So, at the beginning of this year we all had to chose a specialism that we would do for the next twelve weeks. I picked 2D digital mostly because I want to specialize in this in the industry and I wasn't sure if I wanted to do 3D just quite yet.

The tutor we have gave us all a project straight away - character performance! Which is awesome! - and sent us away to start work on it. All the while, the 3D and Stop motion students aren't exactly doing much. They have workshops, but other than that, no brief, no deadlines, and no idea that apparently we're all supposed to produce one minute of animation at the end of the twelve weeks.

We're almost six weeks in, and one of my fellow 2D-ers told me that apparently we have to have all the animation done by Tuesday where we're getting marked on all the rough stuff (the 2D specialism includes clean up and digital coloring, which we're given another six weeks to do). None of the other two groups are getting a crit or getting marked, and I only just started animating a couple of days ago because I was pretty sure I had till at least next Friday to finish everything up. To make matters worse, I'm going home this weekend. And not coming back till Tuesday afternoon. And apparently, this crit is worth half our overall grade.

I'm just sort of... astounded about how extremely unfair this is. Our tutor told us there would be a crit, but not that it was going to be worth any part of our overall grade and on top of that, none of the other groups are getting marked. Hell, none of the other groups actually have any WORK, and I've basically been living in the studio all this week, trying to get stuff done. And it's not going to get done.

There's no way I can produce 30 seconds of animation tonight. I can give it a go but, it'll most likely be horrible quality, and I'm kind of twitchy about that. I can always take my lightbox home with me and do some work at home, but by the time I get back to uni I wont have time to linetest it. And it's not like I'd actually do work at home since it's my first time since I started uni that I'd be going home AND my Aunt from Bermuda is over and I'll be spending my time with her. All I can do is try and get as much done as I can, and put it all together on a really rough animatic that I did. So it would be really incomplete, and some scenes would just be keyed, but it would give an idea of what I want it to look like if I was given another week.

I'm hoping that a lot of the other guys are in a similar boat as me, because seriously. I'm going to be so unfairly fucked otherwise.

FML

Guys guys.




I WANT IT. sdfjdgnkjngsdksg

LOOK AT THE LITTLE EARS FLAPPING AND THE FEET AND THE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

there should be a law against things being that cute

Guess who just officially passed their first year at university! WOOOO.

OHHHH SNAP. I'M OFFICIALLY A SECOND YEAR. Shit damn. And here was me thinking that I'd never get through the first year. orz.


Anyways! I've been hella busy with things lately. If I'm not working everyday at that ironing place, I'm freaking out with the rest of the Daisychain cast for ENDGAME! It's been so much fun so far, and we've got a while to go yet but I'm SUPER EXCITED, and also upset that it's ending. 8( But I'm still excited, as Mutant Prom rp is almost ready for us to open the reserves which will probably happen sometime next week! HIGHSCHOOL AU WITH LASER EYES? YES PLS. But yes, all this work and excitement all mixed in with the fact that I've not been getting much sleep isn't all that good for me, so I'm kind of just spending most of my time sort of perpetually exhausted. Zombie Pura will nom your brains.

Thinking about making some more icons over the next couple of days. Also, loveotter I need a word with you about Tommy and Billy's origin story for XI, can you hit me up next time you're about?

YES. ANYWAYS. THAT IS ALL.

Gonna be a bit scarce over the next week or so. I’ve got a deadline on Thursday so it’s gonna be a lot of all nighters and highly caffeinated states of being because, once again, I procrastinated to the point of being overstretched and extremely worried about how little time I actually have to do this project. I’ll get it done though, I always do! The good thing is that I already know what I’m gonna do, and the piece of music I’m gonna use, so it’s only the actual animation and editing that’ll take the time if I finish my sketchbook today, and I can probably do the animation in about 12 hours or so. SO HURRAH.

Because I have to hand it in at uni, I’ll be staying with some friends in Wales from tomorrow till Friday. (he's taking me out for Belgian waffles on Monday evening! And then when we've all finished handing things in since he's got like four projects to give in, he's taking me out into Cardiff to go to wagamamas :D He's such a sweetheart <3) I have no idea if I’ll have internets at the house. There IS internet at Uni but I should be doing work not checking my LJ 8| so I’m not sure how AROUND I’ll be. But I’ll be back Friday evening, so not too long away from you lovely peoples. I may or may not come back with fic, depending on how bored I am on the train home

WISH ME LUCK OKAY?

*flee*

Some part of me decided it would be a good idea to go through my wardrobe and get rid of clothes I don't wear or need anymore as since I've been at Uni I've bought more, and just generally organize my stuff as theres lots of things that I've just thrown in there and forgotten about.

That part of me needs to die in a fire. I started cleaning it at like.. 4pm today. Its now almost 11pm. And I can't actually sit on my bed because of the mess. WHY DID I START DOING THIS

*cries forever and then is sucked into the wardrobe of no return*