I'm heading off to Vancouver next week for the Skills Canada national animation competition, so in a week I'll have another short little animation to show from that. Also, the next NATA collab is going to start soon, and it's a walk cycle collab this time, so that'll be fun.
As for NATA, I recently submitted a rather dark movie called The Monster is Me, and I feel a little guilty about how some people interpreted it. It's not supposed to glorify suicide, and I feel bad knowing that that's what some got out of it. I was intending to have two separate conclusions to the video: the darker, purple-coloured version, where yes, the main character dies, but then also the orange version, where the character fights back the monsters and reaches some sort of "better place" by doing that. The purple was supposed to show the ineffectiveness of the non-solution. I'm kicking myself because it looks like suicide was portrayed as the means to that end, especially with the rising up bit, but I assure you it wasn't intended to be that way. I might re-cut the ending later to try to make that clearer.
To be honest, I kind of regret making the video since I don't really have anyone to blame but myself for all that. I've maybe made visual metaphors too much and this time it backfired. So, I'm honestly sorry about that.
Dave
WritingThot
I wouldn't beat yourself up about it. I've learned that sometimes, people get what they want to out of something without getting the true meaning so that they have something to talk about or create a little controversy. I honestly did not get that you were glorifying suicide.
I know a lot about chronic depression, because my mother and brother were diagnosed with it. You portrayed the symptoms and emotions dead on. In my opinion, it would be a shame to change any bit of a really good video that shows depression as it really is, and not what people get from teenage drama shows. Good luck bro, and I look forward to your future work!
Pahgawk (Updated )
Thanks. I'm glad that's what you got out of it because that's more what I was aiming for. I suppose the whole animation was more of a way to vent feelings than anything else. But either way I think I need to at least rearrange the ending, maybe once NATA is over and I can look over the video again objectively.