You Stupid Little BABIES!

Hey everybody, long time no see.

I'm now back in school, and have finally started my Beginning Animation courses which I'm totally excited about. We already did our first assignment, a flipbook (gotta start somewhere), I ended up shooting the thing and you can watch it below. It's just a dumb 100 frame metamorphosis thing and the cards are twitchy as hell since they're not regulation size and it's kind of hard to get the positioning exact every time. I'm sure there's plenty more where this came from :)

Anyway, any work I've wanted to do has been halted again... This time I got a pretty vicious virus on my computer that made me have to go as far as use a rescue disk on the damn thing which took FOREVER. After finally cleaning up my computer, you know what happens? My monitor breaks... The VGA port in the back of my monitor is apparently shorted out meaning I need to ship the thing back to Samsung for them to repair. The bad thing is that the receipts and box are all the way home and I'm not going back until Spring Break. Even after I ship it out over the break, it'll still take several weeks and I'm not home for that long so the most likely scenario is that I'll be without my nice, pretty 22" flatscreen until May when I'm out of school. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

During the meantime though, I've begun penciling out new ideas for a series I'd like to do sometime in the future, whether near or distant. There's not A LOT I have done about it right now, but it's a show based on my experiences in YMCA Summer Camps as a kid and counseling at a summer camp for four years. So yeah, a show about the lives of camp counselors in a YMCA style rec center... The characters are pretty funny right now, I'm just tinkering and tweaking and adding to it. You can see a preliminary sketch available on my recently resurrected DeviantArt page. Screw you, I don't feel like linking to it, you go find it.

Anyway, school's good, animating on lightboards is fun (right now) and I guess I'm a bigger nerd than I thought since I recently got into the show Sliders. Everything past the first few beginning episodes of season three are totally shit though. Also got to see Dr. Strangelove FINALLY, and it's a great great great movie. Did I mention it was great??? Welp, see you guys in a month, maybe I'll have something to show for it.

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P.S.: I am freaking ecstatic to see Newgrounds XMas Boner won 6th place in the Winter Flash-Off, it did really well considering it placed at all! Oh and go check out my Flapjack fanart.

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Alec-D 2010-01-29 22:34:17

Sup duuuuudeeee

Pixmintro 2010-01-29 22:34:17

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

RydiaLockheart 2010-01-29 22:41:19

Now you get to see the Edinboro snow. Before you came back to school, we had a storm around New Year's Day. The final measurement was that Edinboro had 45 inches of snow on the ground. My area had 26 but it was still a lot. Some of it melted before you came back, but you seem to be getting it back.

I guess you're gonna major in animation? Two of my friends were in the program and apparently there's a point in sophomore year or something where you pick what you'll do. One did graphic design. One stayed with animation until a professor ruined it for her and then she switched to graphic design. That professor was a woman. I think it was an individual case of them butting heads.

Pixmintro 2010-01-29 22:41:19

Oh it is unbearably cold outside, the wind chill is in like the -20s right now and we're getting pure powder. There really was a lot, enough to have 10 foot tall mounds in the Lawrence Towers parking lot. A bunch of us ended up building an awesome snow fort :) but somehow it RAINED for 2 days and ruined it. Yeah I've heard of the point where they make you decide, but I'm sure I'll be traditional animation all the way through. The kids who are planning on being 3D animation act like such douches because they act like traditional is inferior and they're just in the class so they can head to bigger, better things B(

Starogre 2010-01-29 22:50:46

the twitch in the cards adds to the FAST ACTION

Pixmintro 2010-01-29 22:50:46

Yeah I'm kind of happy about how fast-paced it is, it seems even faster than 24 fps.

Starogre 2010-01-29 23:52:12

haha so many people i know just want to do 'game design' and '3d animation' so their reason in being in our mostly 2d intro to animation class is 'i figured getting my feet wet in different types of animation would be good before i ventured into 3d' roflroflroflrolroflorlfofllrorlfofoll flflofllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooo ooooo

i guess it's good if you want to be a 3d modeler specifically but many don't realize for some reason that knowing traditional 2d techniques is far more important than spending a dedicated month or so to learn a piece of software

Pixmintro 2010-01-29 23:52:12

Yes exactly, they need to get it through their thick skulls that you need to know the fundamentals of 2D before you can be any good at 3D. The funny thing is that none of these 3D kids can draw worth shit HEH.

RydiaLockheart 2010-01-30 00:46:56

Have the snow cocks started showing up around Lawrence Towers yet? Sometimes those things used to collapse on their own.

The snow in the parking lot isn't necessarily so bad. What was bad was the day a tree fell and no one could park. I haven't been back to campus since September, so other than the new apartments that are now obstructing what used to be the view from my room in Lawrence Towers, I haven't seen much new.

Pixmintro 2010-01-30 00:46:56

Surprisingly no snow cocks! I live on the 5th floor so my view is the Highlands apartments but I can see the top 3 or so floors of Baron Forness in the distance. Gonna be moving into the newly renovated Darrow Apartments next semester though.

CantflyRyan 2010-01-30 02:00:06

flerpjerk and k'napples

Pixmintro 2010-01-30 02:00:06

flipflap and k'nipples

lenkalamari 2010-01-30 03:59:22

fuk u!

Pixmintro 2010-01-30 03:59:22

no fuk u! >:I

TheBoogley 2010-01-30 06:57:25

schmupid schmabies