DAY 1

• 13-14th century Northern Italy
• "Italy" didn't exist, more like a unified idea of it did
• Dante is a Florantine
• in dante's day, they wrote in Latin
• To succeed you needed to know latin and everyone was catholic
• nobody spoke in the written latin, they spoke a "vulgar" form of latin
• they wrote in Roman Latin
• Dante was good at Latin which is why what he did was more popular. He was not the first to do what he did
• A lot of guys wrote courtley love poetry.
  • About unrequited love
  • usually involves a knight. social rankings: knight > the professions > peasants
  • Nobility class is called "Gentilo"

• consider a character as their own living, breathing, thinking, feeling entity
• they struggle, they learn, they grow.
• allow the character to make decisions by themselves
  • who - who are they
  • what - what are their motivations
  • why - why do they want what they want
  • when - when does it take place
  • where - where does it take place
  • how/describe - how to they pursue the thing that they're after/what are the emotions that motivate their actions or basically just a bunch of descriptors of the character
    • the more descriptors/adjectives you use the more nuances you get to have in a character

hw :

1

• Who - Stanley Ipkiss
• What - wants to be more confident
• Why - get the girl
• When - '80-90s?
• Where - Edge City
• How - (vaguely) eccentric, awkward, shy, pushover, down on his luck, sheepish, insecure, "repressed romantic", humble, timid, meek

2

• Who - The Mask (persona)
• What - wants to show confidence
• Why - to get the girl (and party)
• When - '80-90s?
• Where - Edge City
• How - eccentric, zany, bonkers, off-the-wall, crazy, romantic, insane, cartoonish, party animal, loud, brash, stylish, suave, smooth, daring, freaky

• got ur number animation (one day) - lovebug/linny
• "VHS COVERS" - SD
• goodbye mr a - atticus
• girls talk boys (animatic, realistically) - SD teens
• The King by Sarah Kinsley / Pangaea Girls by Candy Claws - bernard
• crocodile rock dance test? - jack
• eff this job . perhaps
• hai yorokonde ? maybeee mybnot
• brat edit lol

• learn how to drive (in progress)
• drive a car
• get a job
• musical in person
  • american psycho musical
• animation meme
• arg