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The Finale (for realsies)

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Goodbye everyone. This project is the last thing I will have done before becoming an adult (legally, not mentally). It's a really weird feeling. I don't want to say I'm very attached to it, but I've been working on it for over a month, and working on this blog for even longer. I love this shithole of a website. My CCR  itself is pretty crap; I really only cared about the opening (sorry). I only used two sources (again, oopsie). “What Is Science Fiction Writing? Definition and Characteristics of Science Fiction Literature - 2024.” MasterClass , 1 Sept. 2021, www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-science-fiction-writing-definition-and-characteristics-of-science-fiction-literature. Menadue, Christopher Benjamin, and Susan Jacups. Who Reads Science Fiction and Fantasy, and How Do They ... , James Cook University, 2018, researchonline.jcu.edu.au/54351/1/WhoReadsSFnF.pdf. Regardless of how bad the CCR is, I'm so proud of how much I tried on the opening, even if I did procr...
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The Finale (film finale not post finale)

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INCANDESCENCE
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Reflection (not creative nor critical (nor creative and critical))

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Well. Shit. There's so much I can say about this project, but there's even more I already  have  said. It's been such a deranged journey for me. When I started, I decided I only had two goals: to try my absolute best, and to actually enjoy the process of making it. There's been times where I struggled to fulfill either, but now that I'm almost at the end, I can finally say, without a shadow of a doubt: I am not cut out for this shit. I don't know if I enjoyed it. I think just having  a due date is enough to stress me the hell out, even if it is over a month's worth of time. Also, I lost a week of being able to work on this due to STN, but even then I'm not sure if I would've made adequate use of that extra time. I absolutely did try, though. Even if I procrastinated at some points, I worked my ass off when it counted, and I hope anyone who sees the opening, regardless of whether or not they enjoyed it, can tell that I put all my effort in. To wrap it...
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I'm going insane again As I write this I'm fixing some last-minute shit with the spaceship. My computer is currently crashing while trying to combine about 36,000 vertices into one object because I messed up the materials at some point. I don't even know anymore I'm just tired. This all happened because I wanted to add a little thruster trail behind the thingamabob and realized the solar panels were transparent. I don't know what happened or why but I solved it to the best of my ability, which is saying very little. If this fixes it I'm going to re-add the trail; if that ruins it again then I will say [ F-WORD ] the trail and leave it out. And then I will begin to sob profusely. I hate this project. I want to graduate. Now. I fixed it. The solar panel texture is stretched out for some reason but I don't give a shit about that. I have many, many words that describe how I feel about Blender, but I will keep them to myself. On the bright side it only takes four...
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back at it like a crack addict

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The Devil works hard. I don't. I've been Blender-ing my ass off recently. First thing I did was fix the animation for the black hole; when I DM'ed the creator he mentioned adding a copy rotation modifier to the accretion disc, which was something I did when following the tutorial. At least, I thought I did. Turns out I didn't see the Apply  button so it never actually went into affect. Whatever, though. It's fixed now. After I finished that, I tried using  this tutorial  to add a realistic star background to the animation. I didn't think it'd be possible, though, because the black hole itself uses a shitload of math to bend the light within Blender. Unfortunately my guess was correct; since the stars are all different light sources, the ones around the perimeter of the black hole bend weirdly. It's not super easy to see in the photo, but if you look closely it's noticeable. If anything I'll add a background in post if it's not too much of a h...
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i want better for you, maurice

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The Political and Economic State of the World Right Now I have not edited jack SHIT these past two days. In my defense, I'm burnt out from literally everything and I need a break. Also in my defense, editing does not take that long. I can knock out a line edit and soundscape in one night, and it's not that hard to add VFX, seeing as I'm literally just following tutorials. Coloring might take a while if I choose to take my time with it, but also I'm lazy and want to finish this shit already. The hardest part is going to be the spaceship. I watched the tutorial fully, and while it's possible to follow along, it relies on you to eyeball the modeling, whereas the black hole was just copying the numbers I saw on-screen. Speaking of the black hole, I DM'ed the original creator, Alaskan FX, to ask how he animated it. I have no damn clue what this means but. Okay. Better than nothing It's Tuesday I'm in New Orleans. Hooray. I also haven't done any editing. Y...
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eh.

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thank you kyrie irving Today was filming day. It went alright. I think I've made it very clear by now how much I dislike filming. This shoot was definitely one of my better ones, though that's not to say it went perfectly. I asked Santi and Mateo to come at 3PM, and we'd hopefully wrap at 6PM. The filming location was my mom's house, but I'm at my dad's until my birthday, so I sped on over to my mom's practically as soon as I got up. That gave me a couple of hours to prepare both the equipment and the set. I decided last-second to add a bunch of sticky notes with "book notes" to the desk to increase the sense of freneticism. By last-second I mean I decided yesterday and procrastinated actually adding them. Oops? Another thing I decided to do yesterday was print out a picture of some white dude winning an award, then cover his face with sticky notes to imply that it was Noah who won the award. Little sprinkle of worldbuilding for ya there. The quali...
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