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WHILST ON MY EXCHANGE ABROAD TO GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY IN BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, I COMPLETED A MODULE ON CREATING MEDIA/ILLUSTRATIONS SUITABLE FOR ANIMATION. IT COVERED HOW TO USE AFTEREFFECTS AND PHOTOSHOP EFFECTIVELY TO CREATE A SHORT ANIMATION. MY SMALL PROJECT WAS A SMALL COMEDIC ANIMATION ABOUT A STUDENT AND ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVEL VIA A TIME TRAVEL SPOON THAT HIS FLATE MATE HAD CREATED AND LEFT IN THE FLAT.  DURING MY RESEARCH I NOTICED A LACK OF COMEDIC APPROACHES TO TIME TRAVEL. SO I DECIDED I WOULD MOCK THE TYPICAL TIME TRAVEL STORY BY CUTTING OUT THE MAJORITY OF THE 'EPIC' JOURNEY THE TIME TRAVELLING STUDENT HAD, FOCUSING INSTEAD ON THE STUDENT COMING BACK FROM HIS EPIC TRAVELS AND HAVING HIM MUNDANELY STUMBLE BACK INTO HIS FLAT AS AN OLD MAN AND SIT DOWN, GRUMBLING TO FINISH HIS SOUP, STILL ANGRY AT HIS FLATMATE. I KEPT MY ANIMATION SIMPLE SO IT WOULD BE EASIER TO ANIMATE LATER ON.

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