Dog Days Are Over (For Now)

Funny how time passes just like that. Life, indeed, passes in a fast pace too. Faster than you can imagine. Looking back, I have come quite far, or at least that's what I kept telling myself. But then I look into the mirror, tryna think again, what did I achieve thus far? I felt like a loser. Haha. But well, we all are working our way there. Soon.

Niña

My final project for experimental animation. I love cutting papers. LOL. Just incase you wanna go like, its the same kite lo.. building moving.. blah blah blah, I just want you to know its stop-motion animation and there were at least 600 frames there.








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Ball Bouncing

I got a pretty score for this homework.



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FML

this is not what I'm gonna submit. REDO~ anyway comment comment please.. Add what/ improve where? I need a lot of suggestions now..








Not even close to complete

Happy

I was reading an article today about Happiness & Joy. A line caught my eyes real deep:

We learn new things everyday. We learn to be stressed. We learn to be happy. Day by day, if we kept learning to stress, we get better in stressing ourselves; Same goes to happy. So, why are we learning stress instead?

I know things are always easier to be said than done. But, I guess, happiness don't just come by one day and say hello to you. You gotta make yourself happy at the first place. I am in the process of learning that. Need no to be upset for life. Shit things happen everyday. Looking for something to be happy about? Look outside from the window pane, breath-in, fresh air can makes one happy too. Just don't take things for granted. Appreciate every little things, be thankful.

And too from today onwards, I wanna learn another thing - honesty. Apparently real friends tell the truth; so if I think you are ugly I will have no problem telling you that to your face. So be offended and just leave cause you cannot accept the reality that you're ugly. Go find someone else who is willing to lie straight to your face that you are cute. I'm not that kinda liar. Not anymore. You are ugly. 'Nuff said.

(p/s: Im laughing to myself watching 'cater2u' video. Aww)

Most Expensive Experience (To Date)

It all started with a very lovely morning, I went to class as usual early morning and everything seemed so perfectly fine. Things started to get weird when I got to the class and there were just four of us there. And we wait, and waited; Apparently my teacher had something going on so he was late and we were free to go (according to the school policy or something). My original plan was to go and pick up my film after class but that was too early to get to the lab post since the class ended early. My pal Jana suggested that she fetch me home and we get some rest and she will come and pick me up again in the noon so we can both go to pick up the film later.

This is where the expensive experience comes in: We went into the post lab for about 20 minutes and came back with her car went missing! WTF!? Apparently she parked her car at the street that has time restriction for parking - you know, you are only allowed to park there for certain time. So her car got towed. In just 20 minutes. Holy shit I know.

So she made a few calls locating her car blah blah blah and she found it through the phone - it's somewhere 2 miles away. So we walked there and checked in to get the car. Guess how much she was charged for to claim back the car? $430 dollars!! Insanely crazy~ Reason #43212 not to drive in the City!!!

To add salt to the wound, when she got back the car, there was a ticket (saman) for her too! So pointless! Add that overall she paid about 500 dollar just to get back the damn car. Ughh! I felt terribly bad for her. And awful. And guilty. Ok, words can't really describe how I felt. Its horrible.

I don't know what I can do but I hope she gets better. Maybe I'm gonna buy her a coke. A coke coke not cocaine. LOL

Smoking Time

Woo~ I figured the title already freaked all of you out. No worries, I am not a smoker yet. Well as you all may already know that I am currently busy on my finals and stuffs. I've been working in the lab for the past few days now and I finally realized why most of the animators I knew before smoke like there is no tomorrow.

So here's the thing about doing animation work - apparently a good animator only animates 2 seconds of video a day. Well not in my case but that too explain why my works are a bit choppy at times cause I do 10 seconds or more a day. That leads to why animator needs to smoke. It's like you've been working on this piece of 'art' for more than 3 hours and you ain't seeing anything more than 1 second on the screen. It is so frustrating and at the same time you felt like your time is running faster than it should be due to the fact you're animating 24 frames per second. Breaking that down will be like - you're drawing 24 pieces of pictures for a second of animation. Not that bad right? It is bad.

So for any normal human it is only right to take a break from working on what you're working on if you think its not gonna go anywhere further - as for animators, we (they) go for smoking. LOL. You know, chilling out. Well in my case, I'll just go to facebook and chat and whatever. It makes me feel slightly relief talking to people (if there are people online and bother to reply me) and refresh my mind a bit. Then I regain my energy to continue. I think that is how animators go for smoking before they discover Facebook. But too bad they are already hooked up to smoking. LOL

Haha.'Nuff with the breakdown of why animators smoke shit. I shall just continue my work and hopefully I will post it later tonight if I can finish something up today.

(UPDATE: Her name is Niña.)

Pacca (for now)

Holy smoke I have no idea what I signed up for till I checked my schedule and realized I am this close to the end of the semester! I am a bit regret for promising my friend to help her on her shoot because I realized I don't really have time for her whole i-am-a-serious-director thing. I don't mind spending one or two hours to film for her but she needs me for 2 days at least. Geez. I felt like a movie star already! Thankfully for my case, I shot mine today for about 4 hours and hopefully it will turn out good (I'm shooting with analog camera - can't tell the result till the film get processed after a week plus. SO gun jiong!)

And then I have to start focusing on my long-on-hiatus animation homework, well, not really on hiatus, just the work is not that good to a level where I don't feel like sharing and it did has a worse grade than those before. So whatever, I'm just gonna stay focus on my final cause the homework is only 5% compared to the 48.33% for final project from overall grade. Ugh.

Another good thing happening now is that my drawing is improving. I just joined the winter show for freshmen with one of my still life drawing, hopefully it makes the cut and win me some cash. *fingercrossed* I thought of joining the spring show with my puppet too but I don't think I can find enough time to sew AND fix everything AND animate it AND make sure its grade A++ kinda work to be eligible to participate. So I'll put that aside till I get my final done.

Basically that is all I am doing now and I won't be back to the blog since its already dying due to the lack of readers till I get most of my works done. I might blog photos of my progress once in a while (hopefully) to update everyone about what's going on here. Till then, its pacca (poka/pakka) for now.

(p/s: the cafe is playing Dido's "Thank You". Love love love that song!)