Holy smokes, I can't believe I'm about to start animating the last scene of my film! It's so exciting!!
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There's a lot (a lot) more work to do after that though, I have to render a shadow pass for everything in the scene, then there's compositing, color correction, etc. My sister will be doing all the post-production sound, so that's something I don't need to worry about
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It's been an amazing year, this 4th year of Animation, but it has gone by so much faster than the other three! And after that there's graduation...man, I don't even want to think about that right now. It's exciting and scary at the same time...going out to the real world and paying your own rent, and being completely free. I can't wait though. I'm pretty sure I learned more about myself than about animation here in college, and I think it's the same for everyone around me. Everybody has changed a lot in the last four years, or grown up I should say.
And really, animation has taught me that life is like a movie. The whole movie, it's sequences, scenes and shots are always divided in three acts: setup, conflict and resolution. Everything has a motivation, the characters tend to come in late and leave early, and there's always a twist. It needs lots of editing, and requires suspension of disbelief from the viewer. And like one of my favourite teachers here told us in his last class: "Every good story has four elements: hope, redemption, truth and justice". I believe him. I'm hoping the last scene of this film will be the best, and that there will be many more to come!
Ok, I got carried away, hahaha, this was a long journal entry and I don't know if it makes a whole lot of sense, but I felt like writing it
. It's back to work now!