Paper Baggins

• Learned

I learned that green screen work is really tough, but it can also be quite rewarding. Next time I do my green screen work, I should definitely place my lights better so that the shadows aren't so bold. That's definitely going to kill my fictional short. That and the length...

• Want to learn

 Better green screen tactics? Uh... How to use a green screen better? I don't know.

• Frustrated you

My keying is turning out horribly. It is definitely turning out better than I originally thought it would, but it is still agitating.

And for the first time ever, I likely won't be able to meet my time requirement unless I turn it in late. But even if I do record extra footage, what will it be? I will have to think of a new scene and I'd have to update my storyboard and everything like that. It is something I am definitely going to have to think about.

• Made you happy

I proved a nonbeliever wrong. That might sound a little mean, but when they willingly admitted that they were wrong, I felt so good about myself. Like, I believed in myself and in the end, it must have paid off somewhere, somehow.

My boyfriend has been the literal biggest help to me this past week. He has gotten me whatever I need, be it supplies, tools, etc, he gave me a wonderful birthday gift for my 18th birthday (a Wacom Intuos tablet), and he has just been such an amazing help. His selflessness is probably what got me through probably one of the hardest weeks of the year so far and it's what keeps me going. I am so lucky to have someone like him around.

• http://youtu.be/_tZzlqkIQlU

Mystery Skulls Magic, the music video! It's a beautifully rendered 3D animation and I definitely recommend checking it out!  Personally, I couldn't follow the story, not like I could follow Ghost's. It got kind of weird at the end, but the animation was just too beautiful to stop watching. The textures were beautiful and the motions were very fluid and everything seemed perfectly natural (motion-wise). Probably not a video I would watch more than a few more times, but it's still an interesting video all the same.

And if anyone is wondering what the title of this post means, I was just in a livestream with a wonderful artist and she drew her audience as paper bag people. We called ourselves The Baggins, as though we were some kind of Lord of the Rings Parody. I had a blast!