Something creative

Sorry for those that follow my wordpress, now that I don’t have anymore art classes I don’t have much artwork to post.

The following Youtube Video is a Preview of a project I’m currently working on for a group of friends of mine. It’s still a work in progress and the video itself is super low quality because I’m lazy. However it’s a pretty good look at something I can do with animation. I’m quite a novice and I had to relearn much of the program by going through my notes from a year ago but its worth it so far.

I will work with another friend of mine to finish this Logo project probably next week but I can’t give any promises as we are both with plenty of school work.

In any case, Enjoy!

Ending

Loads of my problems will be ending tomorrow for better or for worse.

I hope I studied enough and hope that my projects are acceptable.

Good Night.

 

Can’t Wait for the End of School

…because if I didn’t have Projects to work on and Finals to study for I would be working on Finalizing this website to perfection!

I’m pretty upset at the poor quality it’s currently is at the moment. More than half of the pages are incomplete, some projects are completed but not up on the site yet, navigation is still difficult (I want to make a “site map” page), and there seems to be so much I can do to make this better.

I have to write my Case Study for Digital Imaging today so I can work on my Final Presentation for Digital Video on Sunday.

I’ll be getting back to that now.

 

Priorities

This weekend was hectic…
Well in my mind it was.

I’ve been feeling the stress from loosing a week (note April 13th’s post) and I had to deal with it by abandoning some work to get other work done.

Picking what’s top priority made me crazy! 😦 I had to put aside one homework to get the majority of my homework done. (I chose to get Digital Imaging: Collage and Digital Video: Music Video Storyboarding over Voice and Diction: Assignment.4 [Documentary].) I still have 3D animation to get done, too.

Collage was pretty much completed on Monday; I worked on my Final’s Storyboard on Friday, and it wasn’t actually finished but I was able to get a lot of detailed work into planning half the song and I have beautiful messy notes on my lyrics paper.

I did work on my Voice and Diction Documentary Paper but I only got some research done. I printed many pages of information, but I still have to personally look up the information in the information. (What I mean is, to check the info and links in the [for example] wiki page and double-check/prove the information with a true source.) This is all I had even though it is due today, however, my professor is giving me some time to present it. (She’s wonderful!)

 I still need my ‘solid sources’ and probably getting ‘index card notes’ done before working on the paper itself… and even then… IT HAS TO BE DONE BY THURSDAY. Q_Q

My current schedule:
Never any time on Monday (Classes all day)
Got meetings on Tuesday with Branca (Mentor) and then Suzette (Classmate [Dance Class Practice for Wed’s Performance]) {Maybe fit in some 3D Animation Homework of “make a ball bounce”}
Wednesday I have to be in the theater at 10:30/10:45 ish for the 11:00 Dance Class Performance; Complete 3D animation homework {and MAYBE get started on my Documentary}; 3D animation class at 6:30 at Peekskill (leave house at 5/5:30)
OH LOOK IT’S ALREADY THURSDAY. *cries*

There’s STILL no time to get my Documentary done! OTL

I’m so dead tired already…
Who ever may read this: wish me luck!

Thanks.

3D Batch Rendering

3 hours and 30 minutes left to render (according to the estimate of 3 minutes per frame and 66 frames left.)

The sound of my computer is *whiiirrrr whhhhhhh…. whiiiiirrrrrr* And then it quites down when it gets ready to do the next frames.

Sounds like the spinning Hard Drive I think.

HEY DOYLE TEXT ME. I’m sure you have no idea how to get started with batch rendering and class is tonight! In total my rendering time was from 4 am to probably 3 pm. That’s 11 hours-ish. You don’t have that kind of time bro. You should get started ASAP.

Collage Get

I just posted my first (and currently only idea) for my Collage Project of Digital Imaging.

So far things have been ok. It has just been a hassle to keep up with homework since my jet-lag from three weeks ago has residual effects on me. I just got my Voice and Diction homework done at 5 or 6 am last night (a.k.a. this morning). That’s beautifully done and over with. (100pt YAY ^w^) ….

[Warning: Remembered something totally important…]
OH GOSH I have to get my 3D animation thing done!!! It has to be FULLY RENDERED by Wednesday! (because its super rendering time I HAVE to be able to render it tonight and thus LOCKING my computer all evening and night! 
(no minecraft, no skype, no league of legends… :C  sad face….) DS games to the rescue!!

And I must keep in mind that next week is the last day for my classes! The LAST CHANCE week! Danger, danger!

And besides getting homework done… I have to get my resume made! There’s one internship that I’m aiming for at BTX as a graphic designer. They were at career and transfer day at school … last month was it? I have to get it sent before April is done! :S

4-16 DI

apparently collage draft was due today

and Cubism should be pretty much finished and presentable.

=-=;; zzz

I’m still dead head.

Hope I get to lay low…

Tired; haven’t been eating well/waking up well. Still very affected by jetlag.

There was a death in the family and my mom and I flew out for about 5 days but its a 14 hour planeride there and 12 hours back. My brain is in a dying state and everything is taking twice or three times as long to get started or done.

Barely touched Cubism; wrote a bit of a layout for Digital Video Final (Promo might have some trouble); and 3D animation I haven’t touched and I don’t think I heard yet from the professor about what was covered in class (I’ll check dropbox later).

Limited Time: Free DAZ 3D Software! [Expires 3/30]

I LOVE networking! I mean.. people are AWESOME!!

A new friend of mine through a Minecraft Server just told me about A 3D Modeling Software Program that’s doing a promotion by letting the public get their programs free for a limited time only!

The following link goes directly to the Download Page:

www.daz3d.com/i/3d/free-3d-software-overview?home_h_btn=start

DAZ Studio Pro, Bryce 7 Pro, and Hexagon 2.5

According to my buddy Mukr, “DAZ is for posing,  Bryce is environment,  Hexagon is modeling.”

SO apparently its NOT actually ANIMATION but it definitely something to get started with since it’s FREE REAL STUFF

YUS

I’ll be back later I need to make sure I can hold these programs in my computer! [thank goodness my PC is fairly knew and i had Heavy Artistry Programs in mind!]

[EDIT]

As I’m going about downloading this I’m posting the following information:
“Free products require a newsletter subscription.”

You need to make an account/Register with DAZ 3D [for the newsletter and for buying the free programs because its a “online shop” system]
I used my “Spam/Registering” Email that I never use except to sign up for these things, since I don’t want to be spammed NewsLetter Information on my main email. Teehee

Note I did NOT need to give them a Billing Address because the computer noticed there was no charge.
The following is what I saw as my Checkout Page

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There was no charge for this order.

Your order has been placed. You should receive an email confirmation of your order.

Downloads are available in your account profile.

To view details about your order and it status, visit your order details page.

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[The underlined are links on the page but I won’t let you link to MY account profile haha]

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Under Available Downloads in your profile it gives you a list of Download links.
The following is how it is organized:

File Name

PC/ Mac

Product Name

Last Update

Last D/L

Download Expiration

Tries Left

Size

The File || Whether the particular download is for PC or Mac [You get a choice or if you have both I guess you can chose both too!] || What product this File falls under [since the three software have separate pieces included in their download] || I guess Last Update means how recently they modified the program you’re getting || The last time you’ve downloaded it (It says Never on mine since i haven’t downloaded it yet) || THERE IS AN EXPIRATION DATE – DOWNLOAD IT ASAP [Expires MARCH 30TH!!] || You can only download it 4 times! if it failed once you get three more shots at it! || Size of the download

There are apparently 15 separate things to download. [one thing of Hex, 4 things of Bryce and 10 things of DAZ — and even then i can cut that number to 7 because 3 items are repeats due to the availability of 32bit vs 64 bit]
largest download size of one file is 675 MB [“Bryce 7 Content”]

Apparently I’m downloading 1 952.6 MB total (minus a bit as explained by the above 3 extra items.)

a.k.a. about 2GB … I guess this sounds right. as I’m downloading .exe files.
The longest download is taking about 16 minutes and it’s the largest file, “Bryce 7 Content”

BE GENTLE TO YOUR PC WHEN DOWNLOADING THE BIGGER ONES LOL.
I almost crashed my PC by doing 6 things at once and having 10 tabs open on my Firefox har har. I waited patiently as my PC lagged and I used Task Manager and killed FireFox. Everything was fine over time! No worries 😉 [note that bringing firefox back allowed the downloads that were interrupted to start again. However the Available Downloads counts the redownload as a second try for Bryce 7 Pro. Interesting.]

Maybe I’ll update this post some more when I get to the point of installing the programs.

Good night 🙂

Nest Item

Professor Krikun showed the class what a nested sequence was at the start of class but later she was able to help me by applying it to my work!

What I wanted to do was to make sure that a set of clips I compiled would stay together. I thought of the linking option first as videos are locked to their original audio. However what I actually wanted was to make the set of clips into a Nested Sequence. After converting the selected clips and going to Sequence>Nest Items it asked what I wanted to name the Nest and then created the new sequence in my bin tabs [the tabs of the upper left fcp window].

Master Sequence:

Nested Sequence:

I can reach the nested sequence by clicking it in the bin tab or by double clicking the nested sequence and it opens up.

Beautiful! I love it ❤