The document summarizes the author's experience at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, where they saw short films, music videos, and animation at the opening night screenings. They also visited VR labs demonstrating VR films of varying quality and saw student films from Manchester University, most of which were too long with poor storytelling. The most informative part was an Industrial Light and Magic masterclass on the visual effects work for Spider-Man: Far From Home, covering lighting, texturing, and character skeletons, though the author missed the Q&A. Overall the author felt they learned a bit about lighting and texturing from the experience.

1. I wentto the Aestheticashortfilmfestival withYorkcollegemainlytosee the VRlabsandthe VFX
masterclassatthe end.
At the beginningwe wenttothe openingnightre runswhichwere mostlyshortfilmswithsome
musicvideosandsome shortfilmmixed withsome animation,mostof the shortfilmswere rubbish
because theyweren’tvisuallygreatandthe storyand the characters were unrelatable.However,the
animationandthe musicvideoswere visuallyinterestingbutthe animationwasthe onlyone thatI
foundhada goodpointto getacross.
The nextthingthat we wentto see wasthe VR labwhichcouldhave beenbetterthan itwas because
the firstvideotheyshoweddidn’tevenreallyneedtobe inVR andthe secondone wasfairlycool
but myeye sightgot a bitblurryat the endand soI couldn’treallyconcentrate onthe lastone.
Thenwe wentto the ManchesterShort filmshowingbythe universitystudentsthereandthe
majorityof themdrawnout too longthere wasverylittle inthe wayof good storyand veryfew bits
and characterswere relatable atall and I couldn’twaittoleave before the Q andA.
The last thingthat I wenttosee was the masterclasswhichwasthe Industrial lightingandmagic
where theytalkedusthroughthe scenesandwhattheydidto an extent withall the lighting
texturingandall the skeletonsthattheyhadto do forspidermanfar from home howeverIdidhave
to missthe Q and A on that unfortunatelyaswell.
The main thingsthatI learnedcame fromthe ILM studiomasterclasswhichwasmainlyshowinghow
theytexturedcharactersforspidermanfar fromhome but the othermainthingtheytalkedabout
was the lightingsoIfeel asif I had learnta little bitfromthe daysexperience.