stuff from term 2

after the christmas holidays the animation class was split into 4 groups. i was put into group2, shortly after starting our 1st brief as group2 we decided to rename ourselves team mushroom.
our 1st brief involved the technique known as smudge n click and this is what we came up with
"and they fly apart like leaves..."

a brief definition of sumdge n click:
it's where you have your medium (paint, pastels etc) smudge it a bit, take a picture and do this frame by frame. simple, messy yet fun :)

*:)

animation stuff

well, first attempts anyway.
i'm putting links to them because they now appear to blink and there's no point warning people of flashing images when the warning's on the same page.

they're also tiny. i don't know how to upload quick time files to my blog for free, so i put the files through adobe premier and managed to export them as gifs, which means i could upload them to photobucket.

canaries

force, weight, volume

hamster aka pose to pose

materials
this was done by me and three other class mates. mine's the lamp post.

there was another of these line drawn animations called 'anticipation', but it wasn't on my usb key and i fear it may have been wiped to make space on the line testing machine. the tutor should have a copy on dv tape somewhere though. if i get a copy i'll add it to this post at a later date.

these animations were line draw on layout paper and filmed frame by frame using istopmotion.
my uni won't use premier because they said that adobe aren't making it for the mac any more >:P it's not like they've got the latest machines or software in this place. i need to save up for my own camera, rostrum and lights, then i can use premier to my hearts content.

*:)

gwyliau yn y caribi

(@.@)

yes, ok i have abandoned this blog for a while,
but not completely.

i have the tendancy to only leave stuff here when i'm bored and feel i have nothing else to do or when i'm angry.

recently i found myself completely preoccupied with either uni or my boyfriend, but since he's been learning how to start his own business i've been feeling a bit neglected so i have come back to my blog.

i suppose i could try to motivate myself to leave even small posts every now and then, we'll just have to see how my brain goes.

* 1st thing i'm going to get off my chest here and now:
why have i ended up in a building full of way more morons than there were in the young persons homeless hostel i lived in?!?!?!
this lot are all supposed to be 18+ yet the 16yr olds i was in the hostel in were way more mature.
i suppose there was the fact that the 16yr olds understood that if they did anything to piss the staff off they'd get evicted, here they don't care, if it comes to the worst they can always go home.
speaking of home, i'll be needing a new one by may. i was planning on staying in halls for as long as i could but they've already got all the rooms booked for summer school students. nice of them to let me know, i had told them in september that i wanted the longest lease possible "no problem" they said "we'll sort all that nearer the time", i hate being lied to >:(

flats to rent are more expensive than i'd have thought in wrexham, i've applied to the local housing association and asked around my class mates to see if there are any spare rooms going, so far there's a possible one in rhyl. i'd rather get a room in a house full of my class mates than move into one full of strangers.
all phill goes on about is that i have to make sure it's got parking, or how else is he going to visit me. the way things are going right now he's going to be too busy to visit me until he gets his business sorted, so i don't see the problem. so long as i have access to public transport, i'm fine.

i'm going to figure out a way to put some animations i've done in class on here. the rest of my class mates are on deviant and they want me to join them, but i don't see the point especially with the history i have with updating blogs goes. i haven't even looked at my livejournal one for months.

so, this is my plan:
i'm going to try to bring more life into my fluffy-scruffy blog.
let's see how it goes hey.

*important word of warning, when a nurse tells you that a biopsy won't hurt, it's all lies!!!!*
(unless you've been given anaesthetic of course)

*take care everyone out there*
*:)