Sometimes...

We just have to go with what we think is best for our story.
Everyone has a different way of telling stories, so people will end up giving mixed suggestions.
There will NEVER be a perfect story and not everyone will like it.

For example, I love Wall-e, yet my sister thought it was boring as frig and fell asleep.

I am thankful for the many suggestions people have given me and I have definitely take them into consideration. Yesturday I had my third critique. Everything was fine except the ending. They want Lay back, even though in the second critique they thought it was not necessary. If something isn't working, then it isn't working. I will try to find a good way to bring Lay back in the end without making it look like it is his ending =). Hopefully this will make my story that much stronger.

The critique that troubled me was style. My teacher mentioned that it was not working for her and asked the class what they thought. Another person put her hand up so that is like.. 2 people out of the whole class. As grateful as I am for the critiques, this is one that I must think for myself and go with it. Why?

Well
1. It is almost November. The film needs to be ready in a couple of months.
2. I have started animating
3. I, myself, feel this is a better style to animate in and enjoy doing so.
4. It only bothered 2 (including my teacher) out of the class. I asked others personally and they thought it was fine.

They were talking about my style looking anime and manga... which I have been trying to avoid.. but I guess  I am failing. If it looks that way to others, then I guess it is. What other people see is sometimes more accurate than what you see yourself. I guess it is the eyes.
My cousin did tell me about how some critiques may get out of hand, and start to make you hesitate when doing the film. I have to say this is one of them.
First of all, I showed my styles to the class in the first critique and this style was more preferred (cause my other normal style would take too long to animate.) Second, when I showed my leica the second time in my current style, no one had a problem with the style. That time, I have not started animating so it would be fine if I wanted to make a style change. What bothered me about this particular critique is not about them not liking my style, it is about the time they gave me this critique. By this time, I cannot be thinking about changing my style. This is when I have to step in as the director and be like... I am doing this.

I am doing this because I am telling this story and this is how I want people to watch my film.

As rude as that may sound.. I apologize, but I have to go for it.
This film will have its flaws, but I am only human, I can only try my best... and hopefully, I will be able to make some people smile.