so what's been happening..

For everyone reading my blog and being curious what's been happening to me and my film:
Me and "das Wartezimmer" got a really good grade, that's to say an A+! And I was really stoked - well actually thrilled is a better word, when I got 2 awards on top of that!! One for "best bachelor project" and another one for "best overall grade", each worth 1000€. And of course I have an official title now: Marina Friedl Bachelor of Arts in Media Design.
The fotograph above shows me getting one of my awards from the governing mayor of Schäbisch Hall :)
And I think this is the right place and time to thank once again all the lovely people who have been supporting me: Prof. Guido Kühn, Prof. Beate Ehrmann and Christian M. Fischer, who have been advising my project, Steffen Mayer, Ingo Schaefer, Simon Barr, Rose Bond, Kim Collmer, Chrissie Spiess and first of all my family.

It's done, done, done!!!

What an incredible feeling: a mixture between satisfaction, pride, total happiness and exhaustion. "das Wartezimmer" is all done!! .. and I handed it in this morning together with my theory. I'm sure I must have overseen a few quirky little mistakes, but hey: whatever! Considering the magnitude of the project and my level of experience, I've done an awesome job and am giving myself a pat on the back in this very moment :)
My film will be shown in our Bachelor exhibition which starts tomorrow in the Fachhochschule, the final exam presentation will be on the 8th of July and then we'll have the Bachelor ceremony on the 12th.
I'll upload the film shortly on Youtube for everyone to see. I'll post a note here as soon as it is online. And hey: thanks heaps for looking at my stuff! :)

Intro Animation

Ladies and gentlemen: let me introduce the intro of my animation short. I'll probably change a few things again, tweak things a bit and stuff, but generally this is what it's gonna look like. I haven't put any sound underneath it yet but I'm working on it. Hopefully more will come soon...

look refined

I've been refining the look of my backgrounds and have been playing around with lighting also over the weekend. I've applied textures and a bit of shading. In addition to that I've got my first scene animated. I'm quite happy with it but it took way to long, so I really need to speed up a little now...

Fräulein Meier-Willbrich

And yet another smashing character featured in my little bachelor animation: Fräulein Meier-Willbrich. She is the mistress of her realm and the most caring human being when it comes to potted plants. But in case your no Ficus Benjamini you better watch out, as you'll officially be labeled a disturber of the peace!

one more

and just because I'm in such a good mood today... another animatic screenshot which features my protagonist Florian Heimerl :)
(actually this is the opening shot of my short film)

Animatic Screenshot

Sooo... another weekend of not having any spare time has passed by... and although I have been real busy and productive, I didn't manage to work through the amount of stuff that I originally had on my schedule. Which means I have half an animatic now...

Anyway, after another meeting with my advising profs today, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel (and I hope it's not the train...).

The picture above is a screenshot of my animatic (my favorite one actually, cause Klößchen is by far my favorite character). More will follow soon. The full animatic is due monday so I'll have another lovely weekend locked up in my refuge.

However, I'll try to listen to my mum who said "just don't forget that you're actually enjoying what you're doing!" - she's right, I tend to forget that sometimes...

..and another one

alright, here's another character named Kevin alias "Gameboy Kevin". He's the typical asshole kid that has got no social competence whatsoever. He's the result of a childhood spent in front of the TV and a divorced mother that tried to make up the lack of attention with all sorts of material goods, preferably computer games.

Right now I'm trying to get some sense into my plot, so I can make my advising profs happy. The last meeting with them has had the result that I had to redo and change quite a bunch of things, but what they said made all perfect sense actually.

Haven't slept much the past week and at some stage I thought I am actually going crazy, but I guess everything's gonna be just fine...

Sneek preview and synopsis

Et voilá: the first character sneek preview of my bachelor animation short film "das Wartezimmer"(the waiting room).

And this is roughly what it's about: The protagonist Florian Heimerl needs to get an autograph of his doctor. He arrives at his practice and asks the receptionist to get it for him, but instead of fullfilling this task immediately, the heavyset woman sends him into the waiting room. An this is where Heimerl's odyssey starts... he'll be spectator and "victim" of the strange behaviours of his fellow occupants - the corpulent Ms Breitfuss with her overweight infant Klößchen, granpa Wilfried who is hooked up to a breathing apparatus and the rude Gameboy kiddo Kevin.

I'm done designing all the characters, but I'm not gonna post them all at once - to keep up the curiosity :P