3rd year - Semester 1 overview

  

Animation can be hard. I knew that when I signed up for it (kind of) but nothing could prepare me for, a lack of drawing, nightmares about spreadsheets, constantly attatched to my phone, handing out work to others, and having to quit/ firing people. I never thought I’d be cut out for it... but if I’ve proven anything to myself this year, its that, I never cease to surprise myself.

I used my powers of persuasion to boring people onto the project I was working on, I learnt new skills to fill the gaps in projects. I enticed the group members to work with the promise of the Animators 3 most wanted treats: Coffee, Alcohol, and Yummy Treats. 

  

I think the multi-coloured post-it notes I always seemed to have on me also helped with production, but who knows. This semester, working on these project, the year really has banded together. You have producers from different friendship circles making friends and giving each other tips -  I think they Should have made it mandatory for lead roles to have meetings to get other opinions, but thats just mine I guess. We had a lot of break downs in our year. Tomas wore his comfort blanket in uni far more than both previous years put together and others began opting for similar coping techniques for the rigorous hours. With 14 films in the making and only 6 3rd years per team we are all a little spread thin, and most of us working on more than the allowed 2 film maximum to extend our show reels. It’s causing stress, and alcoholism, but it is Uni after all and I guess, even with all the distress this semester has caused,  we are all looking forward to the next semester. atleast, I truest am. The films are going to be amazing, they have to be in order to make up for the depressing fact that none of us will probably ever see each other again after graduation. It’s a sad thought but Uni has been amazing, and I’m glad 3rd year, semester 1 has really brought everyone together, even if it was in joint dispare. 

The Easter holiday check list

Easter Holidays has been, so far, a horrific time. Overwhelming amounts of work with no time to complete it all. I wrote the list (below) to help me organise my time, no order of importance, just a list as i thought of them... more tasks have been added since and still none of it completed. The problem is, i never know where to start, and the stress of all the work and the list with nothing checked off it stalking my dreams. I've started some of the tasks, such as the parallax piece, and completed 2 of the 5 perspective drawings, I've started foliage drawings for my sketchbook but with no idea of how many drawings i am meant to do, the size, the mediums - the brief gave no detail. there are many things half done, started or almost there but then i look at the list and read down the list until theres something that doesn't sound too horrifically stressful to start. What I'm saying is. Animation is hard, its loads of drawing the same thing over and over again, and i want to get it all started so that i can finalise all the pieces on the same day and skip the crossing out of bullet points and just throw the whole list away, its just getting there, to that point...