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In 2018 when I was a rising seventh grader, for two weeks, I would take the Metro-North train early in the morning, and ride the subway from Grand Central all the way to the Financial District of Manhattan to attend the New York Film Academy's 3D animation course. Prior to this course, I was only familiar with creating 2D animation, so when I went to an information session with my father early in the year and learned that NYFA offered a course to teach 3D animation, I immediately begged my father to take this course. I loved movies like Disney's WALL-E and Inside Out, and I thought if I learned 3D animation, one day I might make a Disney blockbuster myself! Though the commute was terrifying for a small 5'2" child amongst 6-foot business people, I was excited to walk through those doors and learn about the inner workings of 3D animation.
A week into the course my classmates and I were assigned to make a one-to-two-minute "film" of anything we wanted. At the time, I was extremely obsessed with rockets and birds and I wanted to make a film with the premise around those two subjects. I drafted a story and here's what I went with: "One day, an eagle flies around a launch site. It lands and notices a large rocket about to take off! It grabs a bucket of popcorn and excitedly waits for the rocket to launch. The rocket launches but it malfunctions in mid-air! It starts falling and falling until at the last second, the engine starts up again and takes off, blowing a lot of black carbon towards the eagle. The eagle, with eyes red and covered in soot, passes out from shock". With only five days to create the entire film, I started storyboarding, modeling, and creating textures.
(Eagle Model)
(Eagle Texture)
(Eagle Texture - SMOKED)
(Launch Site Ground Model)
(Launch Site Ground Texture)
(Rocket Model)
(Rocket Texture)
(Control Tower Model)
(Control Tower Texture)
(Popcorn Bucket Model)
(Popcorn Texture)
(Popcorn Bucket Texture)
After I had finished exporting my animation, I had to give my film a title. If this were in the future, an older version of me would've named it "The Unfortunate Eagle" or "The Rocket", but the rising-seventh-grader version of me thought of the genius name "BIRDO".
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