Ah man the things I've had to let go this semester. The biggest I let go was the idea I had for my 3rd film. It was an idea I had well before the semester even started and I really reaaaaaally wanted to do. But when it came time to start of the 3rd film realism set in and I knew there was no way I'd be able do this movie the way I fully wanted to. I knew I'd end up having to shortcut in it, shorten it, or something and in the end I wouldn't be happy with it. In the end I like the 3rd film idea I had, I may have been unhappy with its outcome but it is something I could, and should, revisit one day. I abandoned a few things in my first film, which honestly, turned out to be a huge mistake. I tried to simplify it too much. Luckily I learned from that.
Something else I picked up on with this course was I'm not sure I like having to deal with software too much when it comes with animating. Which points me to the beautiful form of stop-motion. It is such a gorgeous form, but boy is it a painfully long process. But it's a lot easier to work with a puppet, in my opinion. I just have to work on timing, but hey, that is something that everybody has to work on, amirite?
Possibly my favourite thing I picked up from the class didn't even come directly from the course itself: voice acting. I've heard from quite a few people before that I would make a decent VA, and I think I got the proof I needed this semester. From what I've gotten to see people tend to get a good chuckle out of my VA work.
So yea, I think that just about wraps it up. This was a good, but painful, experience.
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