Others did their presentations this week. Personally I wasn’t too interested in most of them because very few of them addressed the idea to me that they could possibly change (however small the chance) the industry they were talking about.
For example, take Caitlin’s presentation where she talked about the state of the animation industry. I didn’t really see her mentioning anything other than Disney and YouTube Animators in the presentation. I feel she failed the flesh out her argument to the industry. She fixated on Disney as oppose to using it as an example to an end. I could pick out a few studios in the presentation that didn’t fit her mold (I didn’t bring this up in the lecture because I didn’t want to deconstruct her whole argument in front of her which would have been cruel and confronting). Laika for instance are one of the last stop motion animation studios (this is the one I thought of during the presentation), Pixar is another huge studio and Studio Trigger has done some excellent work that also breaks Caitlin’s mold which funnily enough falls into the Bechdel Test.
I enjoyed Aidin’s idea or an AR theater experience last week. The concept of that, however slim the chance of it actually changing the game/industry, was an interesting one.
I hope the guy that was sick in his presentation is doing well.
I look forward to seeing you when I start work on my Major project in the future.