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9pm now. It means that I still have 4 more hours to go before "the day ends".

Anyway, I was kind of surprised when I found out that pre-animation started way back in the 18th century. I watched cartoons (such as Popeye, Mickey Mouse and more) and I didn't know that Felix the Cat was the 1st major cartoon. I didn't have much impression of me liking it (cause I didn't like black cats) but I do remember POPEYE THE SAILORMAN which is basically from the same company as Felix the Cat. It was one of my favourite cartoons and I enjoyed watching it. The best part is when Popeye eats the spinach, gets stronger and hits the big fat evil guy in just one punch.

Animators in the past had to continuously draw the background out for all the frames in the animation. There was no camera or computer for them to capture the background or the characters. Every little details have to be drawn over and over again. I can't even imagine me drawing the character and background for a 5 minutes animation. 24 frames per second.. 1 minute would be 1440 frames. 5 minutes would be 7200 . . . . . . . . . . I seriously respect the animators in the past. But well luckily Raoul Barre came out with a "Slash" system that doesn't need them to redraw again and again. Yay for us!

Was looking at the syllabus and it seemed like all the lectures will be fun. Disney, Warner Brothers, Anime, Claymation, I'm interested to know more about them. And the fact that we get to watch films for almost all the lessons seemed pretty cool. Seriously speaking I was hoping that it's a course for History of Film so we could watch films like the Godfather or maybe Leon the Professional (ZOMG MY ALL TIMES FAVOURITE <3<3).
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Couldn't remember most of the lyrics. The only thing that runs in my head is "I'M POPEYE THE SAILORMAN POOTPOOT"