I'm alive...

...I promise.

Sorry, I have yet to update after getting home from CSSA. I still have to uplaod the rest of my CSSSA pics and such, but they're all on my phone, so it takes a while.

Other than that, school has started back up. Senior year + IB= hard. I'm sure it'll be fine though.

On a better note, I just had callout for my Student Studio production of 2112 by Rush. It went pretty well, and I had a great turnout. The thing is, there are only 5 stage parts and 4-5 band parts. Where were all the kids last year when I did the 13 person show and I was scrapping to get people to do it? Ah well.

I also had auditions for Conedy Sportz. Not much to say about it. I got to be an angry Llama. It included spitting. yay. I find out next week.


I also picked up Prowl from the Transformers: Universe line today. Yay! Walmart finally has a good Transformers selection. IT's a good thing I only had 10 bucks, or I would have come home with quite a few more figures. I will be back for you, TFA Soundwave.

Speaking of Prowl, I really needed to draw. I have been people sketching, but thats about it. So, I decided to draw the infamous prick himself.

Transformers (or robots in general) are still really hard to draw for me. Sorry for ruining you, Prowl.

later

Library adventure continues....

I actually found the internet jack in my room, but my Guerin laptop is so firewwalled, nothing works.

Oh well.

Sunday was the Disneyland trip. It was AWESOME. Tomorrow I will give a full run dwon on what I did, but my time is currently limited.
All I have been doing the last couple of days has been working on my final film. It has to be at least 25 seconds, so it's pretty intense. I'm sort of doing traditional animation. What I mean is that I am drawing all my frames as usual, but then I'm cutting them out. It's a little hard to explain, but the characters will have a little white aura around them. Hopefully it will be epic.

Today we actually had a surprise visit from a person from Walt Disney Animation Studios! She just talked to us about internships and summer programs. She also talked to some people about our films. She let me and my friends know a little bit about the upcoming traditionally animated "The Princess and the Frog". The teaser trailer was just released yesterday. Find it and Watch it.

Other than that, nothing has really been going on. I really miss everyone in Indy, but I can't believe I only have a week left.

Hey. Still using a library computer.

Well, the Pixar guys officially left a couple of hours ago, but not before bestowing us with INtENSE knowledge. I learned so much in their lessons. I can't wait to apply what I've learned in my animations!

Oh, and we got some freebies. I now have a luxo jr. ball keychain, a pixar pencial, and..oh yeah, an official, movie theatre, double sided, huge, Ratatouille poster, signed by both animators! Boo yah!!

Other than that, I just finished animating my Week 2 animation an I'm going to shoot it later today. It's a girl dancing.

Tomorrow is DISNEYLAND!!! I am so pumped!!

I got an awesome letter from my love Laura Mckamey, whom I love.

Other than that, not much has been going on. I just found out that Mojo has Addison's Disease, a relatively rare, but treatable, adrenal gland disease. I was a bit worried at first, but it seems like he is going to be okay.

Melissa and I introduced Brittany to the Wonders of Yu-gi-Oh: The Abridged Series and Brittany has introduced us to the Lazar collection. Doctor Octagonapus! BWAAH!

Well, that's about it for now. Sorry for another post without pictures, I'm trying though!

Hey, another super quick, pictureless, update.


Today was the first day of the almighty PIXAR BOOTCAMP!!!!!!11!gkone!!!

Mark Walsh and Bobby Podesta (They have worked on every film except Toy Story and Wall E) are our teachers and today they tuaght us about story boarding and showed some short films that inspired them.
I'm getting them to sign something later.

I can't wait for tomorrow!!!

Other than that nothing much has been going on. Yesterday a group of us watched my Gotham Knight dvd. It was total awesome!

Alright ttyl

Sorry, the internet has been awful here and I haven't had any real access to a computer. I'm updating quickly to let you know that I am not dead. I had a super awesome update all typed out, but know I can't get to it. So..

SUPER quick run down on what I've down
-2 awesome faculty shows
-The Drowsy Chaperone (super funny)
-Finished my first film, which I will get up when I can.
-Other assorted Projects.
-Body Worlds (very cool)
- Hanging with other animators.

I received a package from my mom that included Transformers:All Hail Megatron, Transformers: Spotlight Hardhead (both comics), and a copy of Gotham Knight. I love them all.

I promise to give a better update, with pictures, when I can.

Love and miss you all!

Puppet time

I was being a Tourist yesterday and took a picture of the sign.

I finished my flipbooks. Chelsea, this one's for you. The title card for my bug flipbook-


Well, thankfully stop motion lesson is over..but I'm pretty behind on my puppet. I spent all of the open lab basically discovering what didn't work. But know I have a better idea nad I will have to work on it in my spare time. Quick note though, I totally forgot to mention that one of my teachers that is doing the stop motion lesson actually works on Robot Chicken and Moral Orel! I thought that was so neat, because one of the things I was thinking about doing in the future was working for animated TV.

Other than that not much has been going on. There was a "mass exodus" (quote from Vince) of animation students to Michaels yesterday. I got new markers, some paint, papermache, and styrofoam (which I have discovered that I don't need.) I luv Michaels.

We had a Faculty Screening on Tuesday and it was AMAZING!! The first presenter was Zoe Moss, whose stuff was hilarious. Ever seen Pikachu pitted up against a Zombie from Resident Evil? (Zoe's youtube account is here--> http://www.youtube.com/user/zoemoss)

Then we watched the most mindblowing film from Jodi Mack! It was like 20 minutes to a half an hour and it was all cutouts from recycled magazines. Oh, and it was a MUSICAL that she wrote herself. I was totally blown away and inspired. Keep your eyes out for "Yard Work is Hard Work".

I've met even more cool people in my class. Brittany is, like, the ONLY person I have ever met that has also played Psyconauts. Thomas, from Norway, is the only person who listens to the Animation Podcast (His voice was even on it once!) and Spline doctors. Hanock is kind of out there, but pretty darn cool.


Well, that's basically it. Ta Ta for Now!

Sushi

Well, I finished my first official-non orientation- day.

We've done some really cool stuff in the last couple of days. We worked with Camera-less film by painting and scratching and gluing and drawing onto strips of film. That was really neat.
Yesterday we talked about Early Animation and now we are making Flip books. One has to be a "morph" (mine is a dog jumping and turning into a girl jumping into a pool), and the other has to be high contrast, with 70% needed to be black, and composition, like angles and such (Mine is about a super Bug. Apparently, his name is CB).

This project definitely opened the door to the horror stories I've been hearing about. Each flip book has to be at least 30 frames, which is a lot. I'll probably be staying up to finish my high contrast one tonight.

Other than that, we've been watching some really interesting stuff in the Bijou (the little theater on the 2 floor). We had a contemporary animation festival on Sunday night and I was able to find one of my favorites from that,Hedgehog in the Fog, on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRsXU4Q6a0Q
It's all cutouts and it's very cool.

Besides class I've been meeting/ hanging out with more people in my department. Last night before our open lab time, a couple of us walked down to a Sushi place to get something to eat. This came from that outing. I apologize for the fact that it's sideways and tiny, I took it on my phone.



The kids in the video are all from animation. It's kind of hard to say who all of them are from the video, but the table was set up like

Vince ----- Sophie

Chelsea --- Megan

Emily ----- Sammy-Jo

Suami ----- Me

Hopefully you can figure it out from that.

Well, that seems to be it for now. To anyone I know from Indy who is reading, I miss you all!

Final note, apparently I'm getting a copy of Batman: Gotham Knight. Whoo hoo!