Before After

I posted a pic! yay! i've been mat painting today and i was so psyched bout the difference between the old version and the new that i had to post this (and also because apparently i should have been posting pics for ages now).

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Reload

Unhappy but have put the white flag away for possible usage later. Last week i worked on my run cycle and a fall. Both of those shots are doing much better and are both almost finished. With the tut jack did on backgrounds as long as i get to work on making my background fit my maya layout better my layout should be done fairly soon. Need to tweek my sound and am a little concerned about the 2000 word essay. I will not be working this holiday much at all, will spend most of it here working hard and trying to get stuff done.

I'm screwed

it's offical. i'm pretty sure i'm screwed. my animation isnt even close to finished, i haven't done my lighting of textures and i don't know how. i offically hate 3d at least if i was doing 2d i'd have some kind of acurate idea about how close or far i am from being finished. i'm screwed. i'm screwed i'm screwed. i'm shopping for a white flag as we speak.

Chock a block

I ended up getting a lot of work done last week. I started setting up some basic animation for every shot of my animation. I plan to finish at least one of my walk cylcles by the end of this week. Not much to say at this stage. I'm not exactly sure where i stand with regards to how far along i am. At this stage i think i'm just going to have to work as hard as i can and not worry where everyone else is.

Are we wasting time

or is it wasting us?

Last week i spent a lot of my time working on a picture in photoshop that was not really related to my project. I was using it as practise to get better at using tablets. I'm thinking i may use these techniques later to create my background for machan though i'm still not sure how i'll pull it off. I began my essay last week with a mind to finish it this week. I also did my first 'stepped' animation shot in maya last week which made me feel a little bit better about where i stand in terms of how my project is coming along although to be honest i'm still not %100 per cent sure. It's a bad time or year to be slacking off and i'd done so frikin well up till now but beginning of last week i lost nearly all motivation. Seeing everyones projects coming together makes me doubt the value of my own. However being this far into the year and the project it is far too late to change. This week i plan on getting into animation more feircely and get some actual work done.

Blasting Play into Soundscapes

link to the early stages of my animation




I am much happier with the soundscape and have a list of things to change and work on this week which makes me happy. i am concerned that i am not working hard enough and not enough work is getting done especially since some of the second years have already finished their animations and i have barely started mine. Suppose all i can do is work hard and hope i finish on time.

Seise the Music

This week i completed a rough version of my sound scape which i didn't like very much at all, which freaked me out because it was kinda the best i could do. I love music but i don't think i'm too good at it. And some of the shots looked short and more panic ensued. thankfully i talked to jack asap and he gave my some really helpful suggestions and now i have some direction. I'm still worried but having somewhere to start to fix problems helps.

For the last few weeks i've been going to tafe and woking without a day off and i feel it's affecting my work at school. Having no time to unwind, rewind, relax, do homework means i end up doing it at tafe during class time instead of going to class. That's no good, thats partly to do with discipline, partially to do with the fact that i think everyone needs time off, even just one day a week. So i'm going to change my shifts around at work and put tafe before cash.

For the moment, that is all.