Beyond Imagination >>>My NYU Senior Thesis<<<

Here's the final video of my senior thesis at NYU.

I passed my thesis.....Finally Over...

Today i passed my thesis. What a relief!!!!

Actually, to be honest, i was very nervous. i didn't know what they might ask me, or how they would react. When Justin went before me, i noticed panelists' reactions toward him, and noticed they are not overwhelmed. They were nice, calm, and were not freaked out for something they didn't like. Then, i realized that maybe it won't be that bad, and i hoped for the best.

Then came my turn, and i introduced myself w/ my thesis statement, followed by my thesis video. After watching my project for 3 times, the very first comment i heard was from Patricia when she said " Well done Anita, very nice job". Then i figured, Oh well Anita maybe it's not going to be so bad. As i said in my previous post, i was a little worried about my color correction but i guess it was alright.

I think because i had shown my work to Patricia and Myles a lot of times before, they didn't have anything major to say.

I just had a comment from Myles about shadows, which he and i had already discussed and i was telling him that i'm having some issues w/ tracking the shadows to the little girl.

And Patricia said same thing about my saturation of background and foreground, which again we had already discussed, and i worked on that after our meeting. Because of the time short, i wasn't able to follow all of her comments. She had suggested during our meeting to keep the action going on in every shot, and that i fixed by editing out my shots. Regardless of these minor issues, Patricia and Myles loved my piece. After they said this like 3 or 4 times, i was relaxed a bit, and my hands stopped shaking.

Then i looked at David, to hear his comments. I was a little worried about his comments, because he had never seen my work since last semester, and even then i had shown him only my storyboard.

But, it turned out to be that David liked my thesis a lot as well. Seeing him smiling at me, made me relax a little, and i was ready to listen to his comments. He loved my beginning shot, and he absolutely adored the camera movement from top to bottom, and he liked the sky there as well. Only comments he made was that sky was jumping in each shot after that. ( it's because i intented to do that way. I thought if paint strokes would flicker a little, it will show as if paint is being painted on, and each time it flickers, it develops a differnt stroke ). But i didn't say anything because it might turn against me, so i kept my mouth shut. But he said it's not a bad point, but it's just something that i would be considered about. Another comment he made was about the movement of the trees, and flowers. He loved the way i moved them, but he suggested it would be better to keep that movement on for a while. ( i tried doing that in Maya by adding turbulence, but i was having some issues. it took me 3 nights to render only 200 frames, and after all that when i looked at those frames in After Effects, trees were still. so without wasting any more time, i added turbulence in after effects. it looked a little fake, but it added movements to the trees, which i wanted). And another comment was about the end part. That actually is my fault because i edited out some shots, and after that my shots got a little shorter, and music was still going on. so i left an empty image of sky. He suggested it would be better to fade out everything along w/ music as soon as my animation was done. but because i knew it's my fault, i kept my mouth shut again.

overall, i think my presentation was really good. it wasn't as long as i expected to be. everyone said at least 3 or 4 times that they loved my piece, so i thought it's going to be alright.
And that it was.

i'm so happy it's over. and i'm really proud of myself for finishing what i started.

Thesis Panel ---->>>Tomorrow May 9th<<<----

Tomorrow is my thesis panel. I will go in the evening session, and my turn is second. It's good that i'm going second because i hate to go in middle, or at last. By the time my turn comes, i'm tired of biting my finger nails, my cold shaky hands, and my heart skipping every other beat.

But i'm thinking of going to the morning session as well, just to see how it goes. I just want to see what happens there, what kind of questions they ask, and what is it that i should get myself ready for so when i go in my own session, things don't come as surprise to me. God knows why i'm so nervous. I'm a bit worried about my color correction. I'm not very good at it, but i tried to do my best. All week long, i was worried about this day, and now that finally i'm about to be face to face with panel, i think it's going to be fine. I just want to be done with it, so this fear that i'm holding on to myself all day long will vanish once for all.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and hoping for good results. As my mom says, "rest is all up to God".

Final Thesis Production Book

Here's a link to the final production book of my thesis. i had to fix some things in previous post of my book, and i fixed those in this one. Hopefully, now everything will be fine.

Final Thesis - Beyond Imagination

Here's the final quicktime of my thesis - Beyond Imagination. I am happy with what i have so far. Could've done a little better job if had enough time to tweak everything that i wanted to after listening to other faculty members but no regrets. All that i did so far is good. I'm really glad because i accomplished what i wanted to do for my thesis.

Thesis Delivered

Today, May 30th, I delivered my thesis. Sound so easy right? But no, it wasn’t as easy as I thought. It was one of the most horrible day of my life.

It’s easier said than done. I been saying so far that things went so smooth and easy in this production process for my thesis but today I was proved wrong. I decided to wake up early today so I could give my books to be bound at kinkos, and then I’ll go to labs to burn video and data dvd. I woke up late, and went to kinkos at around 11 am, just to hear that their machines were down, and they were working on it. That came as a big shock to my heart, and I felt as if my heart skipped a beat. I thought I was going to kill someone right there but it wasn’t their fault that I left things for last minute. They still took my papers, and assured that I’ll get my books as soon as possible once machines were running. They took my name and number to call me when it’s done. I came to labs to burn my dvds, and that was done in no time. I waited for phone call from kinkos but nothing happened. I couldn’t wait, so I went there, and found out that they were done w/ 3 of my books, and were working on 4th one. A guy from kinkos came over to me, and said they couldn’t bound the 4th one because machines went down again. I was almost about to cry because it was already 3 o’clock, and books were due at 4 pm. But, things were not that bad because he said those 3 books were free of cost. That brought a little smile on my face. I grabbed my 3 books, and ran to NYU to deliver what I had so far. I delivered my 3 books, along with video and data dvd, and took my 4th book to village copier right behind NYU building. I gave it to a lady, and asked her to do it as soon as possible because I needed it in 5 minutes. She was nice, and she bound my book in no time. Once I got that, I paid for that, and I ran back to NYU to deliver that. FINALLY, I was relaxed. When I came out of the office, I closed the door behind me, and took a deep breath. What a busy day!!

That was so close. I thought I’ll never make it. I tried to calm myself down but my hands kept on shaking. I never experienced such thing like this in my entire life. Well, I guess that’s what happens when we leave things for last minute. So, from now on, I will never leave things on last minute.

Now that thesis is delivered, I have nothing to do. I’m just waiting for May 9th, when I’ll present my thesis in front of panel, and I will get my grade. God willing, everything will go fine.