You can check my last Pews Nost on how last semester wrapped up, but this semester I'm going to try and balance my time with summer activities, school, and knocking out NG animations.
Because I almost overloaded last semester, I'm balancing out by taking a class outside of my certificate program that I know I'll need if I get into the field. My one Adobe Illustrator class would meet up twice a week anyway, so I think that would be a sufficient load while I concentrate also on flash animations in my own free time.
The NG Animations will be imperative more than ever now, though; I drive my Dad around to his voice-over sessions (he's 70 and a prominent voice actor, you've heard him on radio and tv commercials, games like Deus Ex and Prey, and even in movies like Forest Gump) and whenever we're talking to the producers about me going to to community college for animation, they always ask "Do you have a demo reel? I'd like to see it."
...Shiiiit...I gotta hustle on flexing some animating muscles. I'm probably not going to get a job off of Dick Neck and ZOA.
Moreover, I keep coming up with ideas for animations way, WAY quicker than I can knock 'em out. Most of them are original, too, so it's just a matter of finding time to dedicate solely to animation. Somehow getting in a routine like "from here till there on these days, I animate, no exceptions"
I got LOTS of work to do.
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Your feedback on the Caveman preview has been outstanding! Doubts I've had have been confirmed, and features I'm proud of have been praised...all that's left is to FINISH THE DAMN THING!
You guys won't be disappointed. The goal is to knock out three solo submissions before 2011...I hate that it's likely to be 1 1/2, but I gotta push myself for speed while maintaining quality...that would ensure a job in the future.
My professor taught me It's like animators have this triangle with the points, "Good, Fast, and Cheap." The client can only get two at a time.
So if it's Good and Cheap, it won't be fast. If it's Fast and Cheap, it won't be good.
I'm hoping to get mine good and fast, that way it WON'T be cheap. :P
Film at Eleven!
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Sinitech
But what if it's of average quality, slow, and expensive?
Galneda
It still wouldn't look as good or I wouldn't be paid as much as the guy who does it good and fast. I want to be the guy that has it looking the best, and because it looks the best ON TOP OF being knocked out fast, paid the most.
Of course, that takes practice, practice, practice.