Not so good at blogging

right i have decided im not to great at blogging so if your reading this and you care at all then im sorry that there havent been that many updates etc, but hopefully there will be a couple more over summer and then an outragous onslaught of posts for my second year antics.
so whats been happening since mid may?....not much really, saying that i got all my work in on time, with HOURS to spare, probably a record for me. now im enjoying my break, taken up a few more hours at work to pay my way through summer without student loan.

THE LAST PROJECT!
so here i will discuss a little about my final project and how i found it. the title character acting really excited me because i hadnt actually animated a character as such (walk cycles etc) so was looking forward to seeing whether i could do it or not. The freedom to choose a dialogue clip myself was also good because i found it fun and because it was something i had chosen i found it a lot more personal and a lot more engaging and easier to find the motivation and drive.
i chose a scene from the film Jay and Silent Bob by writer and director Kevin Smith. its 15 second clip with two speaking characters. so i thought how hard can it be? VERY. i really didnt think it was going to be as hard as it was, pretty much as soon as i started i felt like i was running down a very long, dark and endless tunnel with very little hope for me getting a good grade. after a while of hitting my head against a wall i decided my downfall was animating by blocking out and that why dont i try what i find easier and do straight ahead animating? so i did a slowly but surely it all fell into place and started to work. after working very very relentlessly i got it done.
a couple of problems along the way one i have already spoke about with the blocking out instead of straight ahead animating. the other problems was some of the blocked out parts were still hanging around which meant along the way i had a couple of hic-ups that i had to iron out.
but right now im in the lake district having bbqs and beers so ill finish this here.
bye
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