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The fraud is here


Genuinely did not expect to get a place at MAF but you wont hear me complaining. At the briefing session i felt so out of place as i felt all these artsy farsty people knew far more than i was. With Anijam screening later on the week and we were asked if we had an animation that was going to screened, obviously i mentioned Flock together and felt like a fraud when people congratulated me. Well I guess its always good to make a good first impression. I did feel tho that was exposed when screening was shown and my clips were so horrible and pixilated because i had done it in the wrong resolution and in Photoshop. Maybe it wasn't noticeable on the phone but when blown up it looks horrendous, but we still won an award so again i cant complain, even though Adam wanted that judges award too.



 I do think i let the team down but i learned so much from them two days and i cant really express how grateful i am that they let this fraud work with them. 



MAF was great overall although i was standing and sitting a lot of the time and would of wanted to be doing more jobs. Met some lovely people, although i didn't go with the mindset of networking more just to get a feel of the industry and the people around it, perhaps if i had a strong show reel to show i would of been more inclined to network. I got to watch a lot of animations even though i was all animation-ed out i left with a deep feeling of inspiration and motivation. 





The movie Tito and the birds i found really relevant my group project, i thought the animation was great and a fine use of cut out rigged animation. 



The movie that really surprised me was the french movie about union strikes called A Man is dead. The animation was based on a comic book, although i couldn't tell and only found out about it after. I thought the characters were deep and it made me care for the characters, the animation quality wasn't as good, still a high standard but i was more impressed of the storytelling.





 I had a great experience and am definately applying next year again this time armed with an amazing showreel. 
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