Honestly, I am scared of scraping anything I put months of effort into. The last time I did something similar to that sent me into a 3 year depression. After putting months of effort to storyboard the pilot just to throw away the 370 individual drawing I made for it would feel terrible.
Maybe if you
hadn't just gone and drawn up a bunch of drawings before
you had a solid goddamn clue of the story plot in full with its bible you wouldn't have wasted so much time.
That's
also the exact same reason why
profesionals in the field of cartooning don't draw a single fucking line before the bible and scripts are all done.
You don't want to ditch so much work even though razing everything to the ground and starting from scratch would be better in the long run? You do know that they tear old buildings
down before erecting new ones in their place, right? Yes, a lot of work went into building those old structures, but if those structures are no longer useable, there's no point in trying to force them into working again when it would be easier just to start anew.
The best option as I see it would be to finish what I started doing. If it fails, I understand the process of what I'm doing, have improved drawing and even music (I'm making the background music and theme for the show), and I would be able to make a better product next time. Not to mention, the feedback from the project as a whole would be more helpful than the feedback from it as an idea.
Hold the fuck up.
You're literally whining about having to potentially ditch so many hours of work.
But you are
also saying that you are more willing to devote more effort and work toward finishing what you've started
with the knowledge you are going to ditch it all in the end.
You are
not learning anything by finishing something you already know you aren't going to go with. All you are doing is making more work to bitch about having to dump than you did before, because
you're so fucking stuborn. You don't
want to admit you fucked up and wasted time with the drawings, but the hard truth is:
you were going to go this path anyway.
On the other hand, scrapping the project would send me into depression for a long while. And when I start next project, it would end up maybe slightly better than the first.
Sorry for my ramblings, and what may you could conceive as "ignoring the problem". I just see finishing what I started would benefit me and the others more. And sorry about some of my rambling before, it's pretty hard to reply to several angry people at the same time and keep a level head.
Stop with the emotional bullshit, you yourself even state the screwed up pilot work so far is just "learning how to do this kind of stuff." You're getting all torn up about the possibility of your "hard work" so far being all for naught.
But let me tell you something. I've spent WEEKS trying to get a clear coat spray on the shield attachment for my 1/144 EMS-10 Zudah model to set correctly. Every single time it gets fucked up and I only recently finally figured out that I had to strip it completely clean of the previous layers and start all over with a different approach. Was it a lot of time and effort wasted simply to learn that simple lesson? No, because it
wasn't wasted. I
learned what had to be done eventually through trial and error. We all must fuck up repeatedly before getting things right, but you?
You hate that idea of so much work done for little gain. But what you also do not understand is that while the immediate return is small, the application of that lesson will pay off in dividends later on because
you know not to make those mistakes and know how not to make those mistakes ever again. And while it took stupidly long, I got that damn shield coating to set perfectly so I can finally slap the unit emblems on it and finish the fucking thing, along with some insight as to how that spray reacts to masking materials I have on hand. For you? Restarting from scratch now by
learning to do the written shit of the cartoon first before drawing a single fucking line is going to save you time and effort, as will
not going into a depressive state over goddamn nothing because you being all depressed and shit is being less productive than anything else you could possibly do.