#flamingorich

Question: How successful has the film been? Answer: When I answered this question in the video, I only had about three days since the release to go off of. Now that it's been nearly nine months since Double Rainboom's release, I can better answer this question. I'd say the film has been extremely successful with regards to its original purpose - that purpose being an educational experience. The whole point of creating it was to learn more about the process required to create an animated production from scratch, and learn what I'm good at and what I'm not good at so that I can address the areas I'm not strong in and make my next film stronger as a result. So what did I do wrong? • I've learned that I need to market my productions better and be more aware of how potential plot twists can alienate viewers who were expecting something completely different. As a result I've taken a step back from marketing and have hired someone else to take over that for me. • I've learned that I'm not the greatest writer, but I'm really good at coming up with cool ideas. As a result I've taken several steps back from engaging in any form of writing and have hired a team of writers to take care of creating screenplays, handling dialogue, and writing announcements and other promotional material for me. • I've learned how important editing is to the process of creating a film, and how I pretty much skipped that part for Double Rainboom. The pacing could have been improved tremendously and a good eight-to-ten minutes should have been trimmed off to improve the experience. I've since hired a few people to help with editing when the time comes for True Tail. • I've learned that I'm decent with voice direction, but not the best. As a result I've hired someone else to handle recording dialogue and hiring/working with voice actors. So what did I do right? • On a positive note, I've learned that I'm very good at Art Direction. Despite its flaws, Double Rainboom looks good! It's very well-animated and has a highly engaging and detailed world that feels like one solid place - which is an important result seeing as how dozens and dozens of different artists all worked on it. • I've also learned that I'm very good a Crew Management and keeping people motivated. We had 105 people work on Double Rainboom throughout the year it took to make it and I had to be extremely charismatic and highly organized in order to keep everything together and production flowing. • I've also learned that I'm fairly good at directing sound design and orchestral composing. While not the best at creating it, I can certainly critique and "speak the language of sound" to my composers and sound designers in order to create emotional undertones and an atmosphere that is integrated seamlessly with the visuals. 60% of any visual production is sound, and I believe Double Rainboom succeeded at that. In Conclusion? So my answer to the original question is this: Double Rainboom, despite having several flaws that turned off a lot of viewers, is still extremely successful. It taught me and my crew a tremendous amount about how to create an animated production, it is an incredible achievement and success story for what a fandom is capable of creating when they are organized and dedicated, it has served as an excellent foundation from which to launch Skynamic Studios and begin my next project, it caused several of its crewmembers to get hired in the animation industry (including myself), it has nearly 7 million views on YouTube, and most importantly: it's just a heck of a lot of fun to watch!

Question: Why doesn't this count as your Senior Film?