Almost at the end

I'm squished and mushed so much right now I can't believe I haven't gone to bed 2 nights in a row. That hasn't happened since college... and that first weekend when the preordered Dragon Age Origins arrives. I'll properly update this blog after production diary and all the other volunteer is done... tonight.

Some screenshots of stuff that's since changed, but looks kind of cool back then:

And how they look like now:

There is a Fushia dinosaur in one of the boxes that no one will ever see, but I know it's there. It's stupid, but funny.

Group Project thought

Working in a group project is like being a piece of bacon that's being pulled towards different direction at the same time by several doggies, since I tend to bound back and forth between tasks of different, non-related, natures.

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Stop taking things away from me.

Python

"...sometimes it's better to just RTFM..." python lecturer. Nobody RTFMs in this room... everyone knows we should.

Environment progress

Some seriously simple environment that took me 6 hours to make, just these. 6 hours. Fucking sad. It's midnight and I need to do an essay.

CAT Comparative essay and MIT Critical Essay

I got the marks for the CAT essay today, and it was surprisingly better than I expected. Guess all those weeks spent researching and writing during Christmas break actually returned some profit! Unfortunately for this MIT essay I cannot afford anything like that in terms of time, resource, and help.

Snuh. Balf. Born Shnutta. Hiyoni. Yuuki. Shu-e. Nieve.

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I haven't been writing or updating screenshots because I've been so crushed with work there isn't even time for me to write here. I'm not exaggerating. I bought the lighting book, and the compositing book. Both are very useful from the few pages I managed to browse. I need to read and do tutorials, but I simply don't have time to do any of those. I'm constantly being moved from one task to another - bouncing between creating a lighting design, color script of the main character, coming up with an environment, light the environment, render out a presentable scene for presentation, model more environment for a 3D animatics. I can't just concentrate for 1 or 2 days on doing simply 1 task, and it's really taking an unexpected toll on my sleep as well as productivity. I didn't realize what kind of workload these will be since I never done any of them before. I thought at first this would be a great opportunity to learn lots of different things. But it's making me feel and probably look unproductive and a slacker instead. And I would hate to have my work ethics doubted.

Anyway, ranting aside, I have some time now, at 1am Saturday, Lunar New Year Eve, before going home to sleep, to post some screenshots of the second environment as well as some more color script. I don't expect to do anything for Lunar New Year this year. Should remember to call Mom.

Animation test

In-class animation exercise on the act of pushing:

Lighting test

Testing how to light stuff in Softimage; lighting and environment by me, animation and female, not by me: