Graduaded!

Time has flown by.
On june 21st I graduaded ! Officially I got my diploma on june 28th.

The screening and exposition in school were very fun, I got lots of positive criticism. It was also very nice to share these moments with my family and friends and finally show them the result of 7 months work.
Last wednesday was the last day of the exposition, thursday my class and I went to the Efteling (amusement park in the Netherlands), it was lots of fun and yesterday it was time to clean up the last things in school.
Now it's officially over and I feel kind of weird about it. But I have tons of ideas, so I will be okay in the end I think.

But first I'm going to rest and sit on a boat all weekend and lie in the sun and read.
I will update this website with a short trailer/teaser and a new showreel shortly.

You'll be hearing from me :) but thought it was time to update you with the fact of my graduation ;)

Update on graduating

Although I'm keeping you posted via this website: http://juliajagergraduation.blogspot.com

Here is some work I've been posting there.

My story is about a little girl that lives in a colored village, with lots of colored houses, but her own house is still white. She has to find her own color and realizes she always had it in her.

Project finish date is June 17th. 23rd of June I'll know if my graduation is approved and June 28th I will get my certificate, if that's the case :). There's an exhibition of all the graduates in my school, that will open the night of June 28th, till the third of July. (Beukenlaan 1, Breda, The Netherlands).

Rough of the street, something to hold onto, so it won't be total chaos in me head ;) Will probably be changed while the story evolves.

Different take on my character :)

Graduation Blog

I made a new blog with more information about my graduation project, I will probably keep posting here, but if you're interested in more, definitely visit my graduation blog.

Not everything is updated yet, but it will become more detailed over time.

Graduation Blog

Graduation concept art I

This is my first post about my ideas about my graduation. It won't be long, because I actually have to go to bed ;), but I just want to update some work of mine, to show you some new things.

My graduation film is very much inspired by a little island near Venice, namely Burano. I went there last year and all the colors were so brilliant, and I was there on a bright blue day, and you can't imagine what impression that left on me.
I had to do something with that experience.

Around that inspiring island I made a story, it's still very conceptual, but I think the synopsis of my story will be;
In a little village, in which every house has a different color, lives a girl whose house is still white, on a little journey she tries to find what her color is and what color she should give her house.

I think some themes in my story are chosing a path in your life, and growing up.
I want to tell it like a children's story, something like 'Lost and Found'. And I very much want to be able to also make a children's book out of it.

Color will play a significant role and again the story, which I want to tell with the help of a poem.

Here's some very conceptual work, but it's something, I'm very glad that we can finally start and I can start this beautiful adventure :)

First sketch of my character

And then lightning strikes

Last night when I went to sleep it happened. It was like a lightning bolt.
Out of nothing I just found a solution to my story, and it just... clicked. Like all the messages and ideas came together.
I feel this kind of euphoria now, and I want to shout it out to the world, what I came up with. I hope it will come out as brilliant, my graduation short.

I'm not going to tell you yet, I'm sorry. I'm just hoping mom or dad will be able to listen in a short while, because I need to share my idea, or I will explode.

Just thought I would share my euphoria feeling after my message a few days ago.
Good day to you all!