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Okay I’m pretty late on this one as the Spring 2018 season is about 4/7ths finished by this point, and I could be giving excuses, or I could just get to the review. I’ll opt for the latter, so here we go for first impressions of Spring 2018, under a read more because this season is pretty massive, and I realized the first one should probably also be under a read more.

3D Kanojo (3D Girlfriend): The main character is a super otaku in high school with only one other friend who’s also an otaku dude. After being late one day he gets stuck cleaning the pool with another late student, who happens to be female. Judging her on her appearance and tardy frequency, he assumes she’s not going to come help clean. Surprise surprise, she shows up and is earnest in her work cleaning, and they end up getting along. I like the female lead, but I hate the main guy and also the concept of the show in general so that’s a no watch.

Aikatsu Friends: There’s a lot of Aikatsu and I’ve never planned on watching any of it as of this point.

Akkun to Kanojo (Akkun and His Girlfriend): A guy who’s a jerk to his girlfriend, but actually loves her very much and can’t express it well. The show is a short about a guy who’s a tsundere, but it’s pretty painful to watch for even a few minutes, especially since I’m not a big fan of the tsundere archetype in the first place.

Alice or Alice: Siscon Niisan to Futago no Imouto (Alice or Alice: The Siscon Brother and His Two Sisters): Well the title of this show is one of the largest red flags I’ve seen in a while, and it’s just about as bad as what can be expected from the title. From watching one episode it seems like the sisters are more into their brother than the other way around but that’s still pretty bad the way the show portrays any of the characters.

Amai Choubatsu: Watashi wa Kanshu Senyou Pet (Sweet Punishment: I’m the Pet of the Guards): This is pretty much a hentai that just barely sneaked by without the hentai tag. Don’t.

Amanchu! Advance: It looks pretty cool like the first season, but I have that on my plan to watch so I can’t say or watch anything about the second season.

Beyblade Burst Chouzetsu: I generally preferred playing with Beyblade toys or games rather than watching the anime is most cases, and this is the third season of Burst, so there’s really nothing I have to say on this one. Why are there so many sequel seasons at the beginning of the alphabet this year?

Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu HAPPY KISS! (Cute High Earth Defense Club HAPPY KISS!): I was not a fan of this for the first episode of the first season, so I’m definitely not watching the second season of it.

Boku no Hero Academia 3 (My Hero Academia 3): Finally, a second (third) season that I’m actually watching and can talk about with knowledge. While the first episode was kind of pointless and more of a recap of the previous seasons, two of my favorite characters will be introduced in this season, so I’m looking forward to it.

Butlers ~Chitose Momotose Monogatari~ (Butlers x Battlers): I almost understood what was going on in this show, and then everything, including the genre, changed. Then I look up the description of the show and got even more confused, because there’s like butlers who travel through time and fight things, which wasn’t indicated at all through the first episode. I’d only suggest this for people who could be oddly curious as to what the heck will happen in the show.

Caligula: Our main character here is a psychology geek, but besides annoying his friends every so often with attempted psychology lectures, lives a normal high school life. That is, until he goes into his high school graduation ceremony and the speakers start giving entrance ceremony speeches. After that people start turning into monsters and attacking the people who are still normal. After fleeing the school, we run into a guy with a black spike running through him and a black arm holding a black gun. I really liked the character designs from the game this is based on, which I never got to play, so I’ll be watching it to see how it goes. I’m also a fan of the importance the music seems to play in the show, so bonus points there.

Captain Tsubasa (2018): Probably like the one from 1983, but in 1080p. It’s an elementary soccer anime, so there’s pretty much no reason that I’d watch it, but it’s probably fine for fans of sports anime or the original.

Cardfight!! Vanguard (2018): Another season of a card game anime. I physically own a deck of CV cards and that’s about the extent of my knowledge of the series.

Comic Girls: After ranking poorly in her magazine, a young mangaka moves to an all-female dorm for mangaka to learn from / with others. Knowing that she has issues writing high school kids despite being in high school herself due to the fact that she has no friends or communication skills, she accepts readily. After meeting her roommate and some neighbors she finds out she’s got a long way to go in the manga business, but is hopeful of the possibility of getting better with the help of her new friends. I’m a fan of many of the content creator anime, and this feels like a moe version of Bakuman., but I think I’ll just put it on hold now for other shows that I’m more interested in for this season.

Cutie Honey Universe: Another reboot of a popular Nagai Go series, I’m not sure how much information I’m supposed to have of the series before watching this iteration of it. The other series, Devilman: Crybaby, seemed much more comprehensive in how the story was told so that someone starting the series from there could understand what was going on. Either way I’m applying the same decision to this as to D:C, watch the original first, and then try this one.

Devils Line: Don’t let the title fool you, this is about vampires. Vampires who get sexually aroused by human blood. The show has the main female plot device and the actual main character is a half-vampire in a police division for fighting vampires. There’s plenty of shows with similar concepts that are better than what I’m feeling from this with the amount of murder and rape alluded to as of ep 1 and the fact that there is a romance tag in the genres.

Dorei-ku The Animation (23 Slaves and Me / Slave Ward): The main object of this show is called an SCM, and what it does is let the users of It engage in duels, with the loser becoming a slave of the winner. The term duel seems to be pretty loose and left up to the users, which is pretty interesting, mostly consisting of some type of game. The show seems pretty edgy with characters being introduced with an into card of their name and them in bondage, plus the whole “slave” thing, and the implied rape scene. Since I pretty much consume any media with characters fighting each other through games, no matter how edgy (No Game No Life, Rengoku Deadroll, etc.) I will be watching this, and I’m pretty sure it’ll be interesting, if nothing else.

Duel Masters!: It’s a children’s card game anime, there’s a million of them and I have no clue what season of this it’s supposed to be. It could be the first or the fiftieth, and I would be none, the wiser, not that I care.

Fullmetal Panic! Invisible Victory: My friends all say FMP is good, so I’ll watch it… eventually. This is a sequel, so not much I can do to change people’s opinions on watching this.

Fumikiri Jikan (Railroad Crossing Time): It’s a short about conversations that people have while waiting at the crossroad for trains to pass. It looks like just a series of episodic conversations that are only slightly absurd from the description and the first episode, so you’re not losing much by trying it out.

Future Card Buddyfight X: All-Star Fight: I feel like I’m repeating myself a lot at this point, but there are so many children’s card game anime airing this season. And this one is coming in as the fifth season, so my dig at Duel Masters! Is justified as I write these all in alphabetical order.

Gegege no Kitarou (2018): A youkai child who goes around helping humans not be annihilated by other evil youkai. This is a reboot for the fiftieth anniversary of the series, and it looks pretty interesting. From the first episode, it’s probably going to be episodic and aimed in the family friendly direction, so anyone can watch it and enjoy.

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu – Die Neue These- Kaikou (The Legend of Galactic Heroes: The New Thesis – Encounter [wow, one of the few times I can use my German and Japanese knowledge at the same time]): There sure are a lot of reboots this season too, and I’ve seen a couple of people with mixed opinions on whether you should watch this or not, whether you’ve seen the original or not, so I decided to skip this one until I make it through the original Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu.

Golden Kamui (Golden Kamuy): A war veteran of the Russo-Japanese war is trying to eke out a living during the Hokkaido Gold Rush, and hears about a hidden Ainu stash of gold with a map etched into the bodies of a bunch of prisoners as tattoos. As he starts his search for the pieces of the map he runs into an Ainu girl, who helps him survive in the wild and collect the map on the condition that she won’t kill anybody for the map. I enjoy the dynamic between the two main characters and the show has a really good balance between comedic wilderness survival sections and brutal combat scenes, so this is near the top of my watchlist.

Gundam Build Divers: I got no clue on how the Gundam Build series fit together, and maybe I never will.

Gurazeni (Money Pitch): It’s a major league baseball anime where the main character is a left-handed relief pitcher, who enjoys studying the salaries of other players in the league. The show description says that player’s performance determines their salaries, but as far as I know, that’s just how it works in America, and I don’t know if it’s a different system in Japan, or if the show just gets really focused on the money aspect of it.

High School DxD HERO: BOOOOOOSTO! (I’ve watched literally no DXD). This is the fourth season, and the studio animating the show changed for this season, from TNK to Passione, a newish studio that I’ve enjoyed how all their shows looked, if not the shows themselves.

Hinamatsuri: After a tough day of yakuza work, the main heroine drops onto the yakuza man’s head in metallic egg thing. A day later the yakuza releases her and she starts going on a psychokinetic rampage and breaking a bunch of valuable vases. After the yakuza generously decides to accept this girl into his house until further notice they just try to live together in as peacefully as possible. It’s full of a lot of goofy scenes played completely straight, which is pretty funny. The artstyle constantly reminds me of Tsuki ga Kirei, which is pretty much the only reason I’m not adding it to my watch immediately list, despite the comedy being right up my alley.

Hisone to Maso-tan (Hisone and Maso): The main character is in the Japanese Self Defense Force’s air force when she gets transferred to an assignment that very few people have been able to qualify for. This assignment involves being eaten by a dragon that can transform into an aircraft and piloting it from inside it’s digestive tract. The artstyle is pretty unique, and I can’t quite pin down a genre to call it, so I’ll say check it out, but I won’t be keeping up with it in season.

Hoozuki no Reitetsu 2: Sono ni (Hozuki’s Coolheadedness 2: Part 2): Have you watched part 1 of season 2? Then you can now watch this.

Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin: You only need to have watched the first Inazuma Eleven to understand what’s going on in this soccer anime. Unfortunately, I don’t even have that fraction of the Inazuma Eleven series watched.

Juushinki Pandora: As humanity continues to make scientific progress, accidents are going to happen. One such incident caused the world to be blanketed by a mysterious energy, that caused most life on earth to start hybridizing with machines. These hybrids then started evolving at a faster rate than humanity’s technological progress, and start destroying humanity. Various mechs are piloted by humans to protect the dwindling lands that can support humanity, and that’s where the main character steps in. A brilliant scientist on the verge of a breakthrough that will bring the mechs built by humanity up to par with the wildlife, or even stronger. While I like how the hybrid wildlife looks, that’s about the only thing I like about the show and don’t care to sit through CG mech fights for that purpose. That’s what Horizon Zero Dawn is for.

Kakurio no Yadomeshi: The main character of this show has grown up being able to see youkai, and enjoys feeding them to prevent them from harming other humans. One day a youkai shows up and brings her to an inn in the youkai world, telling her that her grandfather owes him a large debt, with her being the collateral. To this she responds with a swift “No way” and decides to work off her grandfather’s debts instead. To this end she tries to find someplace in the inn where she can help, and by the end of the episode finds a café in the yard that’s about to be closed down, so she decides to work with one of the kitsune employees to reopen the café so she can start paying off those debts. Not my cup of tea so I’ll be passing on this one.

Koneko no Chii: Ponponra Daibouken 2 (Chi’s Sweet Adventure 2): CG kittens doing CG kitten things I would assume from what I know about the series, but it’s the second season, so, even more kitten things.

Kiratto Pri☆chan: With a massively popular system for a variety of user created shows and capabilities to upload from any device, the Pri☆chan system can let anybody be a star. The two main characters decide to become an idol duo basically through a challenge, and end up doing well with their debut live show. The CG for the live show is pretty good, but I’m not really a fan of idol shows so I don’t have any plans on further watching this.

Kuroneko Monroe (Monroe the Black Cat): I have not been able to find a source on this one, which is an issue with a lot of the children’s shorts.

Ladyspo (Lady Sports): After getting about 5 minutes in, I had to give up. It was a different still image every 15~30 seconds of women on the toilet while some kind of mascot character talked to them. There is no subbed version of this so I only got the gist from listening myself, but this barely qualifies as animation.

Last Period: Owarinaki Rasen no Monogatari (Last Period: Story of an Endless Spiral): A show of magic-users called Periods fighting monsters called Spirals. Though the guild branch of the main characters suffers from the theft of everything of monetary value, and the main characters are tasked with taking quests to recover enough money to buy back their guild hall. That’s the setting at least, and as revealed later in the show, the show’s just really about making fun of gacha games while (probably) following the plot of the game it’s based off of. I think the roasting of gacha games is an untapped anime market, so I’d recommend this to anyone else who suffers on their own quests for full ☆☆☆☆☆ or UR teams.

Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katori no Nazotoki File (Layton Mystery Detective Agency: Katri’s Case Solving File): An anime about the famous professor Layton’s daughter, solving mysteries, just like her dad. It’s a mystery show for kids, the first episode’s mystery was kinda quick and weak, but the characters are pretty interesting. I can’t think of a detective mystery show that’s come out since Kindaichi R2 finished so this show can be useful for scratching that itch, and later episodes might have more interesting mysteries.

Lostorage conflated WIXOSS: There’s so much WIXOSS and I have no idea how they are ordered, but this definitely isn’t the first season of a show, which may not be obvious to people who don’t know the series. Unlike a lot of the other card game based shows that have way too many seasons for me to understand, I do actually plan on watching this one at some point.

Lupin III: Part V: Part 5?!

Mahou Shoujo Ore (Magial Girl Ore): There’s just… so much going on. The basic premise is a comedic magical girl show, except the transformation is into a buff dude. As of episode 1 it is a series of absurd comedy skits leading up to this reveal, and the show can go literally anywhere from here. Being a fan of absurdist humor is the main reason to watch this show.

Mahou Shoujo Site (Magical Girl Site): And now, the complete opposite, a psychological horror magical girl show. We spend the first half of episode 1 watching the main character get brutally bullied, then she becomes a magical girl through one of the creepiest ways possible, and then accidentally exacts revenge. The show finishes introducing another magical girl who seems to have her schtick down a bit better than the main character. I really like most of the visual aspects of the show, and am a big fan of dark magical girl series in general so this was a no-brainer watch for me.

Major 2nd: It’s a baseball show about a kid who’s father casts a large shadow of baseball greatness on his son. You get to watch the kid play baseball with his team.

Megalo Box: While this show was created for the 50th anniversary of Ashita no Joe, this show is unlike the reboots and alternate series of this season as this show is completely unique and separate from the old show. An underground boxer who makes a living throwing matches who wants to compete for real is given a goal of a countrywide boxing tournament called Megalonia. There are many issues with a nameless man with no citizenship trying to get into such a tournament, but a fight with the number one ranked boxer sparks a fierce desire within the main character. In addition to the show looking amazing, the boxing is also upgraded in the future that the show takes place in, with mechanical boxing gear that increases the offensive and defensive capabilities of each boxer.

Neko Neko Nihonshi 3rd Season (Cat’s Japanese History 3rd Season): Another short this season about cats, but now they’re teaching Japanese history. It’s the third season, so there’s about 12 hours of the show to catch up on if you want to watch this season.

Nil Admirari no Tenbin (The Scales of Nil Admirari): This story is about books which become infested with negative emotions to the point of causing readers to injure themselves. The main character’s brother nearly committed suicide due to one such book, and the experience caused the main character to see these negative emotions in books. Due to this ability she gets scouted for a secret branch of the government that deals with these books. I honestly can’t figure out how to make the show interesting with the way the story is set up now, so I might actually watch more of this to see what happens.

Nobunaga no Shinobi: Anegawa Ishiyama-hen (Ninja Girl & Samurai Master: Anegawa and Ishiyama Arc): The third season of ninja comedy shorts.

Omae wa Mada Gunma wo Shiranai (You Don’t Know Gunma Yet): As the main character is moving to the Gunma prefecture, he texts one of his old classmates that moved there before, telling him about the move. An immediate warning to not to is the response, but as he gets it, the mood on the train suddenly darkens and he can’t get off the train. Overall the show seems like a weird comedy with factoids about the Gunma prefecture, if you want to learn about it for some reason.

Oretacha Youkai Ningen G (We Are Youkai People G): I literally cannot find anything about this show, and the image provided is kinda terrifying to be honest. It seems to be related to the series with the same name minus the G, but they don’t look anything alike. Hopefully I can purge knowledge of this show from my mind after writing this.

Oshiri Tantei (Butt Detective): Another short that I cannot find any traces of online, even though it seems to be something Crunchyroll picked up and was supposed to air sometime this month. I’m just gonna go ahead and say it’s probably a lot of butt puns while vaguely following some mystery.

Persona 5 The Animation: An anime of Persona 5, just like it says in the title. The show seems to follow pretty closely to the game, so this looks like it might be a good way to get the story of the game without a lot of the grinding battles and relationships. It will be 24 episodes, so the entirety of the show is about 10 hours, rather than the game’s 60+, though whether this is a good or bad thing will only be known after the show is well on it’s way.

Piano no Mori (TV): This show is about two pianist children who meet each other in elementary school. One is the son of a prostitute who lives in the forest and plays an abandoned piano he found there, and the other is from a prodigious family who’s had piano lessons since he could reach the keys. I think this show could an interesting watch, except the CG used for the piano scenes is ugly as hell and keeps switching on and off depending on if a character’s fingers were on screen. CG on it’s own is fine, but the constant switching during a singular scene drives me crazy, the same issue I had with Toji no Miko last season.

Puzzle & Dragon: I cannot find subs of this version of the PAD anime, as it is completely different from PAD Cross. Now that I actually play the game it’s based on on occasion, I thought I’d check out the anime based on it.

Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori: A couple of dudes running a tea shop. That’s about it and judging from the first episode I’m going to say it seems like an episodic show focused on relaxing, both for the viewers and the characters. Probably a fine show if you’re okay spending your time watching the staff interacting with each other and learning about their individual traits and how they interact, but it’s not doing anything for me.

Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru (Dances with the Dragons): The story of two bounty hunters in a world of magic and dragons. A human with offensive magic fighting with another humanoid species who fights with a sword and strengthening magic. The show’s visuals are pretty average and the story seems to be of the main characters balancing their personal lives and expenses with their abilities to defeat dragons. I wasn’t feeling like keeping up with it from the first episode, but it doesn’t look like a bad choice to watch.

Shiyan Pin Jiating (Jikken-hin Kazoku / Creature Family Days): Okay so a genius, a dog, a plant, a spider, and a psychic walk into a Chinese restaurant. This isn’t a joke, this is just what happens in the first episode. The main characters are all siblings who are exceptional in some way, the oldest four as being experiments of their parents, and the youngest child who is the genius. The story takes place some time after the parents of this family are arrested for performing illegal human experimentation, and are about the family trying to live the most normal life they can. I like the characters and their mix of supernatural traits, and it’s a pretty cute show overall. It’s a bit shorter than a normal show, but longer than a short, and airs with both Japanese and Chinese audio, so there’s a lot of oddities mixed into the show in many ways.

Shokugeki no Souma: San no Sara – Tootsuki Ressha-hen (Food Wars: Third Plate – Totsuki Train Arc): I still gotta catch up on the third season of this, but I’ll finally be able to see Rindo animated, so that’s great.

Souten no Ken: REGENESIS (Fist of the Blue Sky: REGENESIS): The second season to the prequel to Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), I think?

Steins;Gate 0: The Science Adventure Series will eventually be watched by me, as people keep yelling at me to watch it.

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online: I can’t watch this until I fulfill both conditions of finishing the main SAO series and another project I’m working on, so it might be a while before I get to this. The author for this story is completely different from the main series writer, and I’ve heard that this is a vast improvement.

Tachibanakan to Lie Angle (Love to Lia Angle): After moving from her hometown as a child, the main character returns to a student dorm to start high school. Soon after finding it her dreams of a high class dorm are shattered, but at least there are plenty of other friendly girls living there, and two of them were friends from back when she used to live in her hometown. Other than that, the main premise seems to be related to the residents chilling in various states of undress, so I’m planning on just skipping this short.

Tada-kun wa Koi wo Shinai (Tada Can’t Fall in Love): After saving a foreign girl from the rain by bringing her to his family’s café, the main character learns that she came to Japan and even learned Japanese almost exclusively because of an old samurai anime. That’s all I really remember, and it’s a romance show where none of the characters really resonated with me, so I can’t vouch for it, and my reason to not watch is that I couldn’t find a reason to watch it.

To Be Heroine: A sequel to To Be Hero, which I couldn’t finish, so I couldn’t start this. The art looks pretty good from what I saw when searching for a screenshot.

Tokyo Ghoul:re: I don’t understand the order and relations between the Tokyo Ghoul series, so I’m still stuck somewhere in season 2.

Uchuu Senkan Tiramisu (Space Battleship Tiramisu): The show follows the ace of humanity’s alien defense fleet, one of the youngest men fighting to protect Earth. This age difference causes the main character to not get along well with any of his teammates, and he usually just ends up isolating himself in his mech’s cockpit for some peace and quiet. But things never go as smoothly as he likes, and the show is just watching this poor man struggle to relax in space, which has been pretty funny as of so far.

Uma Musume Pretty Derby (Horse Girls Pretty Derby): A show where we got racehorses, but instead of actual horses they are anime girls. I was somewhat dubious of this as an idea for a show, and watching made me realize how wrong I was to doubt this show. It’s pretty funny and while the main character doesn’t enter a race, one of the other main characters does race, and it looked pretty good. There’s plenty of factors coming together to make this into a promising show from the first episode, like the writing, the animation (90% of the time), and the fact that it’s exactly like an actual sport, but not actually.

Usagi no Matthew (Matthew the Rabbit): It’s a kid’s short, and therefore, nobody has bothered ripping and subbing the show, so I can’t really say anything about it.

Wakaokami wa Shougakusei! (The Inn Mistress is an Elementary Schooler): After her parents die in a traffic accident, the main character moves into an inn run by her grandmother. Then after a few misunderstandings mostly caused by trying to talk to a ghost and real people at the same time, she ends up getting formal training to take over the inn for her grandmother. I’m not particularly interested in where the plot goes and the characters are all kind of annoying, so I’ll be passing on this show.

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (Love is Hard for an Otaku): This is one of the few shows where I’ve read the source material before watching the show so it’ll bias me a bit, but it’s a good rom-com. The main character broke up with her former boyfriend after he learned she was an otaku, and even changed companies because of how ashamed she was, only to find an otaku friend she hadn’t seen since elementary school. They start to date each other because they’re good friends and don’t have to hide their otakuness from each other, and just go through office life balancing work and fun. I relate very strongly with the guy and how he lives his life so I will follow this show to the end of the universe.

Youkai Watch: Shadow Side: Season ??? of Youkai Watch. What else can I say at this point?

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A short film about a middle schooler whose heart literally leaps from his chest over a crush on another boy captivated the world last week, racking up more than 10 million views on YouTube in less than 72 hours. It’s been a wild few days for filmmakers Beth David and Esteban Bravo, who brought the idea from pitch to viral sensation over a span of 18 months. Both believe this sudden success stems from the personal significance of the story to each of the out creators’ lives.

In a Heartbeat resulted from the collaboration of two Catholic school graduates, one a lesbian from Ohio and the other a gay man from Mexico City, who ended up studying at the same Florida digital animation program. “It’s the kind of story we wish we had seen growing up,” says David. “A lot of the underlying feelings of fear and guilt that our main character goes through, it’s a very personal story.”

It’s also a significant amount of ground to cover over four minutes of cartoon video, but rave reviews from around the globe show David and Bravo managed to convey the complex sentiments into a condensed number of frames. Since being posted, as of this writing, the video has had more than 21 million plays. The filmmakers talked to The Advocate about the process of making the micro-masterpiece.

The seed of an idea came in 2015 as the filmmakers prepared thesis pitches while studying digital animation at the Ringling College of Art & Design. The two at that point were still working with another student, Hannah Lee, who came up with idea of a young boy with a crush whose heart literally leaps out of his chest. The filmmaking team presented a pitch, initially involving the boy chasing after a girl he liked, but advisers rejected the concept. Lee set out on her own with a different concept (which turned out fine, by the way) but David and Bravo still saw potential in the uncontrollable heart.

The two suddenly found a new direction to the story with a simple tweak. What if the main character pined for the most popular kid in school — another boy. Suddenly, protagonist Sherwin would feel a yearning he didn’t understand for handsome Jonathan, a boy who offered no promise of reciprocation. This time, the pitch got a green light from advisers.

This angle made the story much more personal to the filmmakers, who mined their own feelings and personal experiences to flesh out Sherwin’s character. “We would open up to each other and talk about what it was like to be LGBT,” Bravo recalls. “There wasn’t any situation for me, thank God, where I would be exposed before I was able to accept being gay even to myself, which is what the main character faces, but I know the terror I would have felt.”

The filmmakers sketched the characters, establishing ages of 13 and 14 for Sherwin and Jonathan, a time in life when crushes grow the most intense, David says. The two would wear uniforms reminiscent of those that filled the classrooms at the Catholic schools Bravo and David attended in their youth. The filmmakers traveled to Mother of Mercy High School in Cincinnati, which David attended, taking pictures to reference while developing the setting. “The front entryway in the film is more or less the front entryway of my high school,” David says.

Bravo says for the school building, the Gothic structure needed to appear especially classic and daunting. “We wanted to school to feel like it came from an older era, to represent a past thinking,” he says. This wouldn’t be a welcoming environment for a gay kid. Bravo didn’t want the film to read like a condemnation of private Catholic schools and never recalled outright homophobia taught in the classroom when he grew up. Rather, he recalls homosexuality being so taboo no one discussed it at all. In a film with no dialogue, the regressive atmosphere would inform Sherwin’s confusion.

With characters and a setting in place, the pair storyboarded the project, earning periodic approval from faculty advisers. They developed beat boards to show the major emotional points of the film. The two completed a rough animatic in May 2016 that first brought the characters into motion.

By the time the film needed a score, David and Bravo knew they had something special on their hands. While Ringling undergrads often work with a group of available composers used to collaborating with student filmmakers, Bravo and David elected to hire a veteran with experience on much larger projects. The two became enamored of the music of Arturo Cardelús, who scored the Netflix series Call Me Francis. David says she contacted the composer in Los Angeles and sent the animatic. “We didn’t think we’d get a hold of him,” David recalls. “No one at Ringling had approached him before, but we got in touch with him and he was excited about the film.” He agreed to take the job.

David and Bravo set up a Kickstarter page to raise the money to hire the composer and a sound designer. If they met a $3,000 goal, they could cover the $2,200 fee for Cardelús with another $800 to pay for a sound designer. In a video for the crowdsourcing effort, they announced a lofty stretch goal of $5,000, which would cover the cost of a live studio ensemble. In less than 30 days, the campaign raised $14,191.

With Cardelús officially hired around December, the two students devoted virtually every waking hour to completing In a Heartbeat, now conscious that at least 104 Kickstarter backers anticipated the final product. The filmmakers and composer sent notes and video back and forth. Bravo says the short doubled in length as it evolved from animatic to fully formed film. “We needed more character moments to humanize the characters,” he says. “We need to give as much time as the film needed to breathe in the right moments.”

Bravo won’t even guess the number of manhours that went into the film, which clocks in at four minutes and five seconds with credits. Ultimately, the students submitted the final film for approval in April. Faculty accepted the thesis, and the film was included in a Best of Ringling showcase for 2017.

David and Bravo graduated from the school in May and now live on opposite coasts. David took a job in Los Angeles at JibJab Bros. Studios, where she works on the children’s show Ask the Storybots. Bravo isn’t sure what his own future holds. As an international worker, he still needs to figure out his visa situation before plotting his future in the United States.

But both filmmakers say In a Heartbeat won’t be their last collaboration. “We enjoyed working on this project and would like to take things further,” David says. And Bravo jokes that surviving the intense filmmaking processes validates their creative synergy. “We lived in the same apartment, went to eat at the same places, worked together on something for a year and a half,” he says, “and we didn’t want to kill each other.”

For a moment right now, they relish the attention heaped on In a Heartbeat. “The two of us do think one of the reasons why a lot of people in the LGBT community are responding and connecting to it is because of our perspective, and that we really draw from a personal place and portray it in a genuine way,” David says.

Bravo relishes that the film has found an audience among gay and straight viewers alike. “For those LGBT people who see it, we just want them to know they are not alone,” Bravo says, “and that other people feel the same way, and we just want people to love themselves for who they are. For people who are not LGBT, hopefully it will help them understand a little better that just as you don’t have control over who you have a crush on, that’s exactly the way somebody else who is LGBT would feel.”

#in a heartbeat #lgbt #animation

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fantasticfourtyfour · 6 years

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Week 4

In class, we talked about the organizational model that we as a group think would be a good way to organize our expo. Each group then took turns explaining why their chosen organization model would be best to work in. My group chose a Flatarchy as we believed that this model would allow everyone to work in their own groups as well as working and communicating with everyone else. This model would allow a sense of order and consistency and allow little confusion as everyone would still communicate with other groups and the lecturers. As a class, we decided on a model. I can’t remember what the model was called but basically, at the start and end of each class we will have a group representative (this doesn’t have to be the same person every week) and they will feedback on their own groups such as ideas, issues, suggestions and feedback. They will then report back to their group what was talked about. This also happens at the end in case something new comes up during class. We ended class with a representative and the representatives got into a group and started finalizing the whole collective’s idea which is now ‘Escapism: Experiences of the Abandoned.’ We talked about what needed to be done by the next class, where the expo space is going to be (next week we will be walking through the space to allocate spaces). I took notes from the meeting –

Later in the week, my group got together to talk about what was talked about during the meeting and developed our idea. We talked about the initial idea which was to have large clothes racks with costumes that people could work through to relive the idea of being lost while in stores whether it was because you weren’t paying attention, your imagination was wild, or you were off exploring as a child. The users would then be able to grab an item of clothing that would represent what they wanted to be as a child and then go and take photos. We decided there were a few holes in this idea sadly, such as providing enough clothes, where we were going to get it all from how we would make it big enough, when then thought maybe material would do the same things with props and costumes they could still use but then when we thought about it we had the same issues. We started to explore more into our idea. We still wanted something that was related to abandoning dreams that you had as a child. We started focusing more on reliving/experiencing their dreams from when they were a child. The idea started developing from maybe having photo cutouts of popular jobs of children with holes for the faces so that people could stick their faces in and take photos. To maybe having a screen where a person walks out in front a screen and the screen changes to a shape of a person which could be a shape of what they wanted to be as a kid, however, we weren’t sure how this would work but we did find some inspiration for it –

Following this idea, we thought we could use a green screen and have people come into the space and stand and pose with a green screen and have a screen we where are able to see live a background of the user’s choice that corresponds with a childhood dream. I created a storyboard which explains this idea and goes towards our idea pitch. We think this would be best in the gallery.

“Our idea is that the users/guests will be able to walk into a space and onto a green screen where the user will be able to choose an image for their background that will allow them to be able to experience and pose in front of the green screen which digitally we will be able to alter to make it look like they are in their childhood dream. We are hoping to be able to view the user and have the background live and a photo will be taken and uploaded somewhere such as Instagram or Facebook.”

Potential Dangers -

- Possible wires which people may trip over

- Possible bright flash of light from the camera

My Skills/ What I can bring to the team -

- I study design

My thought is that so that we are efficient on the day, we have a selection of images already chosen so that we don’t have to spend ages finding an image for people to chose from.

To get an idea of what we may need I did some research into what people may wanted to be when they were kids/growing up. According to https://www.thebalancecareers.com/top-kids-dream-jobs-2062280, the top jobs for kids were –

- Dancer/Choreographer e.g. ballerinas

- Actor

- Musician

- Teacher

- Scientist

- Athlete

- Firefighter

- Detective

- Writer

- Police Officer

- Astronaut

- Pilot

- Veterinarians

- Lawyer

- Doctor/ Nurse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrBmifzYfNg

The got kids to describe what they wanted to be when they grew to an illustrator. The kids wanted to be –

“This is what I want to be when I grow up”

- Pokemon trainer and catch potatoes

- Nurse (turned into a princess nurse)

- Carpenter (turned into a scuba diving carpenter)

- Artist

- Rapper

(I highly recommend watching this video it is very cute and funny).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7NSec5NOYc

Dream explanation according to kids –

- Something that happens to everyone at least once unless you are a newborn baby

- They happen at night, they are a good way to fill up time - You feel that it is actually happening

- Kinda like sleepwalking but you’re awake and make stories in your head

- Boys probably have more violent dreams whereas girls probably have ballerina dreams

- Adults dream about the next day

- It is something you are thinking about

- Some a good and some are bad

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/663xs5/what_was_your_dream_job_when_you_were_a_child_and/

According to Reddit people as kids wanted to be –

- Garbageman (but as an adult became Forensics Scientist)

- Doctor (but as an adult graduated from medical school)

- Doctor too (but as an adult went to law school)

- Mechanic (as an adult has been a mechanic for over 10 years like his grandfather)

- Race car driver (but as an adult became an accountant) - Accountant (as an adult became an accountant)

- Actor (is unemployed so he guesses he got to be what he wanted)

- A truck and a seagull (not sure what they ended up becoming…)

- Pizza guy (but as an adult became a design engineer but was a pizza guy as a teen)

- Astronaut ((but as an adult did a PhD thesis in astronomy)

- Princess (but as an adult became an Economic Development)

- Princess as well (his explanation was - I wanted to be a princess too as a kid. I'm a dude and it wasn't a gender identity thing, just seemed like an easy life. Live in an enchanted forest with animals and dancing, followed by living in an expensive luxury castle with more dancing).

Dream Definition -

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dream

noun

1.a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep."I had a recurrent dream about falling from great heights" synonyms: fantasy, nightmare

2.a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal."I fulfilled a childhood dream when I became champion" synonyms: ambition, aspiration, hope

verb

1.experience dreams during sleep."I dreamed about her last night"

2.indulge in daydreams or fantasies about something greatly desired." she had dreamed of a trip to America" synonyms: fantasize about, daydream about

Greenscreen Research -

https://www.breezesys.com/DSLRRemotePro/help/index.html?green_screen_shooting.htm

http://www.greenscreenuk.co.uk/portfolio/meerkat-cinema/

http://redframeblog.com/tag/live-green-screen-video/

Tutorials –

- https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-broadcast-live-with-a-green-screen/

- https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-do-green-screen-video-in-imovie-and-adobe-premiere/

- http://telestreamblog.telestream.net/2018/02/live-green-screen-work-ideal-world-vs-real-world/

Inspiration -

- http://www.greenscreenuk.co.uk/

youtube

- https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/9/16850280/daniel-rozin-interactive-art-interview-video-nespresso-last-chance-to-shine

- https://www.facebook.com/mashable/videos/this-artwork-responds-to-movement/10156318848544705/

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The Man behind June Lake Brewing... and of course, Amazing Beer!

June Lake, CA in all its glory

Long ago, nearly all of the Sierra Nevada mountain range was home to mining towns. On the flip side, June Lake attracted a different sort of prospector. It appealed to fishermen, hikers and hunters for its abundance of wildlife and scenery. As you pull onto the June Lake loop, you are immediately in awe at the beauty of this place. Continuing the drive up to town, the lake sits on the right side of the road. Its deep blue color sparkles like diamonds in the sunlight. Nearly surrounded by huge magnificent peaks, it makes sense that Justin and Sarah, founders of June Lake Brewing, were emotionally called to this place.

Pulling off the main highway, we arrive at the old storage warehouse that is now converted into a brewery. The massive garage doors raise up, inviting you to come inside. Sitting down with Justin, I immediately sense his intensity. He orders a sample of beers for me to try and quickly asks me what kind of information I need for my article. Little did I know it would be a journey through a person’s life that most talk about doing but would be too afraid to follow.

Where it all began

Raised in southern California in the town of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Justin fell in love with brewing beer at a young age. He enjoyed Newcastle but since he was under-age, he instead learned how to brew beer so he could enjoy it himself. Years later that skill would be expanded upon but more on that in a bit. The next question that I asked was how did he end up in June Lake? This is when the Alice-tumbling-down-the-rabbit-hole feeling took over and the story began.

The Story Gets Interesting

Taught at five years old how to surf, Justin was exposed to downhill skateboarding when there were no waves to surf. He fell in love with skating down massive hills, but at fifteen years old his friend was hurt so badly he ended up in the emergency room. Understanding the direction Justin was going and that he would probably end up in the hospital at some point, his buddy asked him if he’d ever heard of snowboarding. His friend described it as a ton safer and falling is less disastrous (some may argue that point.) Intrigued by this, Justin started checking out this ‘snowboarding’ and found out his uncle was the head of maintenance at Bear Mountain in Southern California. So, he decided to head up there and check it out. That was it! He had fallen in love to the point where it became his passion. In the summer, he would frame houses to pay for gas to go snowboarding in the winter. After a few years of doing this, Justin finally made the permanent move up to Bear Mountain. He landed a supervisory repair shop job and through travel with a workmate was soon introduced to June Lake. It felt like the Switzerland of California and at the same time, this place was a hotbed of freestyle snowboarders. People like Danny Kass were always in town and even started setting up shop, Grenade Gloves as an example, right in June Lake.

Introduction to Backcountry

When Snow Summit bought Big Bear, Justin was offered a salary position which would’ve meant a major cut in pay so he left. It was now 2001 and his girlfriend at the time was moving to Boulder so he thought why not go – he no longer had a job. The day they drove into Boulder, he found a bar manager job and was set for the winter. Spending time in Colorado, Justin was exposed to the backcountry which opened his eyes on the types of snow and terrain available not just in-bounds but in this new outside world.

Using School to pay for Snowboarding

Image Taken By: Ruth Hartnup Whistler – A sea of dichotomy

Around this time Justin figured out he could use a college education to pay for snowboarding. How’s that even possible? In the summer, he would apply for lots of scholarships which would land him $10-12K a semester. He had the plan worked out – back to CA in the fall for a whopping 22-28 units and then CO and the greater west for winter, a little work and the rest snowboarding. I know the first thought in your head is he must’ve not focused on schooling much. Wrong! He was in the business honors program and co-founded a company called Freshies (no relation to us.) As the CO chapter closed but holding onto his master plan of ‘study by the sun and chase snow in the winter’, Justin headed out to Whistler for his winter seasons starting in 2004. Now based out of Whistler, he rode with some of the local heavies and really started understanding what could be done in the mountains. Continuing to spend his winters up in Whistler while going to school in CA, he extended the schooling into a graduate degree. His thesis was about the eco-efficiency of snowboard manufacturing and was published in the International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing.

Graduated (twice)…it was time to get into the Snowboard Industry

With a Master’s degree in hand, Justin made his play to get officially into snowboarding. He applied to over 370 different jobs and couldn’t find a single one! The companies that did talk to him said he was over-qualified. This is when he realized the snowboard industry was built on the ‘who you know not what you know’ mantra.

Can’t find a job… make your own Company

Instead of giving up, he helped launch a company called “The Action Sports Collective” founded by a fellow SDSU alum named Tim Garrett, previous President of …Lost Clothing. The goal was to help action sport companies with:

Business Planning

Strategic Direction

Brand Strategy

Media Buying

Content Development

They pitched their ideas to over 54 companies that year and only closed eight deals. 2008 was an abysmal year for business and he was forced to start thinking about something to get him back into the mountains. Justin and Sarah were determined to find a way to relocate to the Eastern Sierra and start a family, so Justin tried Mammoth Mountain but there were no marketing or management jobs due to a hiring freeze. With their love for June Lake, the couple analyzed the current business and resource situation and found water to be June Lake’s greatest asset. Given both of their love for beer, and mutual backgrounds in home brewing, the concept for a brewery in June Lake was born. As the saying goes – ‘everything happens for a reason’ – Justin’s friends Evan Weinberg and Ross Stewart had successfully started Cismontane Brewing in Rancho Santa Margarita a few years prior and when asked if a brewery in June Lake was realistic they advised the couple to go for it and told Justin to quit his job and come learn production brewing with them.

Why June Lake for a brewery?

There is a lot of competition for breweries in Southern California. After looking around, Justin noticed that Mammoth Brewing Company was producing predominantly ESB malt based beers with German Kolsch yeast, which means they were more malt forward than the currently popular West Coast IPAs and the best part, Mammoth Brewing was the only brewery within 120 driving miles of June Lake. The other unique marker for June Lake is that it has a source of high quality water that no one else in the region taps into to make beer. After a serious conversation with his friends at Cismontane to see if June Lake was a good idea, Justin and Sarah made the decision to set down roots and make-a-go at opening a brewery. Without a lot of collateral such as a house or cars under their names, banks would not work with them. The production training at Cismontane would come, but with both of their backgrounds in business Justin and Sarah knew they needed to secure capital first.

‘Burners’ and fast money… an interesting crowd

With no money coming through The Action Sports Collective, his partner was poached by a company that sold pre-paid cell phones to be their Senior VP of Marketing. These types of phones (aka ‘burners’) are more typically sold to people that don’t want them traced… for whatever reason that may be – you fill in the blanks. Justin was then offered to manage the marketing department and told to name the number to make that happen. He threw out a ridiculous number and shockingly, they said yes! What? It wasn’t what Justin wanted to do, but the goal was to open a brewery and this job was going to make that happen. He used this opportunity to make the capital the couple needed for the true dream – June Lake Brewing.

Settin’ up shop in June Lake

With money coming in from both of their jobs, Justin and Sarah began looking throughout June Lake for a location that would allow them to have a 3 barrel system. They couldn’t find what they wanted until the person who owned a warehouse in town reached out. He asked if they would be interested in utilizing the building. WAY bigger than what they originally wanted, but with no other options, they said yes. Again, the capital they had wasn’t enough even after all that work to make money, so where could they get the additional money to build out the location? Why not sell a little % of the company? It worked – the location was locked down and then came the next hurdle.

It’s tough being first

Even though Mammoth Brewing is technically just down the road, it is located in the Town of Mammoth Lakes (incorporated Mono County) and beholden to their laws and ordinances. June Lake Brewing was now trying to be the first brewery in unincorporated Mono County and that caused a lot of challenges on getting registered. Everything from the size of the area to hang out to how the brewery equipment was setup was disputed. While reaching out to his friends in the brewing community, he read every law throughout the country and proved to them his plans were just and legal. Finally – with all permits approved, and tremendous support from friends, family and the Eastern Sierra community at large, construction began on the building.

Success!

After opening, the amount of tourists visiting the town increased overnight. There was instantly another reason to visit June Lake besides the amazing skiing and fishing that’s already there. Within twelve months, the brewery became cash flow positive AND it created six full time positions for people living in June Lake. The mission statement for the business is simple yet profound:

Make Super Awesome Beer Give back to our community Get people outside

We highly suggest visiting the brewery because their statement to Make Super Awesome Beer – is 100%, absolutely positively true! If you can’t make it there (which is a shame), their beers can be found in local liquor stores & bars in the region. The term that Justin used was micro-regional premium distribution. What he means by this is that they provide their beers on draft & in bottles within 15 miles of their location only where the sellers have great draft systems and customer service. Awesome, indeed!

Best Beer out there

If you do make it to their brewery, expect the unexpected! Justin is a mad scientist when it comes to the recipes he creates for his ‘Brewdom’ (that is my made up word for an awesome beer kingdom.) One that stood out in our minds was the Breakfast Brown IPA. Personally, I am not an IPA drinker but this beer was delicious and perfectly named as you actually could drink it with breakfast. It had the qualities of a dark roasted cup of coffee with slight citrus notes that were just hoppy enough for me to enjoy and imagine eating a stack of pancakes. If you are looking for a great option to bring home, go with the El Jeffe. An American Wheat Ale, El Jeffe has a zesty citrus flavor that is slightly hoppier than an average wheat ale – must be because nothing in this brewery is average! No matter what beer you choose, expect an adventure in taste and aroma. June Lake Brewing may be tucked away in a tiny town, but it is an amazing spot for fabulous beer, great conversation and unmatched scenery.

#Brewery #Brewing #June Lake #Mammoth

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