Yrae Chronicles

I'm so flitty tonight ^^; LET'S MAYA! Half an hour later... screw Maya, let's draw! Another half-hour passes... screw drawing, let's GW! Another half-hour... screw GW, let's write!

I've actually accomplished SBA in the last two hours as a result. Let's see how the writing thing goes XD;

IT'S FINISHED. OH MY GOD IT'S ACTUALLY FINISHED. SOUNDTRACK AND EVERYTHING. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Stupid buggy program >< Maybe if you didn't bring a new version out EVERY SINGLE YEAR you'd have time to sort out the bugs, hmm, Autodesk?

Yes, I'm still on Maya. Just finishing off the pracs now, tho. Animation itself is finished~ due to the week's not-extension (we just had to have it mostly finished last week, yasse. Tidying up happens this week for the presentation on Wednesday) and I'll have time tomorrow to give my little blobs a soundtrack, so I'll upload the finalfinalfinal... probably on Wednesday actually. Then I'll know there aren't any further changes I can make to it XD; Tonight I'm going to have that topic FINISHED except the said soundtrack. Woooooo and stuff.

MY LIFE IS SO BORING.

Here, have a playblast*. Actual rendering of animation appears to not be working, since Mental Ray doesn't have an option for rendering an .avi, or indeed any form of render that's not just a still image. However, need Mental Ray to make my shiny shiny squishy jelly baby looking textures. Anticipate saying bugger the textures and just throwing standard blinns on them instead, just so I have something more impressive than a playblast to show tomorrow. Everything is done except the rendering. Insert arg here.



* playblast = .avi of just the straight out maya file. No rendering, no shiny lights or pretty textures. That's just what it looks like in the maya working window. As such, little dude in the background is in more shadow than that with lighting.

Everything on USB for uni tomorrow~ yay. Might head in an hour early to score the computer with the tablet break up Maya work cos oh god brain has melted over the course of today. During lesson~ I believe we're on presentations of websites. I think they're supposed to be finished by tomorrow, anyway. So, should have time to do the self portrait in that time, too, especially if I go in an hour early and get the computer with the tablet >>

Thennnnnnnn after that, snag Theodor and get every last detail of my animation working and shiny and smooth and gorgeous. Come home, add lights, then set the thing rendering overnight and that'll be DONE for Wednesday. Cross fingers and pray to the ETSA gods that the power doesn't go out overnight, cos I really have no idea how long this thing will take to render. Depending on when I hit the 'render' button, see about doing some readings for Intermedia, notetake them for the polished FLO posting. Odds of this actually getting done are slim to nil, but we'll give it a shot anyway. That or early night. Maybe. Please, Maya, cooperate for me just this once :<

For those wondering what the crap I'm on about with Maya, I'm about to stick a test render up on h_bee, and thennnnnn BED.

Arg etc. Why won't you turn around, you little purple dickhead? Screw it, you can just face that way and STAY THERE and I'll ask Theodor how to fix tomorrow.

And this is why I haven't been updating much, you see.

It's been brought to my attention that I haven't updated in weeeeeks so here we go. Dot points because uni is eating me. Expansion on said points may come at a later date, we don't know.

o Carolyn's wedding (my cousin) was on the 10th :D Gorgeous day, Caro was stunning, Uncle Dave was the proudest I've ever seen a man look in my entire life, all of us stoked to have Michael as an official cousin-in-law now, and the Kiwi connection was fun to talk with at the reception :D

o Uni is eating me. Here's an assignment due on Tuesday, nice and shiny and finished. Four page website on the topic of the 'texture of Flinders'. Those of you who watch h_bee will recognise a couple of the dragon manips.

o Soul Eater is eating my soul. OH THE IRONY.

o Maya is making my brain melt. Right now I'm trying to get my little blobby dude's arms to move without his head melting at the same time. It's not working. HATE ANIMATING. Let me stick with modelling and texturing and lighting where I'm comfortable, make someone else animate the things D:

o Veronica, uni friend, had her 21st birthday last night :D Started at Fumo Blu~ (cocktail bar in the city) then headed to Shotz, a club that kinda makes a feature of its pool tables, though we didn't actually play pool. They had good music, tho. Only about 5 R&B songs for the whole night. I was impressed.

o I have to write four essays this week :D Well, two essays and two reports. Same dif. And finish animating my little blobs. And revise for that quiz on tomorrow. And do prac 4. Ahahaha yeah. WELCOME TO MY LIFE.

o I haven't seen Anna P in WEEKS. Having withdrawals now D:


And now to quit Maya for the evening and write more essay, hurrah.