Started off the semester with a stubbornly overloaded schedule of:

-3D Animation I
-Digital Imaging (Photoshop class)
-History of Animation
-3D Rendering with Maya II
-Flash

Before the mid-terms, I dropped both 3D classes, because they were royally kicking my ass. (Hell, 3D Rendering I last semester was kicking my ass.)

The other three classes were incredibly informative. Learned all kinds of neat tricks in Photoshop, picked up an incredibly valuable book about animation, absolutely chock full of knowledge (Richard William's Animator's Survival Kit) as well as learned WHY King Kong was so badass, and Ub Iwerks, Winsor McCay...I could go on and on....

Learned a little bit of programming in flash, mask effects, how to manipulate gradients, and if these different examples aren't any indication that I'm getting more comfortable with frame-by-frame animation...well...here's what I got pending.

-That Caveman preview will soon become the real-deal. My first original animation project.
-Then, Hogabeast and I are finishing up our Starfox parody.
-Finally, I'm going to try to live up to what I intended to do for what would've been my contribution to the Lady Noir collab as a Lady Noir solo project. I'm digging the hell out of Sapphire's voice, so I may get her to reprise her role.

And that's only the beginning! I have another storyboard project from last semester...or I should say two semesters ago, that I've wanted to animate from the beginning. A brief parody here and there, quick joke, something comically informative about myself, and should the fans demand it, possibly a Dickneck sequel.

Like I said, this is only the beginning, with a busy summer ahead of me; I've only signed up for one Adobe Illustrator class that meets up twice a week, but in my free time I'm knockin' out submissions for NG.

Film at Eleven!

-G-