MY FILM IS FINISHED!!

2018-05-21 06:08:36

I FINISHED MY FILM PROJECT. 90 shots. 80 something backgrounds. Lots of blood, sweat and tears.....mostly over Animate crashing and problems trying to get After Effects to do the most simple of things. It's cheesy, full of old lazy drawings and animation that could be punchier.... but I learnt so much while making it. It’s pretty emotional for me to share it finally since I spent a lot of late nights working on this.
Watch my film here!
After some time working in the industry and improving my draftsmanship, plus seeing how Disconnected was well received on Youtube, I've gotten even more fired up about animation. Not even the concept of animation as a commercial thing, but the idea of actually having a go and making it myself. Even if my drawings are lumpy it's really exhilarating to make my own stuff. My only goals I set when starting this was to make a new film and get better at animating so I think I can say I did that.

I learnt about planning and approaching animation in a much more efficient and smarter way, picked up some new After Effects tricks to speed up stuff. Even if it doesn't look like much, I chipped away at this for a looonng time, I started it mid 2017 to be precise, so I'm not so proud of most of the scenes lol. I really wanted to stick to my gut and try and create a believable animated world the best I could within the duration of this story. I could've spent a few more months polishing backgrounds and re-doing animation like an absolute lunatic but honestly, saying something is finished is a skill in itself. Also I guess I was haunted by teachers telling me you'll have no time to make your own animations once you're out working in the industry, so I wanted to prove people like that completely wrong. Don't tell people they can't make things just because you don't. Some people make the time to make stuff because its' what they love.

I initially story boarded this to Chrysalis Heart (Stereojackers vs Mark Loverush remix) by Delerium but once I decided I wanted to make it a real thing, I found a song that was instrumental and more suitable. I got permission from an amazing musician Onoken to use this song. I found his work through all the online searching I do to find good Touhou fan music, So I guess you can say my Touhou obsession indirectly got me somewhere. I thought i'd have more to say since I worked on this forever, but my brain is mostly mush so I gotta just binge shows and draw fanart guilt free for a looooong time now. Also PS. the lanky character is a Bilby. That's my way of getting a bit of Australiana into an otherwise fantasy story.

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