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The artist, Gregg Brown's thoughts throughout our animation journey....

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//**What a TEAM**//
This production has given me soooo many gifts. The students at Sacre Coeur are simply a joy to be working with. The girls are courteous toward each other which is a quality I never tire of. They are a real credit to the staff and parents.

I wished to update this page weekly, but to tell you the truth when I drive away from the school I'm beat... the enthusiasm from the young animators is out of this world. One thing among many they have helped me learn is the importance of being organized! After a few weeks I discovered that these industrious beings like to have everything ready to create. The girls awesome art teacher Susan McDonald helped me to appreciate the giving of instructions one - step - at a time. Discovered the importance of designing specific actions to go with specific frames when giving out the story board shots to film. This may seem an obvious step to take however I seem to have gotten into a habit of seeing the action in my minds eye at 12 frames per second and expect everyone else should be able to do the same, hahahaha. It was unreasonable for these new animators to break down the amount of blinks a character would blink depending how they were feeling per second.
 * //The growth of Gregg//**

//**The growth of the Girls**// This production has become a magical experience for me, and I hope everyone involved. You know, as an animator we get to watch our creations slowly evolve. As a teacher sometimes it can be an ever slower process to see a student transform. I would like to say that my weeks with the Class 5 Sacre Coeur young animators, I have witnessed a quickening effect... a real shift in the people they are. Their inner strength (and these are purely my own observations) they have developed seems to be directly linked to the unfortunate task of re-shooting a 1-6 second shot. The shot could have taken them up to 90 minutes of discussion... puppet manipulation and carefully tip-toeing around the camera and tripod. Then "fee-fi-foe", Gregg the all seeing animator looms over the set and asks them (on his knees... begging usually) to re-shoot it due to a range of commonly overlooked mistakes. Weeks passed and now instead of pleading to let the shot pass through into becoming a fully grown Quicktime file, I now see a small sigh... then back to the production the industrious hands, and resilient hearts return.

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