· Another CSS redo for the journal. I decided I would just stick with the normal DA style with a few additions only possible through the use of CSS. In addition, I've removed myself from some of the groups mostly due to group inactivity.

· I finally bought a 360 and a new TV to go with it. Looks amazing and is loads of fun.

· I just started Game Production in which I will be learning how to model and texture an Unreal Tournament 2004 level. Yeah, it kinda sucks that we're using such a dated game engine, but at least I'll have something fun to show off.


· Since my last update I've taken Introduction to Animation, Animation 1, a term break, and Texture and Lighting 1. Due to one amazing crash that managed to delete my work and my backups, my T&L work isn't as great as I had wanted it to be, but I've posted them anyway. The two final projects were to texture a character model from UT and to texture a scene of our choosing. I chose a robot from UT, and I modeled my own scene:

Character
Scene

The work I did in animation is all movies so I can't post them on DA. Even though I did enjoy animation, we had a terrible teacher and I found it very hard to really get into the class. We were given all the main models and rigs, all we had to do was animate them. The final was to animate the character to a ~10 second audio clip. So here's a link to my final which I ended up doing in about a quarter of the time we were given. My clip is from This is Spinal Tap:

Everything I Read... (2.6 MiB)

In Introduction to Animation we did mostly hand drawn animation and used video capture to make digital movies from the drawings. (The low quality is due to video capture.) We started off by animating three different balls, one heavy, one medium/bouncy, and one that's ultra light like a bubble. We also did a walk cycle and some simple animations of a character the teacher designed, but I seem to only have the ones of the balls. But they were probably the best anyway:

Bubble (23.9 MiB)
Bouncy (1.9 MiB) This one is intended to be looped.
Heavy (14.2 MiB)

· Geometry Wars
· Heavy Weapon
· Gears of War


· Aqua Teen Hunger Force
· South Park
· Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
· Lost
· Primer
· Smoking Aces
· The Pick of Destiny
· Science of Sleep


· Soft Machine by the Teddybears
· Mythmaker by Skinny Puppy
· Less Talk More Rokk by Freezepop
· Shut Me Up by Mindless Self-Indulgence
· Converting Vegetarians by Infected Mushroom
· High School by Tiga
· Bla Bla Bla by Gigi d'Agostino
· Never Win by Fischerspooner
· Your Cover's Blown by Belle & Sebastian
· Ice Cream by New Young Pony Club
· Take What's Mine by Baumer
· Mr Dabada by Carlos Jean
· The Fever by The Yound Immortals
· Shine On by Sunloverz

I haven't really had any time to do a full update, but I'm just posting to point out that I'm trying out a cafepress store with some of my vector art on it.

It's just a free store now so I can only have one picture for every item, but if it does at all well I will be paying for a premium account which would give you a larger selection.

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· Chocolate?
· Which number is most pleasing to the eye?
· What is your upper of choice?
· How has your experience been with DA staff?
· How do you like your eggs?
· What is lemon candy to you?
· Are you an interesting person?


· ~Picture-Maker
· *Nature-Club
· =macrophoto
· *TasteOfLiquid
· *NaturPics-club
· *flower-club

· I just noticed the little CSS thing at the bottom of the journal. Been playing around with it a bit and it's pretty cool. Not sure if this is a beta tester feature or what, but I like it. If anyone wants help customizing their journal feel free to ask

· After Design Basics we took two classes, one was Compositing 1 where we first learned to composite images well using photoshop and later learned how to combine movies in after effects. Overall it was a fairly disappointing class with a less than amazing teacher. The other class was Concept and Imagine where we learned a bit of illustrator, a bit of photoshop photo restoration, but the majority of the class was digitally painting in photoshop. Nothing from either of these classes was particularly amazing so I won't be posting it.

· The next class which just ended was Modeling 1 where we started to learn how to 3D model in maya. I made a couple decent models, but nothing about texturing or lighting so I'll probably wait until I know how to do that to post any of this.





· Mystery of Time and Space
· iPod games! (which I won on Blingo.com)


· Aqua Teen Hunger Force
· Harvey Birdman
· Perfect Hair Forever
· Moral Oral
· The Venture Brothers
· The Information by Beck


· Shine On by Jet
· D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat by Junior Senior
· Basement Jaxx by Crazy Itch Radio
· The Information by Beck
· Straight Outta Lynwood by Weird Al
· Without You Near by Gabriel & Dresden
· Tracking Treasure Down by Gabriel & Dresden
· Tracking Treasure Down by Gabriel & Dresden (Retrobype Remix)
· Fire by Ferry Corsten
· Everybody's Free by Aquagen (From the intro to Venture Brothers season 2)








· Chocolate?
· Which number is most pleasing to the eye?
· What is your upper of choice?
· How has your experience been with DA staff?
· How do you like your eggs?
· What is lemon candy to you?
· Are you an interesting person?


· =Picture-Maker
· *Nature-Club
· *macrophoto
· ~sky-shots
· ~Cats-n-Dogs
· *Cat-Lovers-Anon
· ~naturephotographer
· =TasteOfLiquid
· =NaturPics-club
· *flower-club