This is a film I made for my high school film festival. As someone who feels like they're pretty much the only person who knows how to create special effects and use CGI in the whole school (my public school has a little over 5,000 students), and believe me I've gotta be the only one cause I've started the animation club in hopes of finding more people who want to work on animations with other people (which has been a success in the sense that I've found people who like art but I've turned the club into more of an education program where I teach people how to create SFx and animations, sadly no one's gotten good enough to trust themselves to embark on creating a full short film but we have fun during the club) and I'm part of the film program at the school which being the only SFx person there, I'm everyone's go to guy for SFx. But moving on to what this film means to me, my main goal was to create a world that pushed the meaning of a "student film" by showing that even students are capable of creating nearly Hollywood levels of SFx (at smaller quantities though because we don't have teams of 100s of artist's, that's why the short film platform is great for us). I hope that this will inspire other high school students to try using CGI in their films. Although, in my opinion the story lacks definition (I'm not very good at story writing but I'm capable) and our school was closed during filming which meant that I had to do a couple of shots with CG people instead of real people (which when you watch it you can tell pretty clearly but even professionals struggle with creating photorealistic humans).

But ultimately, using some snippets of the best shots to show to a broader audience of high school and college students that anyone is capable of creating SFx can be super inspiring and I hope that this will result in more people like me to focus on becoming an animator as a career.