What with there being a deadline for this project, we've had to plan our time all properly. I think that i've been pretty good in someways with this, like i've managed to set up a D.I.Y animation studio at college which involved reading up about it quite alot, in books and on the internet, as well as having to buy some parts and build a few little bits here and there. This is what it looks like:
I also managed to get about a thousand clear sheet of acetate for free, which mean that i can use cell animation, which as someone pointed out was " how they did things like Disney." i don't think my animation is going to be very much like Disney. more. like dismal. (see how I'm a funny guy and all.) But with these acetate sheets i also had to make them all register the same under the camera, so i had to hole-punch them all and then drill holes in a little piece of wood the same distance apart as the hole-pucher holes, and then glue in some "pins" to this wood and tape it to the table under the camera. So now the acetate sheets can all fit on to these two pins and be in the same place every time.
When I explain this to people they don't always understand. I know this because we had a group critique at college. Its where you have to talk about your work in small groups. The teacher running ours was being assessed so it was all quite proper. Alot of assessing goes on in education. Anyway I could some people said they didn't understand. But i thinks its ok. See its not like they couldn't understand the idea of the film, or the style of animation; just the processes used.
The problem is that it can be difficult to understand all the things that I'm going to have to do to make this film, let alone be able to reflect on them very well. Not really difficult like famine. Or drought or civil war. Difficult in the way that a marmite jar can be difficult to open in the marmite gets all in the grooves.
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