Finally

After about 11 months, my movie, going to be showing at the Western film fest, will be done very soon. I think i have about 5 more scenes and then as many fixes as a want to do, then some quick editing, then i am done. 7 minutes of pure animation, i have no idea how many hours i spent working on it, or how many hours the computer spent rendering it, but it sure is a big thing.

And something that makes me feel good, is that in movies like the incredibles, the animators probably only get a minute of their own work in the whole movie, while i get a whole 7 minutes.

Another thing i have noticed with animation, is how much detail you can see in your own work. I can see every tiny, little mistake and every thing i like, everytime i watch it.

Animation also taught me about, good preparation, always plan how you will do everything, before starting a giant project, such as editing, animating, modelling etc. and work hard on all of it, because it will save you lots of time later.

But something else i learned, is that you can start a scene in a movie, with only a thought about what it will look like and just let it build ifself, this usually works.

And finally, always take an extra five minutes at the end of getting a scene, ready to check everything, before commiting to five hours of computer rendering and finding that is leaf is blocking the camera ( this actually happened today).

And my finally thought of the day, is that when playing halo with a cold, all of your symptomes will suddenly disappear, no runny nose, no headache, no tiredness, no coughing. Though i did find that after playing for too long, right after i sometimes did get a little headache. I wonder why this happens...

Kyler (the guy you should be hating)