George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue

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As a kid, I was constantly watching Disney, Pixar, and superhero cartoons. Something about the way they can animate everything seamlessly and capture things that couldn’t exist in real life drew me in, pun fully intended. It stuck with me throughout life and it was a source of comfort when middle school and high school got too hard for me. Once sophomore year hit and I was in Honors English II, we were given a chance to study any subject freely. Of course, I jumped at the chance that I’d finally be able to start learning how to do animation. I spent hours planning on what I want to use for the soundtrack and how the video would pan out. I original thought I could pull off a basic one-minute animation set to “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin,

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