I didn't win a spot on the animation category of the Neo Geo Jam, but It was a wonderful time nonetheless!

You can view the winners here HERE!, there's a link to every submission at the bottom of that post.

This was my first Animation Jam and I feel like I learned alot. One of the biggest take away was that I needed to budget my time better, even though im preparing college this year, I do believe it could've been polished more within the time I had. I Also learned alot about how blenders cameras work. I've changed my view on the software from "3D Primarily with a 2D spinoff mode" to "2D Drawings placed in a 3D space, all on the same plane". I believe looking at it like that will help me realise what I can and cant get away with on my potato PC, hopefuly I can upgrade soon.

Writing was a challenge as I wanted to write something funny but I had no Neo Geo puns up my sleeve. In the end I decided to pay homage to the WikiGo "How to survive a bear attack" video as I had a weird nostalgia for it. Thankfully, the "decent" script was saved by the superb voice acting of Ryan Mc Grath. Despite not being professional and only doing it for the craic, we had a fantastic time working together and he put alot of care into his voice work. Unfortunately I guffed up the final audio mix but I've learned to take that more into considration for my next animation.

Ryan can be found @son_of_waluigi on instagram.

The music was provided by My New Soundtrack and Mars Bars . In both cases, they make fantastic remixes of video-game tunes and luckily had two Neo Geo remixes that fitted my animation.They were both very welcoming when I asked for permission to use their tracks. Go check them out if you want to listen to something awesome!

The final animation can be viewed here.

If you want to know what Im working on next, not only do I have a few original sketch ideas jotted down, I'm also working on Furzio's EZA reanimated. Feel free to join in as applications are still open, cant wait to show you all what im cooking.

Look after yourselves, you're worth more than you think.

Shan.