Imagination Rabbit plans for 2025
Things change but this is the plan maaaaaaaan
Last day in Japan on this trip- sitting in this little lounge in the hotel thinking about 2025.
I make a lot of plans- I don’t always follow through on them exactly as planned but I’m always working on something/getting some creative project done.
Here’s the Imagination Rabbit plans for 2025
(I’ll be working in Iceland over Christmas and New Years + family stuff so probably won’t have time to write a 2025 thing then- I’m doing nothing right now so now I write…)
2025 PLANS
Release our original feature animated film musical “I’m living my life” in early 2025.
%74 of the film is complete now. Production will be completed in February 2025 most likely.
I will probably just release it for free on Youtube etc like I always do and move on to the next thing
Unsure if I’ll do an interactive release like I did with M doll as I haven’t had any ideas on new features outside of what I did with the M doll interactive- no one has really seen that one yet so I’ll wait and see if the world is interested in that before I make another release like that
I want to produce a version with voices singing in Russian at least for fun- a version in Arabic would be cool too, as would Japanese but outside of the Russian version I don’t know anyone/have any contacts with musicians/engineers to get those done- not saying its impossible just unlikely I’ll do the leg work to get those made as I’ll be working on the next thing
Development and release of a new original video game titled “C**** H***** “ (*redacted name)
Third person action game with some mechanics taken from my joke game Derp Souls and some other mechanics taken from my third person megaman-ish game I never shipped because it was massively over-scoped AHHHHHHH
3 month dev time goal- the core mechanics I’ve built out and tested/iterated on already as that’s the hard part- I know the core is fun already which is everything if you know what you’re doing to build out a shipping game already
3 months feels like a good time to spend on a game I’m going to release for free + games are less my art and more like toys so I can’t dedicate too much of my time/life to toys when I could instead be expressing myself through art
Work on the musical I’m doing now is %95 creative so my brain wants to work on something technical next- programming is fun to me now and then-
Will release the game on Steam and it will most likely be free or very cheap
Going to produce original songs + musical number cutscenes for the game so I can use my new mocap workflow for this project
%100 will release new original songs as now that I’m back using Reason + modding/replacing my voice/s with Audimee its really fun
Outside of-
New musical
New game
New music
I can’t commit to anything else for 2025 as I’ll also probably be doing a fair bit of traveling and doing friends/family stuff too.
Travel work update tho 🤣
So every time I plan a trip I’m like “I’ll be fine not working on a serious project for 2-4 weeks… its fine” but after about 2 weeks I’m like AHHHHHHH and dying to work so I just bought a setup that will allow me to do serious work anywhere.
Up until now I travel with my Macbook Air I use for communication and business- I use a CHAD PC with three monitors + a 4090 at home for my work- I can’t really do my real work on a laptop.
I do have my PC setup with wake on lan and Parsec so I can remote into and control my work PC from this laptop or any computer- it allows me to use the PC virtually which is cool as fuck BUT this laptop just has one screen 🤔
So my new setup to use my PC remotely is-
1 x Macmini M4- tiny little thing that only weights 1.5 pounds
+ mouse and keyboard
I’m going to get a travel case/piece of luggage for this setup so when I fly/travel anywhere I can just check it in and set it up/use it in any hotel/airBnB/Vrbo etc
I’m hyped about being able to do this with the new setup and it will allow me to continue to chip away at my creative projects even while away/traveling etc.
My mocap suit came with a travel case so I could take it with me as well and do mocap “on the road”- pretty exciting.
Anyhow back to the post….
I still am really interested in producing tutorial/training material for my new filmmaking style but I would probably have to get someone else involved to help push that along at this point-
If the year goes great I’ll release the musical around March then move on to working on the game and release the game late in the summer July/August. Then move on to the next thing which as of right now I’d like to do another musical.
On a side note I started working on(writing music) for “living my life” in July 2024 and got to %74 of the whole thing complete by November 4 2024. I tend to get faster with things I’ve done before- this new musical + mocap workflow is new for me. So next time I try it I will be able to do it faster. It would be sick to start on another musical and get a bunch of it done by the end of 2025.
For the next musical I’ll either buy more mocap suits so I can do multiple actors at the same time OR hire professional dancers/stage actors and rent out a mocap studio that has a Vicon setup and do it all there.
Before this trip I was thinking of moving Imagination Rabbit over to Japan at the end of 2025 but after this trip I’ve decided to stay put in Portugal for a few years. I like Portugal and there are some incentives for me to stay put there for a few years that don’t exist in Japan.
I’ll revisit the idea in the coming years though BUT for a creative studio the most important thing is to create and so far I’ve been really productive in Portugal- it doesn’t matter where you are its what you’re doing.
