Erráns Alba: part 1 extended can be viewed here below

Finally reached the date for my film to be shown locally for a one off screening alongside five other short films. This has been the most stressful thing I've done to date, I did not reach my goal of completing the fifteen minute film, and I've been told that I had a bit of breakdown towards the end of the deadline. i myself dont know what it was and i still get it a bit to this day, its a fatigue problem where you get very fatigued suddenly if front of the computer, battle fatigue my mum says.

I had to stop altogether and then after quite a bit of rest I went into a slow workflow and it really did crawl along as I directed my father with putting sound effects onto the last sequences.

This is what's going to be shown in the theatre is nine minutes long (and is what I am posting here) but there is further five minutes of completed animation with no sound been done that can not be shown, it is the most frustrating thing, but I will have to be happy that something is being shown instead of nothing being shown.

It is true I think that i was inspired by King Kong a bit with the whole great wall aspect, however I do however have a fascination with archaeological ruins as well, I find them very inspiring.

Pixar

It just blows me away how good Pixar really are, I downloaded the new Ratatouille nine minute preview and it really doesn’t disappoint. Why are they so good?...because they have cottoned onto the fact that if you make cg stylised then its got something to it...but I mean, they also know how to light a scene, its got some of the most beautiful lighting you will ever see in a raytraced (computer generated) film.

So does Monsters.inc and Finding Nemo though too. Its this continued - oustanding, fived star quality that impresses me.

Proving once again that Pixar really are the best in the world at this.

The dream coming true

Cinema screening of the nine minutes was three days ago now...

..it was a emotional one for me as I've driven the last four years of my life towards this.

The screen was a lot bigger than I thought it would be...and wonderful thing was, the public seemed to be there, that’s really what I wanted. It was also nice to be put next to 5 other films.

It was nice to see it on the big screen and with a decent sound setup...and those 6 days of torture spent on getting the sound nice and clear (though is still appalling on this online one) certainly paid off, god the sound was hideous before it got fixed. It's yet to be fixed for the internet (internet version pretty appalling) one of the things I need to fix.

It was now that I come to think of it, another bullet point in the whole story of me getting closer to what I want. It was my first professional screening and was a emotional one for me as my entire life has be driven towards this. The cinema was bigger than i thought it would be, but still not gigantic, 67 seats i think they said...but it was very nice to be there siting next to the 5 other short films.