Extended Practice: Lessons Learned / Post-Submission Plan

Organization of scenes v storyboard panels

The animation has been finalized for submission. There are many things to reflect upon as well as consideration for the future in regards to WHAT shall be done with this graduation film. Firstly, as evidenced by the background artist leaving, I will find a new background artist with a motivational incentive for the project, since if it gets submitted to a festival it will offer exposure both for me and the artist. Planning this in advance, all of the animated shots have been divided among separate After Effects and corresponding Photoshop files for each one. I have done this so meticulously so that when the new backgrounds are created it would be extremely easy to replace them within the After Effects files without affecting the animation or the synced and exact frames per shot. On another note, for submission the credits have not been animated. I haven't thought of any ideas for how the credits would look like, however after the final crit session on the 3rd of May I got a suggestion to make them form with smoke, complementary to the final cigarette-lighting scene. This would be another post-submission task to handle in order to finish the animation to an aesthetically-pleasing standard fit for festival submission. As for the music - all of the music for the animation was provided by my collaborators from Leeds College of Music - Ryan Scott and Harry Laird - which will be respectively credited in the final festival version of my animation. All of the sound effects were found on https://freesound.org, where every single one of them were established with the Creative Commons 0 license, fit for public domain without any attribution. The soundscape of the animation is finished for every completed scene, and omitted for every placeholder one (for the sounds mimic the movement). For any future projects I believe it would be more than efficient to develop a rubric for order of production in order to eliminate any self-inflicted obstacles - a formality that I must implement.