It's Alive!!!

What do you know... I made my very first animation!
Granted, it's only six seconds long, which was the required length for the class I took. Sounds like it should have been easy, right? Wrong... It took more hours than I care to think about to create the character and the rig to move and position it. The environment took quite a long time as well. To create the frames for the movement itself took six hours! Even adding color took quite a few hours. The easiest part of this was creating the series of frames to create this little six second movie and that was because I just had to make a few choices and click a button... So the next time you go see a computer animated movie or TV show with 3D characters, remember all the time it took for a student to create a six second animation of one of the required storyboard scenes It was literally a month long process (and I'm estimating over 100 hours) worth of work that made me want to rip my hair out. Animators certainly work harder than you think, though the pay off is worth more than you can imagine. I'm incredibly proud of my little animation! I got a 100% on this video and passed the class I feared I would bomb with a final grade of 96.4%. Not too shabby...

"Submitted for your approval..."

 In all honesty, I'm rather surprised I'm doing so well in college. I hated school when I was in high school... It's not that I wasn't intelligent; I knew I had the ability to do rather well. But school bored me and I hated the social aspects of it. I would have rather had a hot poker shoved up my ass sideways than to have to go to that awful place. I never applied myself and took so many personal days that my teachers would seem surprised when I actually showed up and would tell me how nice it was to see me again. In some ways, my attending college and doing so well is very surreal... I sometimes expect Rod Serling to show up out of nowhere and start his diatribe, foreshadowing some kind of ironical gloom and doom that's about to befall me... in The Twilight Zone...

"Tuesday's Wednesday..."

This month is another drawing class... It can sometimes be difficult to be inspired on command because you know your grade depends on it. In fact, it can sometimes be downright impossible... This isn't Xanadu and my name isn't Sonny Malone. My chances that the nine muses are going to come to life and walk out of a mural painted on the side of a building are zero and even less that one of them will come inspire me to draw something good and interesting for my art class.

"Modern Day Muses"

Although, the muses did inspire me to create a funny little parody of the muses and how their inspirational styles would change based on today's day and age. I drew it several years ago and, though not meant to be fine art or even good art, for that matter, I did get a lot of good feedback on it. I suppose that's good for something...
But I suppose it's a good thing I don't have a muse. I don't know that I could open a roller skating nightclub. I'm terribly uncoordinated on skates...