Captain America... F@*% yeah!
It's rather heartening when my not-at-all-professional hobby that I mainly do for kicks ends up affording me unexpected gratuities. For example, I spent nearly five total hours last weekend and another four total hours this weekend grinding away at some frame by frame animation for a nifty little action scene Dr. Holocaust and I have been working on, and in gratitude (for the work thus far, which is maybe 30-35% of the total project, I might add), Doc took me to see Captain America. (More on that in a second).
It just felt good. Maybe it speaks to the twenty year video game player vet in me to have something that took a lot of work (and frankly a few spouts of frustration here and there... rotoscoping is a BITCH) produce immediate and undeniable gratification. (ie a night at the movies, which is immediately stimulating and rewarding, versus say... a paycheck, something that has to be considered and possibly used for other things) I don't know. What I do know, however, is that as good as it felt, my philosophy and principles on doing hobby level video editing/visual effect work MUST remain the same. There may come a day when I decide that I want to make it more then a hobby, but until then it IS just a hobby, and I must appreciate it for that... and nothing else.
As for the movie...
Yeah... pretty much what Bob said.
It just felt good. Maybe it speaks to the twenty year video game player vet in me to have something that took a lot of work (and frankly a few spouts of frustration here and there... rotoscoping is a BITCH) produce immediate and undeniable gratification. (ie a night at the movies, which is immediately stimulating and rewarding, versus say... a paycheck, something that has to be considered and possibly used for other things) I don't know. What I do know, however, is that as good as it felt, my philosophy and principles on doing hobby level video editing/visual effect work MUST remain the same. There may come a day when I decide that I want to make it more then a hobby, but until then it IS just a hobby, and I must appreciate it for that... and nothing else.
As for the movie...
Yeah... pretty much what Bob said.