Friday 23 October 2009
Well today was in some ways productive and some down right lazy.
I've been practicing drawing all day drawing and shading X-Men characters :D.
Caught up with watching some of my many purchased DVD's and started on dollhouse, which I might add is AWESOME :) I don't know why people have been grilling Whedon about it. It's written well and has some incredible acting in it, especially from Eliza Dushku.
Anyways, i've also done some more drawings for my 3D Animation and plan to complete the animation tomorrow hopefully :D
Here's one of my drawings from last night/finished this morning. Hope you like it :) Night people.
Emma Frost from the X-Men :P
I've been practicing drawing all day drawing and shading X-Men characters :D.
Caught up with watching some of my many purchased DVD's and started on dollhouse, which I might add is AWESOME :) I don't know why people have been grilling Whedon about it. It's written well and has some incredible acting in it, especially from Eliza Dushku.
Anyways, i've also done some more drawings for my 3D Animation and plan to complete the animation tomorrow hopefully :D
Here's one of my drawings from last night/finished this morning. Hope you like it :) Night people.
Emma Frost from the X-Men :P
Tuesday 20 October 2009
... it's a Sailboat
Soooo not updated for a few days :P but here we go.
I've been really busy getting all my uni work done. A podcast, presentation and 3D modelling work.
So yeah a fair bit. We're doing a presentation on Commodity Culture and the Simpsons. Sound fun.. well it isn't it's boring as hell and two lines were missing from the top of each page in the reading we were given for it.. so quite difficult to read.
That's tomorrow and i'm nervous as I always am before presentations :( I've known the people i'm presenting to for a year now and likeliness is i'll still be a babbling fool when i get up there.
Then we have the podcast.. I hate doing these normally but this one went down fine.. second recording and i'm happy with it :D Just got to hand that in tomorrow woop!
But the thing i'm really excited about is my progress on 3DS Max. It seems like a pretty intimidating program but once you get used to it it's pretty awesome. I'm currently animating a fight scene between two characters. It's an assessed exercise to help us develop natural movements and i'm really enjoying it.
Um... I've not spent to much but acquired loads of DVD's in the past few days and some would probably say a weird mixture but I like them :D
Dogma, Mallrats, My Neighbour Totoro, Hocus Pocus, Beetlejuice, Karate Kid 1,2 and 3 (In a badass tin XD), Butterfly Effect and The Craft.
HMV having a sale.. means a much more awesome October :D
Anyway bye for now should be back soon.
I've been really busy getting all my uni work done. A podcast, presentation and 3D modelling work.
So yeah a fair bit. We're doing a presentation on Commodity Culture and the Simpsons. Sound fun.. well it isn't it's boring as hell and two lines were missing from the top of each page in the reading we were given for it.. so quite difficult to read.
That's tomorrow and i'm nervous as I always am before presentations :( I've known the people i'm presenting to for a year now and likeliness is i'll still be a babbling fool when i get up there.
Then we have the podcast.. I hate doing these normally but this one went down fine.. second recording and i'm happy with it :D Just got to hand that in tomorrow woop!
But the thing i'm really excited about is my progress on 3DS Max. It seems like a pretty intimidating program but once you get used to it it's pretty awesome. I'm currently animating a fight scene between two characters. It's an assessed exercise to help us develop natural movements and i'm really enjoying it.
Um... I've not spent to much but acquired loads of DVD's in the past few days and some would probably say a weird mixture but I like them :D
Dogma, Mallrats, My Neighbour Totoro, Hocus Pocus, Beetlejuice, Karate Kid 1,2 and 3 (In a badass tin XD), Butterfly Effect and The Craft.
HMV having a sale.. means a much more awesome October :D
Anyway bye for now should be back soon.
Friday 16 October 2009
Palmer, Pizza and Parnassus
Sooo.. today.. well it's not today anymore but you know what I mean :P
It was a pretty cool day. Me and my flat/coursemate were meant to be going to that life drawing class this morning but we got there to find it wasn't as cheap as we'd hoped so maybe when we hae more money it'd be a good idea.
We went back to the flat and after a few hours of aimlessly surfing the net (not doing work like we should've been), we headed back out to a shopping centre to meet some of our friends.
Went to Pizza Hut and had a chicken and red onion pizza, garlic bread and a Diet Pepsi.. all for £4 :D was happy with that especially with limited funds atm.
Afterwards we went to see the new Heath Ledger movie The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. A little surreal but well worth a watch.. but then again I love the surreal :P
Was an overall good day :D Not very constructive work-wise but eh need a day off once in a while.
Ooo also, not to forget i'm quickly getting addicted to Amanda Palmer.. my flatmate's given me her album and a Dresden Dolls album too :D She's so awesome.
It was a pretty cool day. Me and my flat/coursemate were meant to be going to that life drawing class this morning but we got there to find it wasn't as cheap as we'd hoped so maybe when we hae more money it'd be a good idea.
We went back to the flat and after a few hours of aimlessly surfing the net (not doing work like we should've been), we headed back out to a shopping centre to meet some of our friends.
Went to Pizza Hut and had a chicken and red onion pizza, garlic bread and a Diet Pepsi.. all for £4 :D was happy with that especially with limited funds atm.
Afterwards we went to see the new Heath Ledger movie The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. A little surreal but well worth a watch.. but then again I love the surreal :P
Was an overall good day :D Not very constructive work-wise but eh need a day off once in a while.
Ooo also, not to forget i'm quickly getting addicted to Amanda Palmer.. my flatmate's given me her album and a Dresden Dolls album too :D She's so awesome.
Thursday 15 October 2009
Handbook for the Recently Deceased
So the last few days have some strange ones. I've been ill but also been probably more productive when it comes to my future than ever before. After spending half the day in bed yesterday with some sort of cold/flu and missing two lessons because of it, I decided to get something done.
First task was to contact some people in the Animation industry. I've been worrying about exactly where I wanted to go with my degree (once i've finished) ever since our tutor mentioned it to us. So I typed up 5 emails to various different people and sent them out, eagerly waiting on the relpies for hours after that.
One to a 3D Animator in the US who had worked on some big titles including the Bioshock videogame. He was focused on cinematic animation for films and game trailers/cutscenes and this has recently been something i've been looking into and likely the career path i'd like to follow.
Another to Square Enix, the video game company who most famously develop the Final Fantasy game series and many other.
One to a UK-based 3D animator who has worked on quite a few well known advertisements and character animation projects.
And lastly, on to Blur studio, a Visual Effect studio that have worked on shows such as Heroes and one to one of their 3D animators that had particularly interested me.
I'd pretty much given up hope on getting any advice when the emails started coming in.
Firstly I heard from the guy who worked on Bioshock, Ryan. He was really helpful and had spent his time on a long letter detailing all the things I would have to know and what areas I would have to work on to make it in his area of the industry. I learnt a lot in the way of requirements and this also opened up a connection into the industry, which I was so pleased by! :)
Then I was sent an email from Square Enix which, although it was a generic sort of letter that was not so personal, it did highlight the requirements for working in their company, which was great to know.
Following this, I got some great advice from Sandra, the UK based animator, who told me the essentials for her area of animation and she said she would also like to keep in contact. Also, after seeing some of my portfolio, she said i'd make a great character designer XD which really made my day.
I'm still waiting on replies from the other two but still, 3/5 isn't bad :P
That was yesterday.. today was not so constructive.
I got up late, feeling ill again. After a morning trying to recover somewhat, I went to Uni and worked on my 3D animation project, which was going really well and I was pleased with.. but then 3DS Max.. that hellish program closed itself. It was like an oven in that room and I was too annoyed to stay so I came back and sulked if i'm honest :P
Better now and going to go to bed now as I have a life drawing class in the morning which should be good :) But that's me caught up.
I also watched the pilot episode for Dollhouse and it was awesome so I might have to get the DVD boxset tomorrow :) and not forgetting I watched the awesome fiom that is Beetlejuice which was bought the other day :D Burton's the man.
First task was to contact some people in the Animation industry. I've been worrying about exactly where I wanted to go with my degree (once i've finished) ever since our tutor mentioned it to us. So I typed up 5 emails to various different people and sent them out, eagerly waiting on the relpies for hours after that.
One to a 3D Animator in the US who had worked on some big titles including the Bioshock videogame. He was focused on cinematic animation for films and game trailers/cutscenes and this has recently been something i've been looking into and likely the career path i'd like to follow.
Another to Square Enix, the video game company who most famously develop the Final Fantasy game series and many other.
One to a UK-based 3D animator who has worked on quite a few well known advertisements and character animation projects.
And lastly, on to Blur studio, a Visual Effect studio that have worked on shows such as Heroes and one to one of their 3D animators that had particularly interested me.
I'd pretty much given up hope on getting any advice when the emails started coming in.
Firstly I heard from the guy who worked on Bioshock, Ryan. He was really helpful and had spent his time on a long letter detailing all the things I would have to know and what areas I would have to work on to make it in his area of the industry. I learnt a lot in the way of requirements and this also opened up a connection into the industry, which I was so pleased by! :)
Then I was sent an email from Square Enix which, although it was a generic sort of letter that was not so personal, it did highlight the requirements for working in their company, which was great to know.
Following this, I got some great advice from Sandra, the UK based animator, who told me the essentials for her area of animation and she said she would also like to keep in contact. Also, after seeing some of my portfolio, she said i'd make a great character designer XD which really made my day.
I'm still waiting on replies from the other two but still, 3/5 isn't bad :P
That was yesterday.. today was not so constructive.
I got up late, feeling ill again. After a morning trying to recover somewhat, I went to Uni and worked on my 3D animation project, which was going really well and I was pleased with.. but then 3DS Max.. that hellish program closed itself. It was like an oven in that room and I was too annoyed to stay so I came back and sulked if i'm honest :P
Better now and going to go to bed now as I have a life drawing class in the morning which should be good :) But that's me caught up.
I also watched the pilot episode for Dollhouse and it was awesome so I might have to get the DVD boxset tomorrow :) and not forgetting I watched the awesome fiom that is Beetlejuice which was bought the other day :D Burton's the man.
So I finally have a blog...
Hey my name's Chris and after reading my friends and tutors blogs i've finally decided to make one myself.
This will follow me through university while I study Animation and show how my traditional, digital and 3D work improves over my years here. I'll blog as much as possible on what i'm working on and will hopefully get myself out there in the world of CGI.. which I can now see is not the easiest task...
Anyway, this is the start of a long running and frequently updated blog I hope..
So here it is :)
This will follow me through university while I study Animation and show how my traditional, digital and 3D work improves over my years here. I'll blog as much as possible on what i'm working on and will hopefully get myself out there in the world of CGI.. which I can now see is not the easiest task...
Anyway, this is the start of a long running and frequently updated blog I hope..
So here it is :)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)