Drums was traumatizing. It’s been a long time since it was traumatizing, but the class was a whole new level of insanity.
Instead of learning Class A Love Affair by Great Spy Experiment, my first song to learn was Smooth by Santana… T.T While it was horribly difficult to play, it also managed to sound simply amazing. I spent some time at night making the score easier to read… I despise photocopies as much as some people despise leaving the last few drops in a coke bottle.
First class of my third year turns out to be 3D character animation. While I had my reservations about the course, they all quickly cleared as I found Melanie to be a really awesome professor (this opinion further solidified by the pre-rigged models she’s getting us to work with). Our assignment seems simple enough. Creating one emotional pose. And the bouncing ball exercise. =.= Ah… 2 years of bouncing balls. Agreed, the principles governing the bouncing ball theory stretches far into the foundations that is animation. And I’ve used it’s principles many times.
Ah well…
I forgot what I was talking about.
Had a pretty lousy night’s sleep. Been having pretty lousy nights recently. Too much stuff pirouetting in my mind like mechanical ballerinas in steel tutus. I’ve started afresh on my private project. More character designs. More details. More work. I should get started modeling it soon before I run out of time for rigging and animating. And I also need to find someone to teach me how to skin my character properly. =/ Online manuals are driving me crazy…
