And like that, he's gone...

...or at least I will be come Sunday 24th, after handing in my dissertation, making and wearing another awesome homemade costume to our End Of Dissertation party and going out with Jane and Joseph for a goodbye drink or something then I will be getting a taxi/train/plane to Schipol Airport and for the first time I think someone will be waiting for me!



So there it is, two hard bound copies, a soft copy and FIVE abstracts!! I also have a CD with it on, it's more bits than an 'In Rainbows' boxset. But of course I think I've used too much on the Letraset white lettering and have only done one spine so far, the other one will be all in capitals!

Meanwhile, I have got back the results for assessment and I got a high 2:2, which was a bit of a shock and will act as a boot up the backside upon my return on the 5th of March. I have storyboarded the Dendrophobia scene and talked with the sound guys at college about underwater mics and recording splashes.

Oh, and I am now 22... I naturally got some (Indiana Jones) LEGO!! and a LEGO Star Wars T-Shirt, as well as two posters, some Pixar DVDs and live collection CDs.

Breda, here I come! x

Nearly over...

...then normal work patterns can resume.


Dissertation (as seen above!) is due in this Friday (22nd) and so at the moment that is the main focus, although if I can fit in an animatic of one scene (Dendrophobia - which I have storyboarded!!) before I leave for Holland on the 24th then that would be a bonus.

We also have the continued organisation of the dissertation party AND final show, which is going slowly but surely, so that's all good.

In other news: I saw 'I Am Legend' last night which was pretty good, with amazing CG and
a few jumpy moments!! and I have the next episode of Lost (4.3) to watch later on as well!!

Oh, and it's my birthday on Tuesday which I'm unsure as to what I will do what with dissertation dominating most of my time unfortunately.

Listening to: Interpol - Slow Hands (Eden Sessions)

Done and dusted!

The DVD is in, the drinks are waiting and the clothes look great... it can only mean one thing - a whole lot of first AND third years are going to the SU/PONANAs/Waterfront/Mustard/etc to celebrate.


Yesterday I thought about playing with my LEGO and made a swimmer man and later on a bee, so naturally I animated him a little bit, it took a while because I was already getting bored trying to find enough white bricks by this point, but maybe I'll use him again in the future.



PARTY!!!

Faces!!! (Updated)

So, when I am not doing proper FMP or dissertation work I'll add a couple of different swimmer men!

Speeding along...

A (rather fast) walk cycle I did this morning, he bounces a bit and loops perfectly I think, not too bad for about 15 frames.

Working hard...

Yesterday I had a fairly busy day, with recording sound in the morning for the Breda project (making goose noises!!) with the help of Phil the technician.

I also did some 3D work on the model of Swimming Man again, fixed his feet and made some fingers, tweaked other bits here and there, then went back again later in the evening to learn how to skin him.



In between doing 3D I did another line-test that was for climbing out of a pool, it was meant to be an island but the way you walk out on a slope wasn't as interesting to draw, so I thought to make it more as if it was a swimming pool instead.


(apologies for it being really faded and bleached out)

I have a dissertation meeting today at 4pm and will take along what I've written so far (three chapters and the introduction) but I'll try and do more before then, might go in to college to do another line test too (maybe the walk out of water).

There's my axe!!

This is a bit of animation I've done today after the crit. session we had, I have also done more on the actual axe-swinging bit from the earlier post.

To put off doing animating I also did another couple of lines of different faces too.

A (Swimming) Man of Many Faces

I might fill up one page in my sketchbook of these... I already have two lines (this is a chopped up version).

Put on 3D glasses NOW!

Well, starting last week I have been modelling in Silo in the Games Design room at NSAD a 3D Swimming Man, partly to remind myself of how to use it and hopefully learn a bit more to hold me in good stead for the future in the "real" world.



^Click on this picture to watch it animate (it's a gif but I don't know why it's not playing here).

This is a 7 frame test that I did today (having woken up at 12.30pm!?!?! I mean.... what the heck?!??) so, I'll wake up EARLY tomorrow and do lots more on it, he's lifting his axe to chop down a tree he's noticed pop out of the ground.

Favourite Phobias (....so far)

This is a potential list of the 9 phobias that I will use in the final film, meaning that I can focus on them straight away rather than meandering about all 26 letters.

A - Arachnophobia (spiders).
D - Dendrophobia (trees).
E - Ecclesiophobia (churches) and Entomophobia (insects).
F - Felinophobia (cats).
I - Isolophobia (being alone).
M - Melissophobia (bees) and Melophobia (music).
Z - Zoophobia (animals).

Although I do love my drawings of angels that I did for Uranophobia (heaven) so could always end up with him dying only to start screaming as he's carried aloft by angels who drop him back in the water at the very end of the animation.

So, now (along with dissertation) I can start further work on the preproduction side of things... animation tests/animatics/storyboards (in no particular order!).