Overall Experience - Broken
For the last couple of months, Iāve been working on a short movie called broken, I dedicated my whole focus and energy on this short. I started working on this project with the mindset of a filmmaker. Thatās what I would like to become in the future, so I tried to cover all parts as much as I can and I think I did a pretty good job. For me to say that I first compared my final product with all the projects Iāve previously done and tried to point out the differences.Ā
After doing that I noticed how much I evolved, how much I learned and how easier it was for me to find solutions for problems I had while working, That for me is a huge step forward. During my previous projects, whenever I had a problem I did not know how to fix or work around, I would go to someone I know who works in the field and try to take his or her advice. While working on Broken however I pushed myself harder and researched things related to the obstacle Iām having until I found a solution, and that was extremely satisfying and rewarding.
Another thing that helped me a lot with that was my blog, When I was first told that I will have to document every step of my work and ideas, I was extremely overwhelmed and it honestly stressed me out, It felt like a task I wish I could skip. Whenever I saw a movie or something that I liked I would usually just save it and that would be it, so it was hard for me, in the beginning, to look at other projects in a critical eye. Once I got the hang of it and started to do it on a weekly basis I loved it, it helped me grow as a creator and helped me become critical even to my own work.Ā
One other thing my blog helped with is self-evaluation. In the span of just 2 months, I could see the difference in my work even on the same project. So I was just lying around one day looking at old projects I did in the same year and was very impressed and proud of the progress I had made.
As for my final major project Broken, when I first started I was extremely ambitious, I planned on doing things that were way out of my league, and very challenging. I set goals I want to attain and I am very thankful I did that because now I feel like there is nothing I canāt learn to do, Iāve spent more than 10 hours daily working on this project and I reached all the goals I set to myself. I know for a fact that my movie is not the best out there and I still have a VERY long way to go, but it is definitely a stepping stone for me because I did things in it I never thought I could do. As for the different decisions I took while working on broken, there was a few I regretted and made my life harder, like the design of the environment, I did an isometric view in my pre-production phase and It is extremely detailed (compared to all the environments I have previously done) while working on it, I hated myself for it but when I see the end result now I thank god I did the extra effort and pushed my design farther. the details I added if noticed can be funny and like a cherry on top, but if not nothing would be missed from the whole story. As for the characters, I went for a very simple design because my main focus was animation, I always used to have the same comment that my character animation lacks personality so I wanted that to be my main focus. I can say with so much confidence that I got this covered in broken, the difference in my 3 characterās personalities can be obviously seen from the way I animated and the key poses I did.Ā
So far all the evaluation of Broken I talked about is coming from me, I wanted to see if what I felt was true so I sent my final product to different professional people in the field and took their opinions into consideration and fixed the comments they had for me, that pushed my project for the better. Plus I sent it to my former teachers to see what they had to say especially that they already know what level I was at, and their feedback was as I hoped it would be.
As for the overall experience, I am extremely proud of myself and the final product, as I said earlier, I know for sure that I still have a lot to learn and a huge span to evolve in, but this project made me discover an endurance and passion I have I never knew existed, so I know that I have the patience and tendencies to learn more and more. And my next goal is that one day I look at broken and feel the same way I felt now when I saw all my old projects.













