Drama...

My First assignment. gah i wish that i could have created something wonderful. instead of this mediocre thing.

I was trying to go for a 'drama has so many possibilities that it is like a world unto its own' sort of feel. like in the first scene its just a huge room in which characters are created out of thin air and fly at you from all directions. they are all unique characters from many many different genres of performance... it was supposed to show you the depth of possibilities.

Um i think it looks quite SBS.. which being as i watch sbs that is unsurprising. hmm i spent along time at the beginning doing elaborate amazing masks that were huge and time consuming to animate on the characters. then Chris Denaro told me about a lovely thing called write-on which is an effect that took like 20-30 minutes of work and compressed it down into about 1 minute or less. the funny thing is for all the work i did on those masks it all goes by so quickly that you don't even notice it. good times.

there are moments in there in which is it difficult to understand why i have used certain effects, like the snow falling upwards. Things like that are just tools i have used to try and continue the magical never ending world theme... just as the writing is plentiful unreadable, because it is meant to show the vastness of dramatic possibilities.

I OBVIOUSLY hate the ending. just ending an animation with the words 'a world of never ending possibilities' how super lame could i get. if i had my way i would not end it like that.

My original temporal identity idea was of a drop falling in a white world and when it hit the floor colour would explode outwards revealing a theatre space. i tried so hard to make that idea work... but the droplet was just hideous and fake and just plain nasty. so once again i scrapped my original idea and went with something completely different.

I received a 4+ mark on this assignment (which is a pass +) dissappointing yes. i never expected a great mark but i was hoping for higher than a 4. *super sad face*