being popular, while “lycée style” is fashion for self-expression. My current hobby is looking at passersby and thinking, “Ah, that person carries on the lycée tradition,” or “Ah, that’s the 2016 version of nutra.”