After Effects...... oh after effects.
This week I was shown some amazing things on after effects. I think what I learned this week saved my enthusiasm for after effects because I was beginning to lose faith. Due to copyright issues my original idea which i was very much in love with was crushed an did not feel like going on. However, I was brought back from this dark abyss of digital depression by a simple technique which made all the difference. At first I was going to give up on my idea, I wanted to persevere but I could not find the will to do so. Jedigital (Digital Jedi) master Ginger Jarvis showed me how to create an effect which gave my project a whole new feel which re-ignited my creative fire and faith in my assignment. There's a very special you get when you create something exactly the way it looked in your mind when you first thought of it. Sometimes when you have a really good idea it can be difficult to create it. It might be the technology you are using which cannot fulfill your desires or maybe you just don't know how to do what it is you want, which is usually the most frustrating thing ever.
I do not think that it will receive hte critical acclaim i think it deserves though. In all of my digital media assignments, I don't try to do anything super flashy. I'd rather do something simple and solid and do it right rather than try to add too many flashy components and make it look terrible. I don't have the patience for most of the stuff we do in this course, which I guess is a hurdle I will have to overcome at some point, but until then, it is going to be an interesting and painful journey.
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