How did Film 1 go over? How do you feel it was received? How do you feel about it? What would you do differently? What will you change about what you are doing with your next film?
It sucked, I ran out of time and it ended up looking like hell. Which was a lesson in and of itself. Like you've said in class before, sometimes it just "happens" in a night, but the whole concept behind the film was weak, there was a frail attempt at a setup and no punchline to finish the job. It ended feeling listless and unexecuted.
The animation, also looking like hell, was moved from Illustrator into After Effects, I still don't understand why you can't add and manipulate audio in AE, the reasoning behind that makes no sense to me. If I added music to the film it could have better acted as a distraction from the on-screen badness, but the true issue is the badness itself.
In the future (Looking back in retrosepct) I wouldn't use after effects again, a lot of the projects I saw I know took less time than I put into mine and looked fine (not life-changing, but fine).
I like ToonBoom, but can't pirate [I can say that here, right? Or will I be strung up and assassinated by the SOPA-ssassins? Just being transparent.] a good copy that doesn't crash every five minutes or is the true, full version. I have messed with a demo but I refuse to put my name on any media with a bloody watermark on it, that just won't do, so until then there are labs, whatever, but I digress.
Looking back I would develop the story and the characters better, the process I used was also time consuming and backwards, I've learned more tricks and picked up on better ways of building the graphics and I'm believing those will pay off.
The next one's going to be out of this world. I know that's a stupid saying, but I don't believe in swearing on a blog, it's bad internet karma.
Signing Off.
ChieftainLife
In the future (Looking back in retrosepct) I wouldn't use after effects again, a lot of the projects I saw I know took less time than I put into mine and looked fine (not life-changing, but fine).
I like ToonBoom, but can't pirate [I can say that here, right? Or will I be strung up and assassinated by the SOPA-ssassins? Just being transparent.] a good copy that doesn't crash every five minutes or is the true, full version. I have messed with a demo but I refuse to put my name on any media with a bloody watermark on it, that just won't do, so until then there are labs, whatever, but I digress.
Looking back I would develop the story and the characters better, the process I used was also time consuming and backwards, I've learned more tricks and picked up on better ways of building the graphics and I'm believing those will pay off.
The next one's going to be out of this world. I know that's a stupid saying, but I don't believe in swearing on a blog, it's bad internet karma.
Signing Off.
ChieftainLife
No comments:
Post a Comment