When the Champorado and Coffee Lacks Sugar

What's worse? Taking advantage of the project to do your hobby or got taken advantage by others?

While working on this animation in the past few days, it was just yesterday that reality strikes me. Someone from my group told me that I'm taking this project way too seriously compared to the others. I know she was right, I do 'cause it was something I was passionate about. Sadly, it wasn't the case for everyone.

As a result of me being overly passionate, I exerted more effort than my groupmates that caused my exhaustion physically and mentally. Coming with the restless night, there's also the distress that comes from frequent crashes of the software I'm using, endangering all the files I've been working on. This continue 'till it comes to the point that I no longer enjoy what I'm doing. 

That's when I thought about a compensation. I felt like I need compensation. I can't bear the thought that my groupmates will benefit to the work I spent my health on. It's unbearable. It's fine to me for them to have great grades or have same grades as me because giving them low points won't make them stop from graduating highschool,  right? That's reality, this subject is just minor afterall. It won't make a dent. That's when I thought about money compensation. 

In my opinion, it was fair enough. I have similar experience in the past where people pay me for my talent, to draw this and that. Sharing this experience from 1 year ago, when I was in 11th grade, a grade 12 student commissioned me to draw a poster for her 21st Lit. subject (which is the same subject as this project) for 200 pesos. 

In this project, I decided to make them pay me 300 pesos which they will be divided according to their help and being active reasonably. This is the first time I did a short animated film like this and it wasn't really really good but it wasn't something that anyone can do.

Now, I'm here, waiting for my other groupmate to finish the editing. Let me share this unedited animation version first.