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! :>
