Lead Animators Final Thoughts..

Well here we are... tommorow i will be goin into uni, handing in my work and then thats it... im not a student anymore!! The chapter of three years coming to a wonderful end with a short animation film i am very proud to of been a part of. Back at the start of the year when i first heard Jono's pitch, I knew straight away that i wanted to work on his film. Although the story line is completely different now.. i have absolutely no regrets. I can also say that being the Lead Animator on the film was an honour and was very privaleged that Jono and the rest of the group trusted me with the huge task of literally animating the entire film. With a big help from Ben and Yemi, i am very pleased with the outcome of the animation. Giles did a grand job on rigging and the charcter, without him i wouldn't have been able to animate. Jenny's performance throughout the year has been outstanding. But i must pay a special congratulations to both Jono and Rob. They have stood out in the group. They took on the role as director and producer and without them the film would not have been made. The roles they took were extremely tough and they had the dedication to make schedules, (and made sure people stuck to them) put together different edits of the film throughout the year and also liased with different tutors to get advice from them for the benifit of making our film better.

This whole year has been so tough.. it has been very challenging and i have learnt so much. I came into this film with the specialist skill of being an animator, although there is always room for improvement, i am still very pleased with my efforts and am so impressed with my developments. With different people having different specialists i was able to learn skills from them and with everyone having to do a little bit of everything anyway it was good to learn and practise different parts of the production process.

Teamwork was the most important aspect of this film. and you cannot take teamwork for granted. While making the film i have learned that planning is the key!! although at the timne the pre-production process seemed to go on forever, looking back i feel that we could have done more... obviously this was the first film we had made in a group and i have learnt that nothing should be untouched.. you need to discuss absolutely everything in detail. and make sure everyone is absolutely clear on what is goin on..

But anyway i think im rambling on a bit now.. its very late and i have probably about 3 days worth of sleep to catch up on. But all i want to say is a big thank you to everyone.. it has been an emotional journey, an experience i will never forget, and i wish everyone the very best of luck in the future.