Animating habits

[SIFTER]

Do you have some animating demeanors you want to tell us about? Like things that you usually do when you animate. For example, I don't animate consistently. I animate for about 20 minutes, take a rest, then go back to animate, rest again and so on, or sketching scenes on paper of any animation I'm doing or willing to do... Stuff like that.

[Mat]

Back in 2010-2011 I used to always animate while high. Currently I have to be in a skype call to animate at a constant pace.

[Gary]

I cant animate without music.

[Yogurt]

9 onion skins

[Chris]

daaang Yogurt.
Autosize and non autosize depending on what animation 4 onion skins.

[Cressel]

A single onionskin and music playing. Other than that there's not much to it, guess that's why I don't animate often.

[Koolcid]

I have to finish an animation in one day or else I lose inspiration in it, unless the animation is amazing. That's why I don't have a long animation.

[Cheese]

Pretty much what koolcid said.
I can never continue animations, if i want to do a longer animation, it has to be in one sitting.

[ZucchiniJuice]

I always tend to have random side things off the camera in my animations and stks I have made for the animations have the most random names. Like "My dick hurts" or "ILovePineapplePie" or something. It keeps my attention span up and running.

[Cressel]

stks I have made for the animations have the most random names. Like "My dick hurts" or "ILovePineapplePie" or something. It keeps my attention span up and running.

I commonly name them asdas or whatever get's typed first. Funny enough I end up having the "You already have a figure named that" box appear quite often.
I also need to be talking on a Skype chat with someone while I animate, I need to have that person that will look at it.

[Ray]

Spoiler:

I need to have that person that will look at it.

I'll look at it all day Cress™. All day....<3

Sometimes I spend so much time getting the right song to play that I animate for half the time I planned.

[Jojishi]

I used to have a much better stamina a few years ago where I could animate in 2-3 hour sittings. Now at my best I can animate for an hour, but then I need a 5 minute break. I'll animate for another hour and then take another little break, and then I try to do a third hour if I can manage it. On my breaks I either lie down or get myself something to eat/drink. If I find what I do really interesting I can lose track of the time, which is basically how I pumped out that tutorial recently, but it doesn't happen often.

[The Black Mamba]

Can't eat before I animate, drink lots of water, music.

[socks]

Do an animation in a 2 hour time frame, 5 onion skins, non-stop. And then delete it or save it.

[Gage]

In order for me to animate, I need to unplug my router