University: Week 6

Real time, week 7 (the holidays don't count as a week), was a tiny bit of a wake up call. I've got a one minute stop-frame animation for Animation Methodologies due on Tuesday. I did 20 seconds today and I've got tomorrow off, so I should be able to finish it then**. Apparently, this is an impressive feat, according to others (my tutor mentioned that it takes some 70+ hours for these kinds of things? I spend less time on video games!) and the animation itself is smooth and works quite well, except for the fact my iPhone likes to focus and unfocus all of the time. No matter, the marks are on the quality of the animation, not of the quality of the camera.

**This was when I wrote the start of the blog entry. I've finished it now, uploaded it and have inserted it at the bottom of this page.

Visual Communication is due the week after, and I have to get some photos in before it's due. Shouldn't be too hard, but it kind of sucks I can't use photos off the internet.

Digital Media has a little bit until its due and even then, should be a piece of cake. The subject of a video is literally "anything" which makes things really annoying since I have no idea what to make it about. My video editing skills are quite okay and I have Premiere Pro now so it should be cake.

Drawing for Design, my final week 1 portfolio was due, which I submitted on Tuesday. We did more life drawing this week, which you'll get to preview in next weeks entry. But, how about week 6's stuff?!

This was pretty much it for week 6. Draw the precinct at Kelvin Grove. I chose third perspective because it seemed like... well, more fun! It's not perfect, but I've never been good at buildings or anything real. So I'm still proud of it.

As for odds and ends, just a few mindless sketches from this week from work and inbetween my animation assignment. I tried a different style from my usual and it turned out quite nicely, especially "Zac" (but he does look like a giant d-bag, which was the point). The second is Michael Cale, who is Oakley's brother in Atlantis Arising. And then, there's Oakley.

So, I managed to finish my Animation Methodologies assignment in two days and I quite like it. Those two guys really make me giggle so I took some action shots of them as I went along. Check out the YouTube below to see the final product.

Well, I'm going to SUPANOVA tomorrow down at the Gold Coast. I have to get up at like, 5AM so hopefully I actually get up on my alarm! If you're going, I may or may not see you around (though I definitely won't be dressed up). I plan on seeing ry-spirit, frzdragon and kururu-pon while I'm there and stuff. Wish me luck!

Today's song; Saturday Love - Angels & Airwaves