I had to pay off a couple rather large sums of money today so a lot of money, that I knew I couldn't keep, passed through me today. And let me tell you I am feeling stressed!
Like a very bad kind of stressed where I sorta wanna barf. I just missed class because of it. Golly.
At school we where having ourselves a little bit of fun. Dani brought in markers and so we were colouring in everything that we had drawn. It was hella tight. We also decided on who every was as a pokemon. It'll probably come to no surprise to you that everybody in the class decided that I was this type of a pokemon:
In other news, it's the last 8 days before my first semester of animation school ends and there is a great deal of stuff on my plate to deal with. This is the seconds before the storm hits. I'm kinda sitting here waiting for it all to start flying towards me.
Impending doom if you will.
I wanna be excited about Christmas but this is just SO frightening! I wish I had time to take a nap right now. I'm exasperated!
Today I went shopping with Steph and Sam. Among the things I got where Reeces Pieces! Those candies are so good I just had to get sooo many. But then an idea accursed to me. Wouldn't it be great that if instead of smartie cookies, I made reeces pieces cookies?
I suddenly became giddy with excitement. Smartie cookies are soooo good! But Reece's Pieces are sooo much better then smartie cookies. This just had to happen.
After finding a usable recipe online a quickly went to work. I put in the butter and sugar and creamed it together. Then the vanilla, and eggs. Then the flower, baking soda, and salt then well mixed. Then I poured my bag of delicious Reece's pieces into the mix, happy as I watched it give the mix wonderful candy lumps! I carefully read the recipe careful to get the exact amount and put them in at the extract time it told me to.
Once mixed I buttered a pan plopped on six cookies to test it out and threw them in the oven. I was all smiles as I waited for my yummy cookies to finish!
After the appropriate amount of time I open the oven to check on my little darlings. It was like I had just thrown six ice cubes into the oven. They had turned completely flat! Confused and a tad disappointed I poked it with a tooth pick to see if they were done. The mixture was remarkably soft even through then edges where brown. So I let the strange puddle cookies sit there a little while longer.
When I returned to check on them they were all of them where completely dark brown! Worried, I pulled them out as to not let them burn. I lifted one of them up to check and see if the bottom was burn.
Much to my surprise the cookie completely folded in on it's self. Even though it was almost burn it still acted like liquid! Puzzled, I peeled them off the tray. My problem was not enough flour I deduced so I add a heeping helping of flour to my mix and mixed it up again.
Then second batch of cookies where still flatter then pancakes and way to soft. But they where much more editable looking. So I excitedly tried out my concoction.
It tasted like popcorn.
I don't think I have ever been quite so disappointed with myself.
Trying to safe the mix I add more flour to mix my puddle problem. The third batch looked like top quality well shaped cookies! They were the perfect consistency just the right amount of softness.
They still tasted like popcorn.
I then decided that I wasn't going to cook the rest of these horrible cookies, I was going to toss the batter. But I still wanted to enjoy my Reece's pieces. So I put the rest of the dough in a strainer hopping that it would leave me with wet reece's pieces.
The batter washed away easily enough, but just as I was about to wash the last of it away and completely salvage my candy the it suddenly became very mushy. Taking the remained of my candy out it had all started to become one glob of candy. Willing to deal with that I tasted it. It was just a glob of peanut butter left.
I don't get it! What went wrong? Maybe I better check my status... Oh right... I forgot how increditably HORRID I am at cooking! I'm going to have to live off of twinkies and t.v. dinners for the rest of my life.
I don't think I could of failed this cooking ordeal anymore then that!
Yeah! So yesterday I played Quite a bit of video games, slept a lot and hardly did anything productive. I thought I was really going to feel the hurt today.
However I went to school and my classes, passed my leg walk cycle. I finished my story board. That's right! I drew a whole story board! It was for one scene and it was 10 pages! that is thirty drawings! Confused about what a story board is? Well every shot you see in a film, a story board artist drew first!
Aaaaaaaaand check this out: Nice picture you my might think, but on no, think again! That's; ORIGINAL ART WORK! DONE BY ME! I pumped that thing out in a little over an hour! Colour and everything! Done in black marker and pencil crayons! The paper version looks so much nicer but this is okay too. Not only is it awesome and made fast but it's like my first fan art ever! Well first one that doesn't suck massive amounts of butt. That's why I have just leveled up! :D
Boo-yeah!
I feel like I'm one of the stronger if not strongest artist in the class right now. I like it when I feel this good! I'm ahead for the week and plan to do a load more work tomorrow! I think I might just finish all of my work for this week, before this week starts! Kick it! I need to draw Bowser more often!
Instead of balancing food and activity, I am balancing video games and school work! In about equal amounts today too.
I never really realized how much of an emo Cloud really is. But I like it. Now that I've play Dissidia whenever Cloud speaks I can totally hear his voice. Sounds like this:
OH! Yeah I just remembered! My symbol was totally stolen! Well I know my symbol isn't really that creative and given time I probably could think up something amazing but check this out: The heart with an angel wing and devil wing with a crown ontop is totally mine. Grr///
I should really put up some art work of my own up here.
On a side ending note... I can't wait to build my own fandom with characters and stories I weave.
And doesn't it just fit perfectly? I think if I got the CD Owl City for Christmas I would be very okay with that. :D
Nuaw, I gotta tell you guys, my heart has been going crazy recently. A couple weeks ago I had myself a pity party crying fest because I realized something I shoulda realized like seven months ago. So I went back a re-read some messages I had received and it just became clear to me what I shoulda got right away. And now I've been kicking myself for weeks.
Also getting down on myself pretty heavily. And since my sad blog post never go over well at all I had not been blogging in the slightest. Anyways last week was particularly bad because I was sick and had so much time to think. And the only thing I could think about was my love life. It sucks to say but I think I'm a bit jaded now, and fear that no matter who I find, no girl is going to love me as much as I love them. So I've just been mopping in that and just wanting to feel loved. And then tonight I was at school and I was talking to my good friend Mikki.
And I can't believe how similar our love stories were. So being able to vent about it felt good. And then I was reaching maximum depression about it when pumpy songs came on and I just started to dance! I danced in my class room for like two hours just now. And then I was just practicing being saucy, ya know singing and dancing and all that. And I got complemented quite a bit on it all too! So I've cured myself from feeling horrible!
I feel like if I find a girl I like I could just like woo her like that! What a self confidence booster. I am one attractive male. So now I just need a girl friend. Still been the problem since square one... but at least I have the other loose threads worked out. I know it's probably not a good time for a girlfriend, but I don't care! Can anybody find me somebody to love?! I'm so gleeful and happy!
Is the song from above done? Sounds perfect for me, no? Now watch this video of awesome Asians! Watch the hips!
The one in mostly pink is my favorite! And now re watch it but pay attention to the fail flip at 2:05 to the left. It makes me chuckle. Everybody in my class is learning how to shake their hips like that right now. Everybody!
28. Ski Hat with Ear Flaps (You may knit this yourself, but the the bigger it looks and the bigger the pom-pom on top, the crazier it looks, the comfier, fuzzier, the bigger the string from the ear flaps, the better. Theseexamplesarenot what I'm looking for. I want a bigger (looking. it still has to fit my head), crazier and softer one.)
Last Resort. Posters, Action Figures, Keychains, or Plushies of animated movies or video games I love. (Jessica can help you here. Don't buy me random crap.)
And finally a word to my mother. Dear mother, these are all the things I want this year. Please if getting one of these things is not in your price range or you cannot find it please do not buy a less version that is cheaper and crappier, simply do not get it for me.
Things I like; Bowser The Colour Green Final Fantasy Characters --(Ingis from final fantasy 3, Palom and Porom from final fantasy 4, Celes from final fantasy 6, Vivi from final fantasy 9, Kimahri from final fantasy 10, Ashe from final fantasy 12, Moogles.) Princess Peach The Cheshire Cat Hearts The fantastic Four Bears Lions Wolves Swords Bananas
ENJOYING MY TIME OFF! YEAH! And spending my money... oops... I'm gonna have to stop doing that...
I'm having a hard time because I keep finding things I want for Christmas... but then I end up buying them... my bad.
I went to an Asian Mall the other day. I sorta felt like I went to Japan because all of the stores were tiny. Like three meters by three meters. That's how tiny these things were. Very fat people would not like it there.
However thanks to that trip I now have a princess peach plushie. :) I so nerdy.
I've also been playing Rock Band with my roommates. It have been FUN! We attempted the 84 song long set list on hard. We were able to get to song 81 before we just couldn't pass it. We spent eight hours straight on it. My back and feet were killing me. Sasha's wrist was sore and almost swollen. Steph's voice was sounding horse and Sam said it felt like she tore a a muscle on her leg. Oh and my bass petal exploded.
That's right, right in the middle of the song (when I took over for Sam on drums) The bass pedal began to feel really weird. I lift my foot up to take a look at what could be the matter and it is in three pieces. So after a roll of packing tape I now have an extremely crappy foot petal. We went to try and find a new one and only EB was offering one at like 30$. I didn't buy it because I was looking for a cheaper one. But none was to be found. I was la sad.
Other then that I've also been watching The Guild!
It is frigging AWESOME!!
You don't have to watch the whole thing but watch the first 30 seconds!
Oh that's something I want for Christmas! Watch The Guild Seasons one and two!
I like it so very much! *Rave rave rave* *Go on and on and on* I've watched all that they have up and I'm dieing for them to post more! Plus watch this too!
You guys have no idea how insane my life has just been. I'm not even sure what just happened... I mean I remember there was a week before this but I can't remember what I was doing.
Like on the fifteenth I tried to get ahead of myself and try to get my homework done for the next week.
Oh yeah, get this, thanksgiving, you all remember it right? Fun, family, friends, good times and good food had by all. Fun weekend, great weekend. However get back and SLAM!! Hit right off balance! Classes; Storyboard, two giant assignments due. Life drawing, three giant assignments due. Layout, one assignment due. Character Design, one assignment due, except it's so huge it might as well of been four! And I didn't even have any animation homework.
So Thursday I start on a story board assignment. Takes me all day to rough out something that doesn't look like poo. Friday it takes me all day to clean that same assignment up because I woke up late and took a few hours to myself before I keep working again. Saturday I arrive and work very hard on my other Storyboard assignment (because both are due on Monday). Takes me a very long time to do. Aggravating especially because I'd already busted my butt completely it once. Teacher tore it apart and made me do it again. SO I did. Also Finished three drawings of the skull for life drawing class finished extremely late. Went home and passed out. Sunday I did the other life drawing assignment and said screw it to the third one he wanted. Then I tried to start working on my GIANT assignment due on Wednesday. I mean I had already finished one of the three heads he wanted us to sculpt but then I was having a massively hard time trying to fall in love with this last one. It just did not want to jive with me. So After Monday I had only finished sculpting two out of the three heads, and still have to draw them each five times, fully rendered. So last night I try to figure out what was the third head I would like to sculpt. I could not think of anything, so I wound up borrowing an idea form my good buddy Blake. finished sculpting it at midnight. Drew them all int he next five hours came home and finished that layout homework passed out at like six in the morning. And then got up at eight for class.
I just finished a six hour nap.
My average meals per days has plummeted to 1.5. The one is my breakfast of cereal and the .5 is the other food I eat. Which isn't that much. I felt really sick before my nap, if I'da had anything in my stomach to throw up I would of. instead I just tried to sleep while it twisted into knots.
I woke up just now and I felt so weak uuuh. So I ate a banana. Yum.
SO if you all were wondering why I suddenly fell off the face of the earth that's where I was.
Yaaay
Although it was soooo much work I am so excited to get it all back because I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. And I really like my out come. As soon as I get some of the stuff back I'll share it with you guys and you can tell me if it was worth killing myself over.
Okay that was a complete lie. Today was a work filled day. I got to school on time for layout class, (which I didn't do last week) and I was bored to metaporical tears. Then after that I pretended to work on my layout homework until my layout teacher left. After that was character design.
I started drawing people for that class. I got really pumped for scultpting my heads so I started to do this one guy who has tiny eyes and a giant jaw. He has a gaint horn on top of his head like a Rhino. he has an awesome expression on his face. I was working away on it and before I knew it was eight o'clock at night time and i had collect a gaint crowd around my desk. They were all working on their heads. I think my head is one of the best heads. I wasted a whole brick of sculpy on this head. My classmates then became very concerned about me. I hadn't stoped since one in the afternoon. I also hadn't eaten nor had a bathroom break since eight in the morning that morning.
I was purly running on the pure fun and excitiment. They made me go home, take a break, and have some supper. Walking home my mind was filled of how I can scult this head some more. What tools I could invent to have the textures and shapes I wanted. Even while eating supper I just wanted to work on this thing.
Then I realized two things. The first was my calling. I do believe sculpting is my altime favorite medium to use while creating art. I think I would be happy if i could just create my characters all day long. But I think I'll save that for another date.
I've got many more assignments to worry about.
The other thign I realized was, I think I have a gaint un-tapped pool of talent. I mean it seems like some people can try and try and the results of the final product is good. I can produce something good if I feel like it. However I notice how unbelieveable the amount my work improves when I focus and am into what I am doing. I still can't believe how good this head is and how good some of my life drawings can be.
I know that sounds so cocky but I'm thinking of it as a limit break here. But I also believe I have vast untapped potencial if i believe in myself like that.
I know how much all of you hate it when I mispell things and this post is chalk full of grammer and spelling mistakes. I am using my non-spell checking lappy-tappy so sll of you english anal people can go stick your head in a crannberry jar.
I am now tired an I believe I will hit the hay very soon.
I still plan on posting up a list of all the stories I hope ot create and my christmas wishlist this year so that will be coming sometime soon. A hint as to something I would like this Christmas is displayed below.
I suppose I have been writing this blog a few times just as a way to seek attention. And I would thrive on comments left for me. And I was rather angry in my last post when I filled it so full of awesome and I only got two comments. (boo hoo)
SO I thought I'd punish you all and never post again. Then I realized that I love my blog to much to be stupid like that. So Yay posting :D
I am currently fighting off the extreme want to grab my video game systems and video game for forty hours straight.
I have two things due tomorrow. Okay well not DUE due, but the assignments assigned to us last week are all two week assignments and this week is simply checking our process. So I think I've done enough work on these things. Next week will be full hand in and completed work. Tonight I have done enough and I am seriously needing some sleep. SO I will sleeeeeep!
This weekend I was thinking about girlfriends and how I don't have one, want one, but wouldn't have any time for one. What a horrible cycle.
I was also thinking how this weekend coming up I am stay here in Toronto and my thoughts towards that are; "Yay I'm not going home! I can do so much homework!" And the scary part about it is I probably will do nothing else but homework this weekend.
Tis a ashame that all my time seems to be plotted out when all I reeeeally wanna do is start production on Zombie! I just want Shane to call me up and say. "Alright We have a meeting here where we will discuss this and I need you to have these done by then." And then one thing will lead to another and we'll sell our first video game! But I suppose that's what I'm here for.
I've totally got Cara in on my evil evil plan! Even if she wants to do linguistics she said she's totally into learning about music! I would love her to check out this site because there are other keyboard artists on there and video lessons too. With just a quick Google search it looks like I could find a working keyboard for 100$ or lower. To have a keyboard with some nice customization it seems all I would need would be 200$ 300$ and the best of the best appear to be in the 1500$ to whatever range. Perhaps Dean could also help with the pricing and the finding since he used to play a keyboard once.
Jessica understands stories way more then I know and I love it! I seem to be an endless supply of ideas and key moments in time where Jessica she can take all those home run ideas and characters, refine then with themes and overtones and make something really fleshed out appear! I can't wait until all four of us can sit around a table and really hammer out an entire story that we're all in love with!
I'm actually s little sad. I know that Shane is very busy programming every day, but I never get to see to cool crap he has done anymore. It's all for his business and commission. I know that he is working and it's probably really tough and etc, but I still love it when I can see all of his hard work in action.
I've almost taken an hour typing all this out! Stay Tuned for my Christmas wish list this year and a list on all my stories!
I remembered just exactly how lazy and stupid I was over the weekend and it was like swimming against the current to break that stupid lazy feeling.
I went to extra life yesterday and my stuffed sucked like poo! It's like you went to the zoo and all the animals that were there were monkeys. And all they were doing was sucking their poo, and you spent half an hour there! That's how much my life draws suck like poo.
So I got mad, but since I wasn't mad AT anybody I would say things just below a shout like "GaAAAAAAH!!!" and make pouty faces... and complain to my roommates. Then I vented by cleaning helping my roommates do all of the dishes in the apartment and clean out the kitties litter box. ... Then thoroughly clean there litter box with Mr. Clean. Then scrub my floor then scrub the bath tub, then vacuum my rug, then completely clean my room. Then I started the homework I had due the next day.
So I went to bed at five in the morning and I just couldn't fall asleep. I was like a zombie. Eventually I did, but I had class early so I only got two hours of sleep. And I was not a happy camper. I realized something. If I have a reason to wake up and someone gently shakes me awake and gets me up, I am instantly happy. Mikki slept over Monday night and I told her to wake me up so I could make pancakes for everyone, and being waken up like that was the best wake up ever. On the other hand, if my alarm wakes me up, and I want to sleep, but have to get up, I am a grumpy grumpy pants.
Luckily I knew how to fix it. Black coffee and a plain toasted bagel with herb and garlic cream cheese! IT was like the Sims Three! I gain a plus 100 to mood all day long!
So after a very cheery day I went to Extra life again. And I was instantly pissed off again! I wanted to rip the model's head off! I could feel myself grinding away all my teeth! But I stayed there. Then I talked to people about what the hell I was doing. Then I watch third years draw. Then my stuff started coming out a lot better. And easier too! And my mood lifted once again! I stayed the whole time! At nine there was only four of us left drawing and I was one of them!
Then I came back here and my roommates had made pancakes! Happiness lives inside of pancakes!
Then they showed me an animation book along with some DVD chapter that they stole that accompany the book. This is the book here;
But then they showed me on the DVD that they had animated the cover! It's crazy! Look how freaking well they assembled it!
Geeeeez! Oh yeah! I almost forgot! The guy who animated that and wrote that book also was the guy who make and directed the thief and the cobbler. Actually that movie was halfway finished, went bankrupt and then was sold to a different company who did, in Stephany's opinion, the shitty job making it. But all the weird puzzle stiff and the cool crazy animation was Richard Williams. (Word to the wise, I better be getting that book for Christmas or sooner!) But yeah so after all that I felt so learned. And I can sorta see my stuff improving little by little. I can't wait until it all starts coming together. I think in a way it already has.
Oh a funny thing they said in the DVD there was the expression K.I.S.S. Ever heard of that before? No, not the band. It's suppose to mean; Keep It Simple, Stupid! I lol'd.
Oh, and as I was leaving the school I saw that someone had graffitied this all over a non-smoking sign; I lol'd again.
Two things to check out. Seinfeld plus Batman;
Aaaaaand the second one:
My friend Ben showed them to me. Ben by the way (a second year animation student) pegged me right on the money. I over heard him talking with other people about me and he referred to me as teddy bear. I stopped him and asked how he knew my nick name was Teddy Bear. He said nobody it just suited me.
And now that other people are getting me so spot on I feel happy inside. YAY HAPPY! :>
Not much to say today. I'm kinda upset how when I'm typing these blogs, and when I really get going, I leave out words and or letters of the word. Like intead of saying "Milk is really cool" I get something like "Milk really cool" or "Mlik if real cool". It's kinda been pissing me off lately.
That aside...
A few highlights:
This blog reads like a movie. From an animator's point of view, it's FRIGGING AWESOME! And ninjas so, yeah... awesome.
And a series of short clips put together known as Frederator. It's kinda weird but really cool. I've only watched episode one, but I plan to watch more later.
Yeah today I didn't do much. I started some homework. But tomorrow morning I'm making pancakes! YUM!
Why do I post things up here that I really don't want to share with everyone?
Everyone, unread that last post. I kinda wish blogger would yell at me for the things I post up here and say if they're acceptable or not.
Boo! I shame myself!
In other not stupid news; So yesterday I was thought I'd play video games all day long instead of do homework, because that's just how good I am at doing things like that.
And I was playing a game called fat princess. Weird title I know, but the game is like a gory midevil capture the flag type of deal. Only the flag is the other kingdom's princess and to make it harder for them to carry back, you well... fatten her up. There are like five classes to be, Warrior, Archer, Wizard, Priest, and Worker. And all you have to do to switch between them is grab their hat and toss it on your head.
The class I am best with is the Priest class. All about healing and the upgraded version is all about sucking away health for enemies. It's all pretty addicting and fun.
Then Sasha said there was a random street fighter party starting up stairs at a fellow animator's apartment. So we get there and I know nobody!
100% nobody!
Except like Sasha and the twins. So I sit in the corner(ish) and pet the cat that was there. Then they started playing street fighter. But after 4 or so matches they shut it off. And I'm all like "Huh?" Then they start playing random improve games. Like the games off of who's line is it anyways. It was kinda ridiculous.
I wound up breaking out of my shell and playing party quirks. The game where everybody is going to a party but they're all weird and the host has to guess what they are. I was a youtube video that had to keep stopping for buffering. I wasn't even finished my first sentence when the got mine.
Oh and have you ever wondered what a cat would look like if it was drunk? The cat that I was petting there had a problem with the part of it's brain that controlled it's muscles. So it just stumbles around. It was sad at first but then it was actually pretty friggin funny.
I'm not sure when he first day of autumn is but it sure feels like it's hit. The days are hot and the nights are cold. I can feel the temperature dropping everyday. I'm not sure when I can expect the first snowfall but it shouldn't be for a couple more months. The leaves ont he trees are turning vibrant colours. Soon there won't be any green left at all!
Now it's time for Travis to write about himself again! Put too much information in this tiny little blog and make you all feel rather uncomfortable! Yay!;
My week is now done!! ... Wait what? It's Monday already? That was fast.
Look at my naked people drawings! Looook!!
So this week I spent all my time partying/working. I was doing one or the other all week. It was spirit week at school and I was hanging around being spirit-fulled and awesome. I was also going to insane lengths to do my homework.
I'd stay at school till like nine or ten every night then come home, talk to my roommates about our school work and art, and we'd show each other cool art related cool things then I'd sleep wake up and head back to school to draw until my figures fell off! It's only second... well third week now I suppose... and I am trying way too gosh darn hard!
It's been hard because I get really sad sappy messages from mom every night telling me how much she loves me and misses me. It warms my heart but I have to wonder... why is she sending all these messages?
My goal (since I am a competitive little brother type character) is to obliterate the companionship! I really really really wanna get good so I can be so awesome! I'm not sure if I've started on the right track yet. It's hard with emotions and stuff. You March kids wouldn't understand. In science and math there is only one right answer and you use formulas to get there. But in arts there is like this idea of a right answer and you have to hope that you're imagining it enough to place on the paper.
All I've been thinking about the whole type while I've been doing this is; "I can't wait to be good enough to do so really heavy concept work on my fighting game!", "I can't wait until I'm good enough to really start fleshing out so really good monsters for zombie!", "I can't wait till I have some time to write some in depth story about Gix and Zefer!".
But alas currently I do not... but I will!
I spent all today drawing a skeleton. Easy you say? HA! I was at school for eight hours drawing the damn thing, and it still isn't right. However it was the last thing I had to do before Monday to have all my homework done. Excluding the 30 object drawing, 100 hand draws, extra life photos and cafe draws which I'm suppose to be accumulating before the end of the semester. So me and my roommates partied it up here with Sushi!! YUM! I ate... well not along but a good deal. It was very good. Then we partied some more with two hours of DDR! My legs got tired, but I kept dancing! Then I lost my breath, but I kept dancing! Then I felt like I was gonna puke, but I kept dancing! Then all those problems faded away... and I kept dancing. And Jack now has some weird fascination with my sweaty underwear... weird.
To to commemorate my homework bring done this week, a blog! Yay!
And fun videos we were watching during breaks;
Annnd this is the programmer we all wanted to kick in the head:
(stages 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 here if you're interested.)
One final thing that's been on my mind that still has me smiling, I was trying to decide my element out of fire, earth, water, and wind. And I couldn't do it! There wasn't a clear answer to me. All of other people when I ask them this question they can normally come up with an answer right away but not me! Then I was talking with Emily, a while ago, and she said I was a... oh I can't remember the name, but it meant that I was all four elements. Then I thought about it and I couldn't really pick one for Jessica, Shane or Cara either.
To tell you the truth I think all four of us started with one true element and then through hanging out they all shifted and intertwined! And that was cool to think about. Now if only I could use that in a story...
Let me start off by telling you about how I woke up at five in the morning. Lately Jack has been waking me up at five to come and lick my lips or my nose, which I find extremely irritating. However this morning I woke up at like five-ten for no reason at all I sorta sat up confused. Then Jack bounded from wherever he was hiding to try and lick my lips and nose. No way has he conditioned me to wake up at five in the morning!! Boo!!
I had Layout and Character Design today, which I loved. Oh and I must admit that having a desk again ROCKS!! You in public school, you have a desk for the year and it's yours and you never have to worry about it at all. You can put stuff in it and you're never worried about other people stealing stuff from it? Then in High school you lose your desk but you gain a locker instead. Sure it's not as homely but that's where all your stuff goes. Then in college you completely lose both of those unless you wanna pay money for a locker. Well now I have that desk back! And the awesome college experience that goes with it. I mean I stayed there like until nine with Blake and Dani, (my two new bestest friends.) And we were working (sorta)! It was super great fun times!
Not to mention after classes there was a paper plane throwing contest! I made a paper plane with passengers they looked really silly and I was having fun throwing them around! I didn't win the contest, but I had so much fun! Ahh...
Sadly I must admit that my current mood does not reflect the awesome day I had.
... But it's not important
I know it's not what I should be concentrating on, and I know this feeling will pass...
I think I'll try to sleep this mood away and get excited for silly hat day tomorrow.
Rose made me think about the difference between the few blogs I have posted this year and the once I used to post last year.
Last year was full of stupid stories and me whining a lot about class mates and finding things out. I'd like to tell you why I won't have any stupid class mates stories. That is simply professionalism. Everyone in my class has undergone a huge screen process. Not only that but one something like that is done we each has to pay 3000$ dollars to get here. There is a certain air of professionalism that goes a lot with being here. We're in the big leagues here. None of us here are simple here to dick around. Mind you it's a ton of fun and I'm having a blast hanging out with these people but nobody is going to come here with the same brain dead attitude as people in Art Fundies seemed to posses.
We were actually given a statistic... for everyone of us here in animation this year, there were twelve people looking to be in our spot. there are 44 of us all to getter. That means there were 528 with eyes on our spot and who had the skills to fill it. However we ranked higher then them. The cream on top. I beat 528 people to be where I am this year. It really feels special.
So as stupid stories and silly things happen I will tell you, don't worry one or two of those are bound to show up this year. But I thought I'd answer why these posts and stories are different them last year.
Which one I will share with you.
Today my class started at 2:25 and as 1:55 was upon me I was rushing to dress myself up for school and head out the door. I noticed that my dishes weren't done so I stopped myself. In order to get on good terms with the girls I quickly did my dishes making me almost late for class.
After class I met Sasha who promptly yelled at me for not closing the screen door before I left and threaten that a burglar would rape me... But I did the dishes! Just couldn't win.
My roomates have found out Jack's favorite game. As soon as you open the refrigerator he like to hop in, climb past everything to the very back, and then stare at you.... Sam has opted to grab him and throw him on the couch every time he does it. Jack must thing it's a hoot because he's done it like five times now.
Other then that my throat is reeeally sore. This cold has gone straight to my head. My head is heavy and I am looking forward to sleep.
My thoughts recently have drifted towards a particular video game which I have told you all about countless times I'm sure.
It's the game I've been dreaming up where there is a bunch of people fighting for the light of a shinning star in order to complete their individual goals. So by thinking about this I started analyzing fighting games a little bit. My room mates actually love games like mortal combat and those one on one fighters, but they weren't to interested in Brawl.
So I was thinking that maybe SSB Brawl is a little to free and simple. I mean each characters have three jumps and they only attack by combining positions of the joy stick and two buttons. Not to hard to figure out.
On the other hand all of the other fighting games have way to hard of fighting styles where you have to do some serious research to be any good at all at them. Like they start of with four buttons to push. One attack via kick, the other punch, another blocks, and the last one does some sort of magic deal right? Seems simpler then Brawl on the surface, but if you look further you'll see all the crazy cool combos that you could never hope to master this month. But the computer can push them off and will to kick the crap out of you. Oh and to make it even better the twelve button combos are different for every character. That and those games are always so, soooo, sooo... blocky. I mean it's like fighting with cider blocks for hand and feet.
One other thing I've noticed with fighting games is that the story is bloody confusing. Such as Soul Caliber. What the heck is happening there? No body knows! Dissidia is the same way, characters will be talking about each other in one cut scene but in the next story arc they never heard of them and actually never meet them! BOO! The time lines look more like a tree.
So I think I would like to establish a game that has a little bit more complex moves but nothing more then a three to two button combo and a little more controlled in terms of movement. But still have it easy to pick up and a more natural fluid feel. Plus in this game the story and the game play go side by side. Instead of an after thought which most of these game's story lines are. Now to get really good at concept art... :)
In other news my throat is all sore, I'm pretty such Steph gave me her cold! *cough cough* Plus I gave my kitties flea baths and flea collars. Jack has a white one with a sliver reflective strip one it. And Shadow's is a bright purple. I think both of them suit the kitties smashingly.
Bed now, I have class at 2:30 pm tomorrow... awesome.
Today I woke up and was going to follow the plan I set out for myself. I was going to go to the vet and pick up flea meds for the kitties and then go buy myself groceries at the ghetto mart.
I got all dressed and ready to go and then a thought washed over me. I had recently spend a large portion of money on an animation disk, desk, text book, and 200$ on a life drawing fee. Unsure of my bank balance and not liking see my saving plumt so increadiably fast I decided not to go out.
Instead I opted to play Dissdia all day! Hurray! And MAN did I ever get into it! I love what they did with all the characters, trying to give them classes and what not. In particular Cecil.
In this Game you have brave points (which is basically your attack power) and a health bar with two different types of attacks. Brave attacks which steals enemies brave points and adds them to your own, and Hp damage attack. Both of those have their own set for ground and areil attacks.
The cool part about Cecil is that if you do an HP attack on the ground he turns into his dark knight, but if you do an hp attack in the air he becomes a paladin!
It's way too awesome!
And I need to beat FF5 and figure out who the heck Exdeath is, because all I know from the game so far is that he's a big wad of JERK!
So my favorite characters so far to play as are Cecil and Firion. They're both really cool! Titus and Cloud... they're not my favorites. (If you have no idea who Firion is he's from Final Fantasy 2)
He's all distance/ground attacks. Too bad none of you will play this game. It's friggin great!
Holy crap, this feels like everything I've ever wanted.
I think somebody has slipped me something. Some sort of outgoing pill or something like that.
Today has just been full of laughs and talking and knowledge. I feel completely fine with yelling at the people I've just met a couple of days ago and waving like an idiot to them. I sit down with them and we joke and talk and laugh like we were just getting back from summer vaction and I've knowen them for years.
Not to mention how much I am soaking everything in! I am a spunge! I want to know it all! And I want to know it all now!
It's gotta be the enviornment. I'm in animation bitches! Ah ha ha ha. It really is getting me excitied for when me and Shane start our studio! I mean, creating games, me having the art know how and Shane being able to create anything via programming. If I could just hook Jessica on board with writing and really turn Cara on persuing music. If we could get the four of us working together I kow that we could make anything we put our minds to. I just have to get my enthusiasum for this studip to spread and breathe motavation into my siblings. We're so gifted! I know we could take this place by storm!
I'm feelin particaulary pumped because I just came from an extremely successful life drawing class. My stuff yesterday was crap, but today i was really starting to shine! I can't wait to go tomorrow and all next week and for the next three years to really hone this craft down!
I have this goal to be the most successful in all first year animation students in order to do that I've gotta learn as much as I can and learn as much as I can too! Just try as hard as I can!
Gwaaah I can't wait! :D I'm gonna explode!
Everyone of you better jump on this bandwagon with me! That encludes you too Rick and Rose! Waaaah, yeah!
ack woke me up at three in the morning just to fart in my face. Boo.
Besides that I am oddly energized and haven't been feeling sleepy even though I've had completely full days. I walked back and forth to school three times today. First was for my first class but it let out early so I wanted lunch and came back here. Second was for my next class then that got out a little early too so I came back here and did my homework that's due next week. I'm keeping myself ahead of the game. Hurray! Thrid was when me and Sasha went to extra life. On Tuesday I went to life drawing class and I was on fire! Man I really had it. Tonight I went to Extra life drawing and I suuucked! Boy did I ever suck I think Yesterday was beginner's luck! Phew!
I was also hanging out with Blake today at extra life and I don't know what I was doing but he was seriously busting a gut over the conversations me and Mikki were having. I'm funny I suuupose.
So I made Sam and Steph tell to me lots today about how to draw and people's bones. It was very informative. Then we played DDR again! Sweet deal!
Oh and Shadow accidently got locked in Sam and Steph's room for the majority of the day today.
I must admit I'm really happy. I don't think I could of asked for three better room mates. Sasha is really into adult cartoons and alein and dark criptic things like that, and we where joking today about how I'm so into light hearted cute things and disney. We're like total opposites! It's so awesome! I hope I can turn that into something someday.
I am starting to get really busy! I am truly having a blast though!
Wholy crap!? Why is it one in the morning already?!
Well bawls!
Alright today was a day of friendship, I was trying my darnest to befriend as many people as possible.
We started up a group of five, Kalvan, Dani, Shawn, Blake and me! Hurray! There were two hour inbetween when we had to do stuff so us five sat around the cafe tables and tried our best to become friends with each other.
I think I was successful.
And yes I had already made a list of people I wanted to befriend and have achivied every single one of them today except one.
Blake reminds me of a much more apathetic Duck, Dani has curly hair like Cara, Kalvan I think was the villain or something like that on shakes on a plane, and Shawn was a very short indian(?) kid. They're all awesome.
Mikki made me be friends with Blake right off the back and Sasha introduced me to Kalvan and Craig (whom is not part of the original five).
Other kids I lerant the names of today was Adrian, Laura (although I can't remember her face), Mike, Adam... aaand that just about does it. Tomorrow I have to get up at seven so I don't even know why I'm typing this late.
For lunch today I had a cup of veggies. It had two cherry tomoatos. I ate them... they went 'pop' in my mouth. How odd.
The kitties have gone crazy! They've beeen running around like mad all day today. I have no idea why! They'll have like 100% energy one second then the next they would just crash and you could drag them across the floor without them having the strenght to get back up. I have learnt of what a cat nap truly is! They also tried to steal my Pizza Chiken but I defended my meal! Here here!
I also was super excited to play Dissidia today, but the second I tried my PSP wouldn't let me! I tried very hard but it said 'no' so I cried... lots. No actually I had to reprogram the router so that it had the correct output. My PSP was hacked so I had to unhack it which took me forever to figure out a way to do that with killing it. I found one, however I miss extra life drawing and most of my night so I've only gotten a taste of it, and let me tell you that the Warrior of Light sounds so full of himself! Geepers Creapers!
After I played the tutorial the first thing I did was unlock Onion Knight's custume change to make him look like Lunith. Hurray! I was upset at first because he still looked like an Onion Knight, but then I realized it was Lunith dressed as an Onion Knight, and I squeeeeeeed!
The opening fight video has so much amazing in it I pee my pants. But I wasn't able to do more then that.
I wanted to do something else... but what was it... Oooooh geez. Um... Crap I have forgotten.
Well I will inform you all of more tomorrow. Peace ~Out
Hello all! I am now re-opening my blog for my school season! Yay! (tiny amounts of applase!)
So I am doing this to share my stories of what I'm doing to friends and family alike.
Let me start of with this. I am exausted! the first day of school hasn't even started yet and I am plum tuckered! yesterday started with lunch with Emily as a final farewell before we both head out for the school season, after banana muffins were cooked and hartily enjoyed I was whisked off to Sarnia with Thomson, as my final day of summer and living in Petrolia was drawing to a close.
I had packed nothing and I had two little kittens to pick up. Thats right I finally am living with two kitties; Jack and Shadow. A few hours in Sarnia and me and Thomson and Cara were on our way to pick up the little bundle of joy! Glee!
Unfortunatly we had an acident first. Close to head on colision and I was the one most at risk. We were all fine in the end which is what really matters in those situations. A little shaky Laurissa let me pick up the kitties and I went home and packed.
Packed, cleaned, tidyed... anywho it took till like one or tow in the morning to completely finish. Then I watched a movie with Cara and jessica as a final farewell deal before I left. I passed out at thrre and woke up and five... wait no four... ah I don't know. Shortly after we loaded up the truck and headed to Toronto. I unpacked saw what an awesome job Sasha did furnishing a decorating the place then proceeded to hang out with my three new room mates. Quickly to discover that they had picked up fleas! %$*&&$!!! So I bathed both of them. Shadow was tame but still expressed her dislike of the whole event and Jack would not have it. i bathed them with dish soap.
After inspecting their skin I noticed that all the flea were motionless and I could pick off. after about half an hour they all seem re-animated much to my discust. I will have to pick stuff up for that.
I DDRed today to try myself further stayed up this late. i must admit I am nervous about the whole animation thing starting up already... I hope i can do this.
On a positive note Jack and Shaodw's fur is extremely soft thanks to my bath.
I am tired and spell check is not working and a more proper blog will be posted tomorrow, good night all!
I know I said I wasn't going to blog again until I went back to school this fall buuut... Well evidently I couldn't resist!
Summer is going great I never thought my time you be spent so thoroughly! I am quite busy ushering and bar tending down at the VPP and my friends and family seem to do a good job of filling my extra down time. Not that I mind of course.
I am blogging at such a horrendous time of night because I drank a Jolt Cola at midnight last night and well sleep has successfully avoided me!
Quick Lists! Games I am playing; - Sims 3 - Majora's Mask - Patapon - Fallout 3 - Super Smash Brothers Brawl! (when am I not?!) - Final Fantasy 2 - Mega Man 3
People I see a lot of; - Jessica - Mom - Laurisa - Emily - Becky - Dylan - Cara - Nathan - Ashley
Food I eat too much of; - Chili Combo from Tim Horton's - Assorted Sub from Subway - Pizza Sub from Godfather's - Poutian from Petrolia Pizzas and Subs - Mostly anything from streets! - Ice Cream - Chocolate Bars
Odd things I've noticed about myself; - I blow my hair up when I am frustrated - My facial hair grows in faster - My hair is unmanageable - I will sleep in if I can, even if I'm not tired - I am a space cadet - I absentmindedly provoke my tooth aches - I pull out my beard hair when I am bored - I give myself hangnails - I randomly become annoyed with my mother for no reason at all - From the 3/4 view of the back of my head the only facial feature you can see on me is my nose and it's huge!
Colours I like; - Lime Green - Chocolate Brown - Banana Yellow - Cotton Candy Pink - Silk Black - Bright Copper
Goals I am failing at; - Drawing 1 picture everyday - Drawing Rose's Picture of her and Shane - Making a Game with Shane - Drawing concept pictures for a game me and Shane are working on - Making a Game with Jessica - Lose weight - Finish Writing my book 'waiting' (irony!) - Reading the Book Emily told me to read - Reading the Book Dylan told me to read - Reading the Book Mom told me to read - Cleaning my room - Saving my money - Keep a proper bed schedule! - Making a manga/comic book with Travis Thomson - Making my own manga by myself - Building Shelves for my new apartment - Figuring out the games for VBS
Hurm didn't realize how lengthy that list was... perhaps I need a kick in the bum to get me started... but where to start?
Anyways that's all not why I wanted to blog this evening... (morning?) I slayed up this late watching silly Japanese videos of video game music they are awesome. Enjoy them.
This one is gaaaaaaaaaaaay with emphases on the GAaaaAAAaaaAAy horrible gayness... but catchy:
Now I have stuffed you full of blogging garbage and you have barfed it all over and will not be able to stomach other post from me until fall!
Hey there happy blog followers. Seems I have not been updating very often as of late. Oops. It's almost the end of my first school year in Toronto and I thought it would be appropriate if I did one last blog before I temporarily gave up my blogging for this term. I will resume again in August when I am back up here in Toronto wishing I was home.
I've been pretty busy doing homework, but also trying to utilize the last of my high speed internet I can before I have to say good bye to it and go back to dial up at home.
Some one the things I've been doing is playing Little Big Planet, Watching Shugo Chara!, trying to figure out how to program RPG maker VX with Ruby, Downloaded Mario RPG and general facebooking.
before I go into more detail about what I've been up to recently I realize I haven't finished informing you about me and Emily's last day in Montreal on Valentines weekend. Which is a pretty big cliffhanger if you ask me. I think I've forgotten more of it but I'll try to retell what I can.
Abandon Ship
The last day in Montreal, Sunday was the day me and Emily promised each other that we'd wake up early. As far as I can remember... we didn't we still slept in more then either of us would of liked to. Oh well energy is energy. There were some museums in the area that we were thinking of visiting, but we got up early enough that none of them was open yet. We found a Titanic Exhibit and Emily seemed excited to see it. So we went in and decided to see what we could. We each got a passenger card. Which had the name of a person aboard titanic. I was a rich 2nd class passenger; Mr. Percey. Emily was an ill mother of two young children and boy and a girl. She also had a husband. She was a third class passenger.
There was an excellent lighting job and matching music to each objects and information displayed. I decided that I would read everything so it took us a while to walk through it all.
We finally got to the end and each of us got unhappy endings. My guy died and Emily's lady had survived with her husband, but she found that both of her children had died.
That sorta put a damper on the morning. For some reason we stayed int he mall for a while and it took me and ridiculous about of time to choose a restaurant to eat at in the food court. After that our room mates Nicole and Nick joined us and Nicole and Emily went shopping. I think Emily bought a dress she plans to wear when the weather is warmer. I wanted to find a hat or and belt or something like that but I couldn't find anything like that. But suddenly I was stuck by the most un-comfortable 'I gotta go potty' feeling I've ever had in my life. So we went back to the mall and found a wash room.
And for some reason we stayed there for long time and Emily was getting irritated. So we left and decided to head back to the hotel. Only our lunch in food court hadn't been very filling and it had been likes five of six hours since we ate last, so we spotted a Tim Horton and decided to have lunch there. Which was a terrible idea. Emily got a Egg salad sandwich and I got a bagel with cream cheese. Only since neither or us speak French as a second language, our order got extremely messed up. Emily got her sandwich right but they had forgotten to charge us for our drinks and they got the type of cream cheese I wanted wrong. So since there line behind us was moving we waited to order drinks and decided to eat what we had been given.
I remember just as I was commented on how good Emily's sandwich looked and was thinking of ordering one myself Emily notices that she's bleeding and pulls a screw from the sandwich... Both of us upset got and talk to the people. Their manager isn't in so the lady 'fake' calls them and says the only thing that they can do is give us a new sandwich... To what find another screw in? No thank you.
Now that the end of the trip had been wonderfully spoiled, I bought some cookies and chips and we hid in our hotel room and watched tv. Nicole and Nick came back and we all properly discussed they days events while getting drunk.
The next day before we left we all went and enjoyed creapes and I bought my Cloud action figure. Then a very long bus ride later we all wound up in Toronto. Ending our trip entirely.
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So I've also been doing homework and if you recall. You all voted that I do my sculpture on Alex. So I did and now I've got pictures to share.
Tah Dah! Alexi! Isn't his eye's scary? I had to think up a visual reason for those sun glasses. So I made his eyes scarier beyond compare! Yippee. When I brought this in to show everyone the teacher loved the cape. :D that made me smile. I spent more then 12 hours straight working on this guy so it had better look good! I made the clothes myself too. Well of course I didn't sow it. I hot glued it. Which is to extremely uncomfortable to wear I'm sure. But I did it in a way where I hid the seams and there isn't hot glue on the clothes in sight! *pats own back*
So he took a fair bit of work. I build wire frame on him, then I wrapped him up in tin foil to bulk it out, then I built a basic version of him, then cooked that and chopped off his limbs then I detailed each limb, hair, face, and body. Then after that I painted it all up then after that I glued his clothes on and glued his limbs back together in one fowl swoop. Then I built him some tiny sunglasses and his cape! Hurrah!
That stand he's standing on is a bounce dryer sheet box filled with rice and black construction paper all over it.
Oh other story of mine. I decided when I got back up here from my Easter weekend at home I cook myself some stir-fry. I know, I know I don't know what told me to do it. Usually I'm pretty good at sticking to my pre-made meals and don't venture into the art of cooking, but I guess I needed to remind myself that I can't cook.
This time it was chicken stir-fry with chicken, rice and various vegetables mixed it. I stared off de-thawing the chicken by letting it sit out on the counter. After an hour of it sitting there I was disappointed to find that it was indeed still a brick of frozen chicken. Quickly wanting a meal I then by-passed the thawing stage and moved straight to the cooking stage. I began to fry my frozen chicken breasts in a frying pan before mixing other things in. This reminded me that I should cook the rice and cook the frozen veggies as well. So I threw it all into a pot and set it to boil. The chicken was being very stubborn and was not thawing for me in my heated frying pan. SO to speed up the process, as soon as a bit became soft enough to cut through, I did, and proceded to make chicken chunks.
This took a very long time to do. But I eventually got my frying pan full of chicken chunks. Then I remember when Emily made a stir-fry for us (of which this dish was inspired from) she put sauce in which the meat to let it soak up flavor. Feeling that my chick bout wasn't over yet I proceeded in doing so. This took a great deal longer then I thought. By the time the puddle of sauce was now into my chicken chunks and smelling wonderfully I remembered the rice. It and the veggies where still in the water boiling away. So I grabbed a strainer and dumped the load in...
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No water was strained out. Not a drop. It had a been absorbed by some very fat soggy rice. Thinking I could fix this problem by boiling the water out of the rice I threw the concoction in with my chicken chucks and put the temperature as high as it could go. After a bit it began smelling... not appetizing at all, so I then grabbed some more sauce and doused the mix in. After one and a half hours of stirring this mess in a frying pan the dish was not fixed, the rice did not calm down and now my delicious chicken chunks where hopelessly lost in the pile of goo. Which had turned gray for a reason i do not know.
Moaning the loss of my chicken chunks and my entire meal, I sucked it up and sat down to my very gross meal. As I was scooping a plate full I realized that I probably had enough of this stuff to last me all week. And now I am out of barbecue sauce, the only way to smother this dish with to make it editable.
So let me reiterate this last part for you. I cannot cook.
Thea has moved out now, she left on Saturday morning. I was sleeping in. It's what I'm good at. And all week end I've had this tugging feeling to make something. But every time I try to create an RPG or scribble down some pictures or try writing something I cannot do very much of it. I have to stop. I've been feeling this agitated way all weekend and have not been able to shake it for five days.
I am excited to go home.
Something else has been on my mind
And a tiny poem I made up.
"You do know that I would… It means everything. Proud of the open air, somehow now feels stifled. Words stay in the throat and distance creeps between the hands. Swallowing down darkness, wishes ride on a vow. Speech always came so easily, why not now?
