Catching Up

Week of December 6th

So my wife and I have just been totally burnt out from this semester. Hardest frickin' one ever! Anyway, she decided to take me to see Tangled to cheer me up. I know, it's a total kids movie, but I like watching the animation and art. It was a pretty good movie. This is Disney's first computer animated film, without Pixar. I was reading that they had to design their own program just for her hair. She had something like 100,000 different strands and there was an entire design department of like 10 animators for her hair alone. Which, if you see the movie, makes sense since the hair was almost a seperate character in itself. I was really impressed with how exceptional it turned out for being the first of its kind. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone else interested in animation.

Week of December 13th

Yikes, finals week! Ahhh! I'm trying so desperately to keep it all together. After a brief meltdown last night, I pulled myself together enough to get to the Fab Lab and start cutting the wells for my portfolio for Traci's Typography II class today. I was worried it would take me forever to get it all cut, but what would normally take 20 minutes per well by hand, took an hour and a half with the Epilog Laser Cutter! How awesome is that? I'm feeling pretty pumped right now, maybe I can get everything done and handed in. I just might pass this semester after all.