Volleyball Final Project - Post 4 - DONE!

It's always a great moment when you finally decide "Ok, I'm done" on a big project like that. Of course, before that decision you spent hours and hours dealing with minor details that no-one would have noticed, but you want it to be perfect. And now it is, finally, it is time to export.

So you do export, and it takes hours. But when you watch it after, you realize that something doesn't work quite well, so you change it, and re-export, for hours. And when it's done, you realize you forgot to turn the particles on, because you turned them off to be able to work without slowing the machine, so you have to export again, and it takes hours. And you still find stupid reasons to have to re-export it 3 or 4 times until it is completely done.

And then you watch it, and like it. But the day after, while watching it, you realize that this sound effect could have been placed one or two frames after, but for the first time you're thinking "ah, f**k it.", and you are able to watch it without being annoyed by a thing that no-one on earth would ever notice. That's the moment I like the most. Because every project could always be better, could always have a last change of one or two frames, which of course wouldn't be the last, but you have to find the courage to say "no more."

No more. Working on that project was awesome, and watching it is awesome. It is going to be a good video to show my still very new skill, and at the same time an awesome souvenir from my time here; the special effect class and time spent playing volleyball with friends.

I am really glad because I have been able to do everything I planed to for that final project, and even more. I was afraid it might be hard, and it definitely was at some moments, but with hours of work every problem is solvable (and some of them with the help of Ben Bays).

It was very interesting to work on something step by step, in a way it was different from the big editing projects I was used to, because those are generally divided in very different steps, while here almost every steps needs creation, and every time something is created, you feel great, because you are able to think "I created this from nothing, I am a God", and add it to the rest. And while by itself it can be a cool little effect, when it is included to the whole project, it makes that last one look awesome.

But enough talking, here it comes:


Volleyball - The Duel from Vincent Desgrippes on Vimeo.