000068 - someone "time remap" my deadlines please?!

last week was a hell of a week and not in a good way.

averaged probably around 3-4 hours sleep per night, i probably shouldn't have even sneaked in that 2 hours on wednesday/thursday since i ended up being late for presentations. but i guess all was good since i made the deadlines. just.

the maya 3d scene i've made turned out ok, i think. it's my first 3d project afterall, so i'm pretty happy with what i was able to achieve in the time that we were given. that's one of the renders above, it's based on a row of stone lanterns outside the toshogu nikko shrine. learning maya has grown on me day by day. it really satisfying building the 3d model, then applying textures, putting lights and cameras to finally come up with something that looks relatively realistic at the end. next up, we have to "animate" our scenes... which i'm back to being quite scared again!

group presentations for both my group partner and myself went pretty smoothly. since i'm doing an interview/doco piece on my group partner, there's not much in terms of storyboard or animatic. i think i was able to get my concept and progress across clearly. i know i forgot to mention a few small points though afterwards. my lego stop-motion animation on myself went well, too. i'm excited about working on this piece even though i just worked out today i have to take at least 1500+ photos in order for this animation to be relatively smooth (it's running around 1 min 45 sec at the mo).

individual presentation for my knight-edge trailer animation flew by real quick. i don't know, i thought i spoke too quickly but my classmates said i was ok. a couple of my lecturers couldn't follow what i was trying to get at with the animatic and pointed out how much work i have with the animation!

i really feel like i've bitten more than i could chew this semester. but i can't really change my concepts now and i really want to make all of these projects (especially the knight-edge trailer) the best.

anyway, the week ended well with some drinks and pictionary with some of my uni classmates over at alex's place to celebrate the hard week we've all had. spent the weekend half thinking about my uni projects and half working on the final piece for the boroondara gallery exhibition (yes, i know i suck at fractions when i haven't slept well). more on that in my next entry.