Animation Video+ statement

https://youtu.be/79VVSp6kuIw

Ok, it's true that I bit off more than I could chew with this one... there were a lot of ideas swirling around during the making of the video and it became a bit of a mess, which really stunted its progress. I went into it with the intention to make something completely confusing, visceral, and experimental. I intended for the final product to be speaking on how the internet and our consumption habits have been unhealthy, making it often difficult not to get at least a whiff of the festering enshittification that compounds in wasted time, information bombardment, social isolation and shortened attention spans. It's a pessimistic outlook for sure, but one I'm passionate about as an internet user. Though it is a pretty rich and broad conversation, I understand it is also a bit meta and in some contexts (think dopamine detox) a little overplayed - that said you can make a bunch of funny shit heading in this relevant and omnipresent direction, and I had fun with it too. By the time I started descending into After Effects, I realized that I needed some more solid structure and that it would be a lot more managable for me, with my limited time and knowledge of the software, to make something in a more funny and shitposty direction, which would also keep me sane through the stretches where I was so completely lost with simple stuff like how to even watch what I'd made. I'm happy with the final product and concept, despite some rough edges, and think it does a decent job touching on the ironic side of what I wanted it to bring up, while also in turn having the awareness of itself being part of the slop, and leaning into that. It might be a little too far on the silly side to communicate what I'd hoped, and while I'm critiquing it I also find the pacing to be a little brutal. But I had fun!!! Thank god I'm finally done with it.