un-holy havoc

What a term. I’ve been plagued by so much freaky stuff that one of my profs playfully suggested that I might have bad karma. I have lost a 500 gb drive a 8 gb flash drive and I had to restore my hp and I’ don’t think my back-ups are going to restore. I had a health issue that took me out for half a week then sucked up a ton of time in appointments and lab work after word. the cord to my second 500 gb drive shorted and some how I’ve managed to keep my important data alive, but I’m starting to get stressed which normally just doesn’t happen to me. By the time I’m done with this course I’ll have fused some neurons, but I”ll be ready for anything. Hey, but at least I’m doing what I love. <sigh>

“Head” of the class

No I’m not actually the head of the class. But I did make a head for my class assignment in modeling. It was pretty good If I do say so myself. So were a lot peoples. The guy we modeled had a funky nose and an asymetrical face I enjoyed creating him. I find so far that the more I model the more I like it. There is a critical point every time I’m modeling where I go from frusterated to fun to serene it’s when I’m in that zone that I learn the most. Reaching that zone where I realize the challenge but at the same time am not intimidated by it, is the key. Then again it’s also possible I don’t know what the heck I’m talking about.

godly mischief

What started out as a project to create a Loki (the Norse god of mischief) character turned out to be a projecxt to create a character with a norsee feel. It will porbably eveolve a few more times but I hope it will not change much because this will sap valueble time. Ièm hoping to incluide this charactyer in my final demo reel. to those ends I will be doing a fair bit of preliminary preparation. Iève created a charater sheet. My 3-d modeling prof. is having us go through this exercise as part of his class and I understand that the idea behind a a character sheet is to to communicate an idea for acharcter to another individual who will be working on it. In our case we will be working on our own character but we will still be acting as if the charcter sheet is for someone else completely unfamilar

ahead of the grind

The key to less strees seems to be two fold. 1: maintaining a sense of fun and entertainment, and 2: staying well ahead of deadlines and pridein your work.