Applied Animation- Final Crit

Final Crit

For the final crit, we had only been able to film fully the outside scenes with set 2 and the diggers. So going into a room full of people who think you have done nothing was hard to do. We had started to do other scenes but they weren't finished so we couldn't put them over the anamatic. We were able to show the very underdone progress so people could see what we had got done but this was still something that was a hard task as it was embarrassing to show at the time. I still know we can get everything done, but at the time of the crit, we weren't at that place yet.

Once we had shown what we had and said what our plan was our tutor said it was ok to be where we were at as this was showing our pre-production work and how much work goes into an animated stop-motion before the animating can even be done. We agreed because we are the only ones in the class who couldn't do any of this work at home to it proved to be very difficult as a task. We were then given feedback from people.

This caused us to be more stressed because all they wanted to do was change the only bits of film we had, so unrealistic things. They thought the smoke looked more like clouds or bubbles, which was something to take on board as we didn't realise this so were very disappointed. Yet they said to re-film it with the set upside down and the camera upside down. I know what they meant, as gravity will pull the strands upwards but it was a useless comment because there would be no real way for us to do this so it was coming form people who didn't understand stop-motion at all. It was more stressful for the fact that we actually couldn't re-film this scene becuase I have had to change the set 2 since then and now have foliage glued all over it, so it was sad to think that the set I am most proud of was something they really didn't like.

After this crit, we were all down-heartened as we felt like failures. So this was a real tough day. So we tried to prove that we were good enough and filmed a great majority of the animation after this got everything we wanted sorted so we worked as a team to pull ourselves up and get going.