Starts tomorrow. Be good to see everyone again and OMGINVITE THEM TO CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN/RANDOM DESSERT night. It’s gonna be cool actually doing something now, I’ve felt kinda… purpose-less most of summer. At the same time, a lil bit of me’s dreading it. The second year’s the hardest. No exams, but shitloads of coursework.
I mean, this year we had to do a minute of full animation, tops. Thats… 720 frames, provided you don’t reuse and skip and fade in/out etc (so like, 500 frames). This year it’ll probably be 2 minutes minimum, claymation, and CGI.
Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to be doing CGI. Provided, of course, that someone turns up. That portion of the course is exactly the bit where I say “This uni has been a waste of time” or “Hey, I’m actually learning what I want to!”
Softimage XSI looks… erm… baffling. I think once I get my head around the layout (maybe I should put some of the models I’ve done in Maya in the gallery or in the blog?) I’ll be ok for polygon modelling, which is all I’ve ever done. I’m not sure whats used more now, Polygons or Nurbs.
In addition, we have to learn texturing, lighting, rigging and rendering. In the space of 15 weeks. 15 week of 2-6 hour slots, depending on who we have. So 30-90 hours to learn everything.
I’m going to need to take a Masters, I think =P
Also, I’ve tried doing some arty stuff in photoshop with a different method, more paint-erly. Not sure how it’s going to turn out at this moment. And it’s another portrait of an imaginary person. I had a go at flash, but the lineart goes all wibbly on me and I don’t want to have to do each line like a path. I guess that’s a practice thing though.
I want to see Arthur and the Invisibles. The rendering and texturing looks very nice; compared to The Reef/Shark Bait in which you can see the textures are really much too small. I feel bad about not going to the cinema to see it now, not supporting the animation industry for doing something 3D that isn’t talking animals this or robots that, just because no-one else wanted to go with me =P
In other news, I’m having two sausages and some coleslaw for dinner because my stomach’s being stupid and won’t eat anything big without going “Oh shi-! FOOD! Commence shaking and wooziness, stat!” and I’m hungry, and its my own fault for not going down the shop because I wasn’t feeling well because I was hungry.
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*sulk*
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