i was cleaning my room and found film filter samples….. oops.

1. Speak up in your own crits.  You have eyes and opinions, suggestions, etc.  SPEAK.   Lord knows your prof won’t say anything helpful.

2.  Don’t use mental ray physical sun & sky.  Its easily spotted and you can create your own lighting that honestly can look better.

3.  for fuck’s sake blur your shadows.

4. A little bit more effort into the shaders please.  -1o for every shader with no bump/displacement/layers/thought

5.  ANIMATION.  no one had nice secondary animation.  Everyone should have video taped themselves moving to try and get better animation results.  RESEARCH!  thats how you get better.

6.  APPROXIMATION EDITER/SUBDIV SCHEME!

7.  Camera cuts!

i hate them.

total laps this term:         1862

yards per lap:                       50

total yards :                   93 100

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total miles:                           52.8

somehow, i’ve become busy.

At work we got a job creating animations for a bank.  Its a horrible job, way too much work and super boring.  But, its boring enough that they give me sections to animate.   The client fails to realize that they aren’t paying us enough or have given us enough time to be as picky as they are.
Mostly, i enjoy sitting and listening to people in the office talk about it.  Imitations of what the mascot would sound like (or speculation on what he’s really doing in the animations).  Brainstorming on what tacky animation to put into each frame (“Curt if i count your section and there are any less than 50 sparkles and 2 lens flares you have to re do it!”).  And name calling of the client (too dirty to repeat here).  And yes, i used my first lens flare. (it was a background and i was ordered to.  Did you know after effects has a list of about 15 different lens flares?)

So i stayed late working, went swimming, then found out i needed to bake cookies for tomorrow.   So i some how juggled making 2 types of cookies, washing dishes, and making lunch for tomorrow.

Lunch came out looking so good i hope they don’t offer to buy me lunch again.  (cous cous with veggies and i used gypsy soup-like spices…. mmmm).

Funny how a little bit of shitty work makes me super happy.  :)

i thought i’d share with you what i’ve done with my old oatmeal containers.  Tacky and weird but i was always worried of the rice or beans spilling everywhere.  Problem solved.