Doomsdayweeks (Part II) - Episode 5

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Listening: Tainaka Sachi - Saikou no Kataomoi
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Only the fifth time blogging since Studio Project started and I feel sick of looking at the word "doom" in my title already.

Yesterday, my peg bar was very good to me. I did leave it in school, but my friends found it and dropped by to pass it me. Mweehee. And I let them have some of the brownie cake.

Today, my Photoshop was particularly evil. It was lagging the entire time. Well it could be due to the fact that I was working on two ultra-sized 300dpi documents at the same. Even now as I type here, I am waiting for the "paint bucket" to take it's time to fill my canvas. And it has been about 5 minutes already. I should try restarting my comp.

Oh no. Now the words on the toolbar read "Adobe Photoshop (Not Responding)". Eeaarrrgghh. Thank God I saved one of the documents. The other one is simpler to do.

*goes back to work*

*is back here, waiting for gaussian blur to take effect*

I have a feeling that I seem to be going schizophrenic again. It must be stress-induced. Because when I felt giddy while drawing, I could hear my anaemia condition mocking at me. Like "Mweeheeehee who ask you never eat pills for the entire of last week and the week before, see? See now what? We told you so". It was a very annoying voice.

I am now switching thru and fro the Firefox and Photoshop windows. Because I hate waiting.

I notice my Studio Project chronicles mostly consists of evidences of my stupidity. I believe it must have been for future amusement.

*is now rotting and stoning due to lack of noteworthy events to mention and Photoshop lagging while I drag a layer*

*buries head in pillow* Photoshop is still lagging. Oh wait, the dreaded "Adobe Photoshop (Not Responding)" have reappeared once more. Ooh yes! The "(Not Responding)" disappeared already! Now it is back to just lagging only. Now it's "Not Responding" again. I was using the the "Free Transform" tool.

Okay, 15 minutes already. It hanged once more. I'll do it faster the next time round. But I'm getting very sleepy already. Hadn't slept the entire night na. And I'm hungry too.

*back to work*

*yawns~*

Am finally done!! But it looks like.... very bad. I don't know what's wrong with it. Eeaarrrgghh why is it so... n00b-ish-looking? And lame.


(The usual... click the image to enlarge.)

This is the supposed poster for my Studio Project 3 by the way. See here for storyboards.

I must be too sleepy to operate functionally. I better come out with something better when I wake up.

And haha, I survived another record 24 hours without sleep!! And Photoshop also hanged on me a record of 3 times in two hours.

I had better go soon before my grandmother starts complaining that I am a deity. (I think she's biased. When I don't eat or sleep and do my work, she calls me a deity. But when I eat a lot and sleep a lot, she never calls me a pig.)

Studio Project 3 Progress
Storyboard - 15% / 15%
Layouts - 7% / 15%
Animation - 1% / 40%
Packaging - 20% / 20%
Portfolio - 7% / 10%
TOTAL - 50% / 100

Doomsdayweeks (Part II) - Episode 4

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Listening: Onitsuka Chihiro - We can go
Watching: Ergo Proxy Episode 16
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*curses mosquitoes* It's all your fault for giving me dengue that now I've been having anaemia and thus feeling all sleepy and giddy as there's been a lack of blood flow in my brain now. And during Studio Project too!!

Okay okay it's Saru's own fault too that she has been skipping out on eating pills. I keep forgeting to take them na.

Studio Project 3 Progress
Storyboard - 15% / 15%
Layouts - 7% / 15%
Animation - 1% / 40%
Packaging - 5% / 20%
Portfolio - 7% / 10%
TOTAL - 35% / 100

Eeeaarrrgghh~~~ Half of the Studio Project time has passed and Saru has only done a third of what she has to do... Die die die die die~~~ And all I've been doing is slacking, slacking, slacking, sleeping and sleeping. I slept a total of 22 hours yesterday and today. Eeaarrrgghh. Eearrgh.

I was hyper and productive for about 1.5 hours today. Because I had coffee. After that I started to get very distracted. Then I started to get headache. It lasted from 1830 to now (2351). And it's still going on. Maybe I shall go and get another can of coffee.

(Haha I realise that behavior of mine makes me more like an Extended than a Natural. Since the Extended need medicine (like Saru needs coffee) to battle, and without their medicine would suffer relapses (probably worse than Saru's headache now). Maybe I'm better off as an Extended that lives long enough to 0wn Coordinators than a Natural that 0wns Coordinators.)

Everyone is sick today, I realise. Mummy and Joey got flu, and Romie keeps sleeping and not eating. And Saru is having a headache and nausea.


While Saru was still well, Mummy tells her that she thinks Xavier and Saru are both very cute. Why, I ask. Because you both are so similar, she says.

No no no, Saru and Taicho are not similar!! Saru is an idiot and taicho is a bastard. Saru is a boy and Taicho is a girl (muahahahaha). Saru is 8-years-old and Taicho is almost 20-years-old.

Mummy says that the way we carry ourselves are quite alike. We both childish. We both talk the same when we actually are serious. Our opinions and outlooks are about the same. We have the same choice of food. And we both eat wantan mee like spagetti. (She says that she and Daddy were laughing at us when we sit beside each other eating wantan mee. Because Taicho is laft-handed and Saru is right-handed, so it appears like a mirror image of two people eating noodles very strangely.)

Nooooo not true not true not true!! Only the noodles bit is correct. Everything else is wrong wrong wrong. Ehh oh well. I'll post this here to wait for Joanne to see this. And whoever else who knows the two of us. =x


Speaking of Joanne, she made Saru a delicious birthday chocolate brownie cake (which Daddy holds the record for eating most of). =DD Thank you thank you thank you so much. Ant should sell brownies as a part time job after O's. Whoever wants it can come over to try it. =3

And oh, Saru has a probational new cell leader. Her name is Jun Ting, and Saru is meeting her next week after first service for lunch. Hope that all would go on fine!

*goes off to get new can of coffee latte, then pack to pia animation.*

Oyasuminasai. Or ohayo gozaimasu.

My peg bar is missing~!!

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Listening: Sunset Swish - My Pace
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Either

(1) I mispaced it somewhere at home
(2) My grandpa threw it away
(3) It's at school.

I certainly hope it's option (1), because option (2) and (3) would mean that my peg bar would be permanently gone. Because I lost my peg bar, now I'm going to sleep instead of pia-ing like I intended to.

Doomsdayweeks (Part II) - Episode 3

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Listening: Onitsuka Chihiro - Beautiful Fighter
Reading: Bleach Chapter 239 by Kubo Tite
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It is becoming really really stressful. I am starting to feel as though I cannot make it before the dateline. I am way too slow. I suppose this is a normal feeling.

I never realised that drawing a lot of chibis (or 4-year-old kids) for so many times could be so annoying. So hard to keep they shoulder width, their neck thickness, the arm length, hand size, thigh and calf lengths consistent. I never had a 4-year-old model to draw before after all. I do need more practice.

And whaha, guess what Saru took out her stress on? Illustrator!! XDD Actually, I just drew this on a scrap piece of paper, trying to imagine how 21's (uhh just one of my characters, pronounced as "two-one", real name Shaine) mother would look like. And when I was done I went yay this would look good in the "paint it black" vector style!! So here it goes: (Click to see full-view!!)



Weeeeee~ Saru likes playing with positive and negative space. The last time with the "Paint it black", it was black to block out the dark parts on a hue. So this time, Saru tried to do the opposite: white to block out the light parts on a hue. Mweehee I like how it turned out.

And I am now learning the bad habit of flooding my blog with images. Poor Photobucket. Saying that I just want to make use of the opportunity to show everyone what I meant by my "Paint it black" style is a poor excuse na, but heck care.










Looking at these, I think I got a wee little bit better. >.< I think. I hope I saw correctly.

Better be off to bed now to catch my 2 hours of sleep. Got first service tomorrow.

Eeeaarrrgghh still have so much work to do...

Nothing is more depressing and going so happy after you have completed 100% of your work, save, and then realise that your .ai file is corrupted

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Listening: Rie Fu - I wanna go to a place
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Haha yeps, so Saru's earlier purple picture which she is so proud of, just died-ed. Illustrator, for some reason, failed to save it.

God thinks Saru is being too cocky and thus has decided to humble her?

Saru wants to cry already... It's worse than my schoolwork hanging, because while I don't love my schoolwork, I love this picture.

(not-so-)Doomsdayweeks (Part II) - Episode 2

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Listening: Asian Kung-fu Generation - Road Movie
Reading: Joanne's blog =3
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Because Saru was lazy and won't upload my storyboard, Joanne decided to upload it for me. EVERYONE GO SEE HERE~!! XDD

I got an Akatsuki Gundam with Shiranue space pack!! (Click here for technical data info.)

Whaha thank you so much everyone!! For those who gave me the Akatsuki (Zabyaru-taicho, Lychee, Walter, my who, Xue Qi, Leong Wei, Shu Guo, Hui Xian, Hui Ling, Aini... uhh who did I miss out?), the one who gave me 2 Maple A-Cash cards (CJ) and those who signed whatever on the box (too many to write down =x)!

Saru had fun terrorizing everyone with my camera today. I would upload photos, but I have to go off soon. (Yee has been trying to get at the comp the entire time but Ant and me were hogging.) So I'll let you know when I uploaded something!

And I got kissed by Eli (female) today. (On the cheek lar.) Li Siong tried to take a photo of that but he was too slow. Ahah sadness, Lee Yeung says he'll never make it as a tiko old man (or something like that).

And yeps, so sayonara for now. ^ ^ *goes off to shower now*

PS: And go SEE HERE!!! =3

Doomsdayweeks (Part II) - Episode 1

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Listening: Kawabe Chieko - Sakura Kiss
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I know I should be going to sleep already. But I'm here blogging anyway. Then again, drawing and writing are the two things that I always do on a whim neeways. This week had been a little more different from others before, so I thought I'll put it down here for memory's sake.

Defeat Toys

Okay, that's the title of my 35 seconds long animation for Studio Project 3. The title is derived from a map in the newly opened Omega Sector in Maple Story. (The map was called "Defeat Monsters".)

It's kinda violent, but I like it. My mum was saying that I have a very cute drawing style. So let's see: very cute + very violent = ?? Does that reminds you of anything? (Answer: here)

I only have the time to upload these two, but oh well. Joanne wanted me to upload the entire storyboard, but I... was lazy to. =x And pardon the sketchiness and messiness, those are just sketches after all.





Whaha this time round I used Joanne and my Maple Story characters. Since I already used Mum's for my 2D animation and Joey's for my 3D Modeling.

Sonic Adventure

Saru started playing Sonic Adventure!! Haha I downloaded the .cdi file and Dreamcast emulator via bittorrent. (I play only an hour or less a day though.)

If I'm not wrong, this is the first appearance of the chao. (And I realised that it's supposed to be pronounced as "chow".) And they're adorably cute!! (Hahah Jit, you will love them.)

Let me introduce them to you!


My first chao, nicknamed the "F2 chao". Because no matter what happens it he always just keeps smiling, just like the Maple Story F2 facial expression.


My second chao, nicknamed the "dao chao". Because it never really has much of a facial expression and always has the same face. His face is different here though, because he is swimming.


My third chao, nicknamed the "hyper chao", because he is the want that runs around the most, as well as fastest (because we fed him rabbits). He won a trumpet in a chao race and keeps playing it.


My fourth chao, nicknamed the "kuai chao". He's not very active, sleeps a lot, and hardly ever throws a tantrum like the rest do. He is throwing one here, because he is hungry. (Better than the rest who would throw tantrums just because they are being ignored.)


My fifth chao, nicknamed the "evil silver chao". He is really evil, one: his face; two: will be explained later. You'll see why I call him evil. But I like him most, he has the most personality amongst all of my chao. (And you can see the "dao chao" stoning in the background.)


My sixth chao, nicknamed the "gold peacock chao", because I later fed him peacocks, swallows and other birds, causing him to grow fanciful-looking tails and wings. He started off being very anti-social, hiding in the bushes instead of playing with the others, but I kept carrying him over to everyone else so he's a bit better now.

I have a seventh and eigth one, but I don't have screenshots of them. The seventh one is also gold, nicknamed the "gold penguin chao", because he was fed penguins and started growing strange eyebrows. He's the best swimmer of the lot. The eigth one (silver colour) was recently hatched, so I don't have much to say about it yet.


My "F2 chao" is resting in a cocoon. Haha you can see the "evil silver chao" and the "gold peacock chao" in the background.


How some of them look after being fed animals...


Everybody's giving me attitude here (they're all throwing tantrums) because I afk-ed and now they're hungry. So if you feed them coconuts, they'll be fine.


This is where I explain my "evil silver chao"'s evilness. Chao would have a "?" on their head when they're deciding what to do. (The balls on their heads represents their feelings.)

And after this screenshot, my "evil silver chao" decided to walk over to the three sleeping chao and give each of them a kick.

O _ O

And the three all started crying and throwing tantrums. I had to walk rounds and rounds to the coconut tree and back to appease them (or they won't stop crying). And my "evil silver chao" is always doing that, kicking other chao as well as pushing them into the water, thus making them throw tantrums. And making me busy. But I still like him. ^ ^


This "dao chao" is really cute. He keeps tripping and falling...


... and can still give that "?", then continue tripping and falling.


This evil chao has been sitting in the bushes for 10 minutes already. A nice change compared to bullying other chao I guess.

Sakura microns

yeps yeps Saru I quite happy with this purchase. I bought 4 technical pens to ink my animation with, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, and 0.8. Could also use them for future manga drawing. =P

Collab?

After looking through the bunch of modules we would be taking for Semester 4, Saru realise that NYP is trying to produce 3D-ers for our batch, because the industry has no more need 2D-ers. Ahh crap. I really wanted to be an animator or mangaka!

So Saru thought, I need a good short story for people to read (maybe online or something?) and recognise me first, before I can start publishing more mangas. So I went to ask Vincent (Secondary School classmate) if he could help me write a story. I've read his stories before, and I like his style (save for the vulgarities). We haven't had the opportunity to discuss any furth yet though: us both has busy schedules. But I really hope we could produce a manga together. ^ ^ (He has A's this year though...)

And Joanne told me that Felix (Secondary School schoolmate) published a manga and handed a copy to Miss Yeo (Secondary School teacher). And she told me that my art can 0wn his ten times over, so if his manga can get published, it should be no kick for me. =___= She has too much confidence in me na. Besides, I'm not as rich either...

13 SMSes within 5 minutes!!

I was surprised when CJ called me when it was almost midnight to tell me happy birthday. I was like, huh, ya meh, wait I check calender, oh really leh, ah thank you. Saru had been too absorbed in Studio Project to remember what date it was... >.<

And Zabyaru-taicho is sweet too, (oh no I said something I shouldn't have: now Xav's head is going to burst with his ego expanding like mad) he asked everyone to SMS me their birthday greetings. Arigatou, taicho!! Arigatou, minna-san!! And arigatou, Hui Xian for the poem! =x Whaha.

And if they ever ask me to guess the present later at school, I'll say "Stingray". Muahahahaha. In tribute to my who.

Will (probably, I hope) return later in the day to continue! See what happens at school today. >.<

Saru's going to sleep now. Stayed up the entire night to do layouts. And damn me for being too detailed... =___= Ohayo to everyone and oyasumi to me~

chionging out 6 datelines in a week is no joke...

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Listening: MOVE - Majestic Flight
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But I'm finally done!! Oh well kinda. I actually lied. It's not
chionging out 6 datelines in a week is no joke...
but
chionging out 4.35 datelines in a week is no joke...

due Monday - [3D Modeling] model of a human body - 10%
Dateline got extended!! Saru is gonna pia for it during the weekend. =D

due Monday - [Studio Project 3] storyboard - 25%
Due today too, but Mr Bhakta went home before we could show him anything. So Monday it is then. ^ ^

But THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU GOD FOR GETTING ME THROUGH ALL OF WEEK 17!! Saru will be relying on Yahweh-danna-sama's strength for Studio Project too! Honto ni arigatou~ Ore wa suki dai yo. =D

And as for Studio Project 3, the dateline is on Wednesday 30 Aug, presentation should be the on the following Thursday. It means that Saru won't be free until 3 weeks later. =x Whaha to those DMDers out there reading, all the best to us all for Doomsdayweek^s (Part II). XDD

Randomness

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Listening: Takacha - MOVIN !!
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Since I haven't been able to blog any time before 1AM in the recent days, I shall take this time to enjoy myself being totally random.

• I was talking to my sisters while drawing out my animation...
  
  And I said that if I were some "peaceful" person, I would take over Panama use the Mass Driver to shoot a giant lodestone into space in the midst of a battle between EA and ZAFT.
  
  Then, every single one of those Gundams, ZAKUs, BuCUEs (nevermind if BuCUEs are not supposed to be in space), GINNs, DINNs, assault ships, battleships and everything else made of metal will all just go flying torwards it. Whahahahaha. And nobody would be able to move at all. Aaahh but knowing them, some wise guy will decide to self-destruct his Gundam and kill everyone together.


• And sometime later;
  
  Joey: I want to be a coordinator!
  Joanne: I also want to be a coordinator.
  Me: I want to be a natural that 0wn all the coordinators~ ^ ^
  Joanne and Joey: =___=
  
  Whaha nobody wants to be an Extended or a Newtype. Because the scriptwriters always kill them off? Like, look at what happened to Orga, Shani, Clotho, Sting, Auel, Stellar, Rau and Rey? Eeeaarrgggh... I liked Clotho and Auel and Rau. And I like Stellar very much... she so cute~


• This has been the first time I've seen Joshua so freaked out, even though I know him since Sec 1. Oh well maybe that's because I've never been in the same class as him...


• CJ is getting more random and lame (and annoying). The result of stress. Whaha.
  
  And Mei Yun isn't any better.


• Xavier is grumpy when he hasn't enough sleep. And he is scary when he is grumpy.


• Lychee needs to do her work faster!! And with more discipline too~


• Joan is now officially my who. Because;
  
  Joan: Aiyo how can you be like that, I am your... who...
  Me: Oh I'm so sorry, my who!


• Mei Yun and Xian Ling (dunno spelling) wanted to use the comps in the PC lab to do their animation with Toonz. But Kun (also dunno spelling) chased them out because they were having Authoring class..
  
  So on the way out, Xian Ling pointed a middle finger at her friend. Kun saw it and told her friend to point back at her. The friend didn't want to, so Kun pointed TWO middle fingers at Xian Ling.
  
  Haha and Mei Yun was like saying, that since Kun is a lecturer, his one middle finger should be equal to their two middle fingers. So that means Kun was going 4 vs 1. >.<


• Walter said that I breathe louder than normal when I was stressed. (He was helping me with Toonz since the computer didn't like me.)
  
  And normal is already very loud! There are times where Xavier would purposely make everyone keep quiet so that they can all hear me breathe. He says I sound like Darth Vader. And the thing is I don't realise it myself...


• Rickson (probably due to stress) has his whole face covered with big red pimples.
  
  And he's the one going everywhere and suan-ing himself about his pimples in front of everyone.


• Shirley is pro in 3D animation! She can even dream about it at night. IKs, contrains, parent, orient and I dunno what else.


• Almost 50% of the animation students (I think) koped someone elses' rig/animation to hand in for 3D animation. >.< From someone in a different class of course. And we have two class of 3D animation... so each lecturer would have a set of identical .mb files?


• For those who did 3D animation, their characters all were flying, jumping, gliding, or even teleporting. Because running is hard.
  
  I remember that CJ's character did a funny turning, then a spider-woman. And Rickson's one did a jump hack, speed hack and a Saturday-Night-Fever dance.


• The FYPJ Room is freaking cold!! I think it's even colder than EXPO Hall 10. But Xavier thinks that EXPO Hall 10 is colder. @ _ @


• Strike Noir is so pretty that I can't see why they named it Strike Noir since it doesn't bear as much resemblance to Strike as Strike Astray Red Frame, or Strike Astray Blue Frame, or Strike Rogue or M1 Astray does.
  
  It's too chio to be in any way related to Strike!! Compare this (Strike) to this (Strike Noir). It is obvious that Strike Noir is way way way chio-er than Strike!! It's an insult to be called "Strike Noir".


• Whilst looking at Strike Noir, I went to take a look at my favourite Zaku (here). The name changed again!!! It used to be called "ZGMF-2000 Slash ZAKU Wizard". Then it was changed to "ZGMF-2000 Slash ZAKU Warrior". Then now it's called "ZGMF-2000 GOUF Ignited".
  
  "Slash Zaku Wizard" sounds way cooler! And people could get confused too. This is Yzak Jule's one by the way. Heine Westenfluss' orange one (here) is called "ZGMF-X2000 GOUF Ignited". So close...
  
  They really like to rename their Gundams. Knight Justice Gundam was changed to Infinite Justice Gundam. Super Freedom Gundam to Neo Freedom Gundam and finally to Strike Freedom Gundam. (This change I am glad of though, since "Strike Freedom" definitely sounds a lot better than "Super Freedom", which sound like, practically, crap. But I was totally unhappy about Athrun's Gundam though. I like "Knight Justice" better, since Athrun was refered to as "Red Knight" before, in a coded message sent by Kira.)

Okay, end of randomness. I think most people skipped through the part where I was ranting mecha-related stuff. =x


Whaha PlanetShakers!! Everyone's gonna be celebrating for a bit after the hell-ish Week 17 before we chiong for Studio Project again. Saru is looking forward to it na~

The assignments are really driving me crazy

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Listening:Casting Crowns - Who Am I
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Who am I?
That the Lord of all the earth,
Would care to know my name,
Would care to feel my hurt.

Who am I?
That the bright and morning star,
Would choose to light the way,
For my ever wandering heart.

Not because of who I am,
But because of what you've done.
Not because of what I've done,
But because of who you are.

I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean,
A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, you catch me when I'm falling,
And you've told me who I am.
I am yours.

Who am I?
That the eyes that see my sin,
Would look on me with love,
And watch me rise again.
Who am I?
That the voice that calmed the sea,
Would call out through the rain,
And calm the storm in me.

Not because of who I am,
But because of what you've done.
Not because of what I've done,
But because of who you are.

I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean,
A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, you catch me when I'm falling,
And you've told me who I am.
I am yours.

Whom shall I fear?
Whom shall I fear?
'cause I am yours.
I am yours.

Doomsdayweek (Part I)

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Listening: Suga Shikao - 19 sai
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My MSN nick says: "95% of DMD students display signs of insanity from Week 17 onwards"

and Shu Guo's says: "i'm the remaining 5% who's calm"

due Tuesday - [Web Design] online musuem for Adrian Frutiger - 100%
I did this comparatively (to the rest of my classmates) fast. Because I liked HTML quite a lot neeways. It involves both mathematical and linguistic intelligence, the kind that I possess most of. And I stayed awake for 35 hours (and knocked off for the next 14 hours) to do it. Go see it!! Click here. (Crap crap crap crap crap I realised my IE doesn't support transparency in .png images. ARRRGGHH. Stupid IE. Firefox forever!!)

due Tuesday - [Story] original 10 minutes story script - 25%
Was supposed to hand it up last week but I asked for an extention. Because of that, Alex Soh is going to deduct 20% of my marks.

due Thursday - [2D Animation] animation of superhero - 20%
I so totally screwed up this one!! My character looks like a PVC figure being knocked over by a flicking finger. I entirely made no use of the princicles of anticipation, follow-through or secondary action. Die die die die die...... Though, I thank Josua and Lee Yeung for the advice they gave.

due Friday - [3D Modeling] model of a human body - 5%
This is going to have to be chiong-ed out in a day. Another one I'm going to die for.

due Friday - [3D Animation] character rigging and animation - 0%
I swear I heard from 70% of the DMD students I met today that they are all just going to kope another person's .mb file to hand in. The question is: who will be doing it for us all to kope? The reason why we're doing this is because Jacques (we pronounce it as char-kuey as in youtiao in hokkien =DD) teaches way too fast and is horribly impatient and hot-tempered. It has been certified that it is impossible for anyone with an IQ below 150 to learn anything from him. (In other words, you must be a prodigy to get what he is saying.)


Coming Soon: Doomsdayweek (Part II) AKA Studio Project dateline.


PlanetShakers ultraviolet: I'm amazed at how my 25 tickets are all gone, and that I'm even in need of 1 more. Thank God for his grace!!