Seven Quick Takes Friday
So, it's been over a month since my last post and I haven't done a thing. This is partially because I was:
a. in New Jersey with my grandparents and cousin in early early July.
b. packing up for summer camp in later early July.
c. earning merit badges in summer camp for a week in mid-July.
d. this is late July. And next week I'm going on a family vacation.
On tothe other excuses for non blogging what's been happening:
1. Of course, there are all the minor details like my birthday, earning a learner's permit, signing college applications, etc.
2. Back with computer animation, I amhappy ecstatic to announce that someone has downloaded my TARDIS model! Somewhere, someone is using it for their own projects!!!
3. Speaking of downloads, I have downloaded and am coloring a Tardis interior from the same website. To tell the truth, I actually like it that downloads all start out colored gray; it gives the person working with it something to do. Otherwise, it'd be kinda boring.
4. This is far from saying that I've ceased modeling altogether. I'm currently working on a project I've been keeping under wraps. All I'll say for now is that it'll be one of my first "advanced" models; perhaps the best one yet. It's slow work, but I'm getting there...
5. I am planning on a live-action mini-series, around 5-10 minutes an episode, using compositing and mattework. Here's how I'm planning it to work:
First, I'd make an animation on the left side of the CGI screen and color the background green. Next, I and a few others record ourselves in front of a green screen, nearer the right side. Then, we green screen the recording onto the animation, and when that's done, greenscreen that onto, for example, a spaceship or a brick wall.
Again, I don't have any promises for when it'll be--for all I know, it may take until next year's summer break--or if it'll exist at all. Still, we'll have to see how the rest of the summer turns out...
6. I've made my own customized 7 Quick Takes Friday post, having fun with (from top left, counter-clockwise): the new fire option in the Blender 2.64 update, image-based textures, a bump map texture, a bump map texture with stenciling, a wireframe material and a material made of halos.
7. In the fall, I'll be taking hand-drawn art lessons from my family's new boarder and art survey in a community college, a prerequisite to computer animation classes. I've heard that the better you get at hand-drawn pictures, the better you are when "drawing" with a computer.
More quick takes at Conversion Diary!
a. in New Jersey with my grandparents and cousin in early early July.
b. packing up for summer camp in later early July.
c. earning merit badges in summer camp for a week in mid-July.
d. this is late July. And next week I'm going on a family vacation.
On to
1. Of course, there are all the minor details like my birthday, earning a learner's permit, signing college applications, etc.
2. Back with computer animation, I am
3. Speaking of downloads, I have downloaded and am coloring a Tardis interior from the same website. To tell the truth, I actually like it that downloads all start out colored gray; it gives the person working with it something to do. Otherwise, it'd be kinda boring.
4. This is far from saying that I've ceased modeling altogether. I'm currently working on a project I've been keeping under wraps. All I'll say for now is that it'll be one of my first "advanced" models; perhaps the best one yet. It's slow work, but I'm getting there...
5. I am planning on a live-action mini-series, around 5-10 minutes an episode, using compositing and mattework. Here's how I'm planning it to work:
First, I'd make an animation on the left side of the CGI screen and color the background green. Next, I and a few others record ourselves in front of a green screen, nearer the right side. Then, we green screen the recording onto the animation, and when that's done, greenscreen that onto, for example, a spaceship or a brick wall.
Again, I don't have any promises for when it'll be--for all I know, it may take until next year's summer break--or if it'll exist at all. Still, we'll have to see how the rest of the summer turns out...
6. I've made my own customized 7 Quick Takes Friday post, having fun with (from top left, counter-clockwise): the new fire option in the Blender 2.64 update, image-based textures, a bump map texture, a bump map texture with stenciling, a wireframe material and a material made of halos.
7. In the fall, I'll be taking hand-drawn art lessons from my family's new boarder and art survey in a community college, a prerequisite to computer animation classes. I've heard that the better you get at hand-drawn pictures, the better you are when "drawing" with a computer.
More quick takes at Conversion Diary!
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