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Advice for Students | Temple of the Seven Golden Camels

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Hey Mr. Kennedy. I am speechless. Honestly, as I was going through my blogs, I was thinking of asking you to maybe do a post of advice to people going into school to do their "final film" or something similar (here, we have only one year where we do an independent short). This advice is amazing, and greatly appreciated - it's definitely going above my desk. So many people believe that in order to have a "good" student film it has to be beautiful and epic, while few know what you stress, simplicity and relatability is what makes a short student film successful. Thanks for this post, I'll put a link to it on my blog. Hope all is well. -R. Randeep - thanks for letting me know it's helpful...I wasn't sure so I'm really glad it made sense! I don't know, Mark--I think you put it all perfectly(really). Great post! It makes total sense. You really express yourself well, mister. Exactly. As Jenny said, it's great reading your insights as they're all expressed so thoroughly and clearly. Keep it

As a new school year starts, animation students across the world are returning to start work and make another personal film. I tried to write a post last year and now I am trying again to give some advice to help in this endeavor. (Having gone to CalArts, I can only speak to what applies there. Some of my advice is going to fly in the face of what other schools are actually requiring you to do, so disregard my advice when it conflicts with the cirucullum of your school). It's a daunting task to be responsible for creating and executing your own film. There are few limitations and very…

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