Production 1

uhhhhhhhhhhhh sooooooo


By the time I started working on production, Ryan had already filmed basically everything we needed. This meant B-roll, Interviews etc. This was really unfortunate for me since it left us with an unbalanced workload that I didnt really want. Ryan told me that I could contribute to the production with an animation, and aspects of editing. I was kind of bummed out that I wasnt able to make it to the filming because the teacher Ryan interviewed seemed like such a cool person, but it was whatever.



So anyways, onto the animation.........

I hate it so much.



Okay so the thing about this is I dont really have animation experience. I have literally only created very simplistic animations with 0 technique incorporated in the past, with all of them being purely for fun. That meant that I was supposed to create an animation (that was originally supposed to be like minimum 15 seconds long) surrounding Ryan's original idea, with essentially 0 good experience and very little knowledge.

I did it anyways :3

I began with a few test trials, such as the one provided. I personally liked the direction this one was going in, but Ryan felt it didnt really capture his vision, so I moved to a more simple style, which did help speed up the pace of which I could make it.

The day after this attempt, I had a class with a friend who had proper animation experience, so I decided to ask for help with techinique. What I ended up learning was that sometimes making certain slower frames play twice (or atleast a indirect copy with no actual movement) can help create a pace in the animation, compared to just having everything be at the exact same speed. Its like flowy or something idk.

With the final draft nearing, I felt a bit more ready to approach it, so one day I grabbed my laptop, and........



Wait.....


Okay so everything sucks I got sick (just like I am rn typing this!!! :333) and everything got delayed further. I feel like such a slob because I really didnt do much during those like 2-3 days in which I was dying.

Alas, I had to eventually continue, with few days left I panicked and finished a version of the final animation I wished to polish.

I kind of got grounded (I cant do anything right can I) so I really just like couldnt send it or work on it until last minute... yknow... cuz i didnt have my computer...

When I got ungrounded (day it was due I think) I polished up the stuff that bothered me the most and sent it. 

phew! I hate it so much 😁🥹🥺