Thursday. "phone is ringin i dont wanna answer"

Hello people reading this,

I swear, I nearly cried when Alan said that Character Design was going to be in 3d. Ok, I know, the demand for 3d animators are higher, but like....not when we're doing p3 at the same time!! I cried for the first time in my poly life when we were doing p2 and animation2 (3d)......sigh.....

I had to change my Gantt Chart a second time and I know that THERE IS NOOOOO TIMEEE. Hello eyebags, mygosh. It's really sucky because class is in the morning, I'm not a big fan of the morning sun. I sound like I'm complaining here, which is kinda bad, I feel annoyed at myself.

So far, I've colored my first few scenes, it's going at a really really really slow pace. Ok, that's partly because I've been procrastinating; I find it so hard to concentrate lately. And the shifting from one class to another is such a pain. Maybe I should just move to the 2d lab at 12. It just...ruins mah groove and throws my mojo~.....damn. and I'm STILL PMS-ing!!!! like omg, please just move on witht the cycle already damnit. sigh....and crushes get old and boring when they ignore you..sigh.....

anyway, I think, the atmosphere in the animation room is quite nice...with the exception of some spaces. but er, it's quite funny at any point of time and really friendly. I think this comes from Amanda's "lets all learn and work together" attitude. Every individual is helping the other out. I mean "ahem" compare with the video students...well, those that I hear from, there just seems to be so much animosity amongs the groups and individuals alike..so sad. O well

Thursday. Vegas Skies

Dear blog,
I need a new song to be stuck in my head.

So, presentation just ended; only a few of us presented our animatics though.

I worked hard all night yesterday, actually, tts not true, till about 0330. I would have continued but then I dont have quicktime in my home computer and AVI was doing screwy things on Premiere Pro. Yup.

I got my friend to wake me up at 0830 but I ended up sitting on my bed till 1000. Damn. Haha. Anyway, I went to school and tweaked my timing in Premiere once I exported the Flash file using Quicktime. I didnt have enough time to put in all my sound effects though. I only got in when David was drinking and burping.

There were a few comments about my animatics, k, those that I have to improve on first.
The car should swerve more to the left and right.
David should have saw the police car lights from his review mirror; so the police car is coming from behind.
The cop is (still) too close. (Though I edited this already, heh)
The close up shot of the breathalyzer is too close, should zoom out a bit so people can register what it is.
Too many going back and forth with the cop.
Staging of cop and David weird (The reason why I hadnt change it from my storyboard was because I think it makes sense; should ask around and consult Alan again so I will understand)
Staging where the cop's hand and David's profile is nice.
Cop's hand should pull a bit of the underwear out.
Yay, tts all

So, some things that people have complimented me on my animatic. Amanda saw my road cycle and said it was nice and well done; so did Raj (thanks)
Er...Jarrold and the twins like my drawing style
Oh, I did not model David to look like Alan, haha, though David does start to look like him.

Yeah, k, so need to work a bit more on my animatic and backgrounds and all.

I liked Rachael's animatic and storytelling, well paced and super funny.
Jarrold's narration today was quite funny. Had a good laugh. haha.

Yay, keep going peeps, we can do this. Ugh, some people said the bags under my eyes were a bit puffy today.

Friday. Vangel

So I am now really tired of drawing storyboards. I've done mine thrice and its still not finalized. rarr. At least Animation2 is now almost out of the way.

At least my starting sequence is alright now, just need to change the ending and shots and staging. I tried drawing out the interior of the car and it's so difficult. O well, k, today was quite dry.

Monday . Remembering Sunday

K, I am now super jealous of Raj and Andreas because I just heard that they are going OSIP and the flight they're taking is on the A380. Damn.
I'm also super jealous of people my age who has such a kick ass band and have made it big.

Anyway, today, I showed Alan my developed storyboard. Happy to say that I managed to cut down the front part of it. I really have to start trying to tell my stories in a shorter amount of time. It just gets so draggy, even when I'm telling my friends a story.

When Alan saw my storyboard, he said I'm still lacking a few important shots; the visual storytelling part of it. So, back to the drawing board for me.

We watched Wallace & Gromit today. Haven't seen any of the movies because I was quite prejudiced againts the not-so-nice character design. BUT after I watched it, it becomes really cute and the storytelling is really well done; it was hillarious. I am inspired.