What are you gonna do if you get to Dec 1st and the video isn't done? Will you set a new, even more ridiculous deadline?
setting a more ridiculous deadline would be hard, because it would have to be in the past at that point. but i will re negotiate, and play it just as tight. the great news is, having this deadline in effect (which it has been since about mid october) has probably reduced the *actual* production time by as much as 2 months. i mean, in october i was potentially looking at what could have been a years worth of work, if i tried to do a slow, careful, thoughtful job. but after setting the dec 1 deadline and slamming through the past 4 weeks on insano mode, it is now almost guaranteed that it will be done by jan 1, but only if i keep taking dec 1 seriously. i am still taking it seriously. aiming to have the graphics done by this thursday, which would mean i have to double my speed from last week, which was already doubled from the speed i was working on the history of japan graphics