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The Fellowship and Two Towers showing on Friday was fantastic.
Saturday, I skipped SUN to go to a group animation meeting. Each of us is supposed to be presenting a story for production. If we were on schedule, we would be finalizing 3D character designs. We're not. At any rate, when my turn rolled around, the group helped me beat my story into some sort of shape. I knew the characters, I knew the setting, I knew the conflict, I knew a couple of the gags, and I knew the pay-off. What I didn't know was the beginning and the how to keep it from being mean. Now, I have a much better idea of how it all works, and I should have most of my storyboards ready for the next meeting in three weeks.
And I spoke with my friend at Oops. They have my demo reel, they have not looked at it, BUT my cover letter and resume have been evaluated. The boss is looking forward to getting my disk of Flash stuff, which he should be getting today. I should call on Thursday. Not hiring right now, but it sounds like he might be within the next couple of months, so I should be persistent.
Afterward, I headed out rather randomly. I got some lovely amethyst seed beads, the realized I better head home soon, 'cause someone cut my strings and I was about to fall over. When I did fall over, it was about four hours before I got back up.
Sunday was busy. Archery, Terpsichory dance practice, and then dinner with my brother. I was shooting poor for scores (not that we were shooting for score), but my groupings are really getting better. Dance practice reminded me why I play the fiddle instead of dancing. The hoppy dances - and we do a lot of hoppy dances - are pure pain on my arches. My ankles were complaining, too, but strengthening them would take care of that. The arches, though, that's not going away. A year of four days a week ballet proved that.
Sunday was also my brother's birthday. We had dinner at Timberlodge, and chatted for quite a while. I also bought the tickets for Return of the King for Wed. night. A whole group of us are going, and hopefully this bit of pre-planning will save us lots of time on Wed.
Today, though, just keeps dragging on. I'm not sure what I'm going to so when I get off work. I should draw, or animate, or storyboard, but I probably won't. I will be seeing Two Towers in the theatre tonight, so it will be late by the time I get to bed. Maybe I'll dig up a Maya tutorial and work through that - learn something new, limited time & duration, possibly be useful for a future animation.
Just realized I can't send out any more demo reels - I only have one left, and I need it to dub out more. Time to buy more hardware, or disconnect my VCR and take it over to my brother's and dub it out there.
Saturday, I skipped SUN to go to a group animation meeting. Each of us is supposed to be presenting a story for production. If we were on schedule, we would be finalizing 3D character designs. We're not. At any rate, when my turn rolled around, the group helped me beat my story into some sort of shape. I knew the characters, I knew the setting, I knew the conflict, I knew a couple of the gags, and I knew the pay-off. What I didn't know was the beginning and the how to keep it from being mean. Now, I have a much better idea of how it all works, and I should have most of my storyboards ready for the next meeting in three weeks.
And I spoke with my friend at Oops. They have my demo reel, they have not looked at it, BUT my cover letter and resume have been evaluated. The boss is looking forward to getting my disk of Flash stuff, which he should be getting today. I should call on Thursday. Not hiring right now, but it sounds like he might be within the next couple of months, so I should be persistent.
Afterward, I headed out rather randomly. I got some lovely amethyst seed beads, the realized I better head home soon, 'cause someone cut my strings and I was about to fall over. When I did fall over, it was about four hours before I got back up.
Sunday was busy. Archery, Terpsichory dance practice, and then dinner with my brother. I was shooting poor for scores (not that we were shooting for score), but my groupings are really getting better. Dance practice reminded me why I play the fiddle instead of dancing. The hoppy dances - and we do a lot of hoppy dances - are pure pain on my arches. My ankles were complaining, too, but strengthening them would take care of that. The arches, though, that's not going away. A year of four days a week ballet proved that.
Sunday was also my brother's birthday. We had dinner at Timberlodge, and chatted for quite a while. I also bought the tickets for Return of the King for Wed. night. A whole group of us are going, and hopefully this bit of pre-planning will save us lots of time on Wed.
Today, though, just keeps dragging on. I'm not sure what I'm going to so when I get off work. I should draw, or animate, or storyboard, but I probably won't. I will be seeing Two Towers in the theatre tonight, so it will be late by the time I get to bed. Maybe I'll dig up a Maya tutorial and work through that - learn something new, limited time & duration, possibly be useful for a future animation.
Just realized I can't send out any more demo reels - I only have one left, and I need it to dub out more. Time to buy more hardware, or disconnect my VCR and take it over to my brother's and dub it out there.
