My final reel for Introduction to Animation at art academy 2009. We had about 3 weeks to really work on it, By the 2nd week i was only able to get the concept down, and 5 % of the key frames done. No in betweens nothing. so i was basicaly 195% behind. I then prepared my mind and body for the hellish weekend i had to endure. SInce i presented this storyboard to the class, i promised myself its either all or nothing. After performing rituals with charcoal face paint to the animation gods, i got through the weekend. 5 total hours of sleep in 4 days and 4 nights. I almost gave in and passed out about 100 times. I thought I may have bitten off more then i can chew. The minimum requirment was something like 20 seconds of animation. Something simple that demonstrates we've learned the basic principles of animation. But like the song goes, I live die and bleed for the fantasy. Thanks to my two bestest friends, Kao and Steven Silva who helped me with the tedious work of capturing frames on the camera, scanning, and organizing…Without them, i would not have been able to get the job done when i did. The day it was due, i missed everyone's presenation. I spent that whole time editing, and just as class was ending, and everyone had left but the teacher. I sat my sleepy hallucinating ass down, and presented my work to the teacher. He liked it a lot =) Unfortunately, the following semsester i switched out of 2d animation to concept art, as i felt, i wanted to improve my illustration abilities since i learned that, animation will send me to an early grave. I havn't forgotten about 2d animation though, and am hoping to do more animations in the future. O and all the voices and sounds were done by me as well. Music is by 30 seconds to mars "the fantasy" and also by Owl City "fireflies"