Animation Sneak Peek! Part 2

I know I promised these days ago, but I have been working on a dance/animation collaboration and it is slowly draining my life away. The only times I have been blogging are when rendering, which takes forever. RAM previews in After Effects will one day be the death of me. Luckily for you, tonight is probably going to be yet another where I am working on this until nearly 2am. So while I wait for this good ol' PC to figure out that I moved a keyframe, let's look at the animation I shot with Meredith Saturday evening.

Well, what do you think? I'm hoping to have it up and running on my website by April 21st, so if all goes according to plan, you'll get to watch it then!

Wonderful news!

Today was wonderful. I feel so much better about absolutely everything.

The first half of my class was canceled.

I overslept, which felt wonderful, and decided to eat a quick breakfast. I decided on a Super Pretzel and some Swedish Fish. Best decision all day.

Joe & I got a good chunk of work done on a website we're making. We also came up with a hilarious secret addition to the site that just may involve a lot of cats. Curious? Good. I'll tell you more shortly.

My major, T.I.M.E., had an ice cream social for the new majors, but we all got to join in on the fun. My Neapolitan ice cream was decorated with chocolate & carmel syrup, dinosaur sprinkles, m&ms, Whoppers, and God only knows what else. It was delicious. And I may or may not have taken some m&ms to go. And by some, I may or may not mean an entire bag.

Part of the ice cream social also involved musical chairs. When we played last year, when I was a new T.I.M.E. major, I totally won second place. This year, I was second out. But I won a fun little ring with a strobe light on it! Haha :)

My mom called me to tell me she saw a help wanted sign in a flower shop back home, so I called the number since I worked in a flower shop a couple years ago, and the lady who I talked to was incredibly nice and very enthusiastic. So maybe I'll get a job!

But wait, it gets better!

My friend Vanesa sent me the best text of my life less than an hour ago: "You are officially our new roommate :)" which means...I have a place to live next year! Not only that, but it's much more affordable, so I will be able to continue at CIA!

So many things have been up in the air for so long, so to have a big one fall into place makes me feel so much better. I am so excited and incredibly thankful that things are beginning to work out. Hooray!

I thought this called for some celebratory animated .GIFs!

Alice, 1903

I think this is possibly a new favorite take on my favorite dreamy story. Then again, I don't know if anyone could ever top Svankmajer.

Loads of work to do, as usual. I just keep telling myself, though, that at the end of the semester, I will have a much stronger portfolio.

Maybe tomorrow I'll have time for a real post. I have some great things I'd love to show you and stories of pirate adventures.

Les Martiens and some other stuff.

I have a lot of things on my plate right now. So today has consisted of lots of work with short YouTube breaks to cheer me up. I thought I might share some videos that always make me feel a whole lot better.

Yes, I do realize those aliens are speaking French. It was the first one I clicked. And I think it's pretty great.

And that last video is of my little sister Mia. She's pretty great at telling stories. Or, in this case, singing them.

Chloe is sick.

I have to take Chloe (my laptop) to the Apple store in a little bit. I hope she's ok. More importantly, I hope she's still under warranty. Or easily/cheaply fixable. And I hope it doesn't take long. I have finals to work on, you know.

I'm currently rendering out the last chunk of my big animation (so long as my studio computer cooperates). I have a lot to do today. Then again, I always do.