Presentations

Presentation day went pretty well for me, except for a few frantic moments where a group of us students, thinking that we had plenty of time waltzed up to the copier on the 4th floor and then found out that it had run out of toner, then ran downstairs to the 3rd floor copier only to find out that we needed our student pin numbers to make the copies, then ran to the computer to check our e-mail for said pin... you get the idea.
There were some really good stories in there. I hope that everyone who pitched today has the opportunity to bring their projects to fruition. It will be an impressive array of final films if we do. Either way it will be fun to watch them all evolve from the seed of a concept in a brainstorming session all the way to the final product.
We have stories about animals playing checkers. Super heroes, robots, a superstitious man and his lottery ticket, a couch potato, a thirsty man in the dessert, a bowl full of vegetables, and so many more. It was really a great time seeing everyone's vision. It seems to say so much about who they are and what their interests are. Like watching a 6-4, 200 plus pound dude from Brazil act out his animation concept to the tune of Stevie Wonder's very superstitious. That one was a showstopper!
Now comes the hard part, we just have to model (sculpt in virtual space) rig (apply skeletons so they move properly) light, build props, animate, edit, add sound, and of course the biggie render (the time consuming process of waiting for the computer to turn all the information into an actual picture 24 times to give you a second of animation, looking at it, seeing how its still not quite right, fixing it and waiting all over again.)
But for now I think I'll just breathe a sigh of relief that, for the moment, public speaking is over. Tomorrow it's nose back to grindstone/monitor and we'll see what we can do.

Hope everyone out there is doing well. Hopefully soon I'll have some screen caps of some props for my story.

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-Davinci