Some of that red stuff.

Hey I figured since I haven't been in contact for awhile i figured i should at write up some sort of holiday greeting wishing everyone a happy near and christmas. So the last time i "blogged" was at the beginning of the summer. Needless to say, alot has changed. For one i'm taking like 6 college level classes but the good part about that is that one of those classes is film. It's a pretty fun class and i'm learning alot that i didn't already know so that's good.
We made our first films during the school period before christmas break and even though mine turned out pretty crappy, I learned alot and I know my next project is gonna turn out tons better. I think i might even post that one on youtube.
So on the whole learning animation front that's not really going to well either (maybe you're starting to see a trend lol) but I got this dvd on character animation for christmas so i'm gonna try that out and if i don't have anything to show after i'm through going through that then i know this isn't the thing for me. I might just have to live with bein a music man.

the SSSUF

So my summer is really starting to kick off. I think I'm actually starting to get into the swing of things. And by things I mean my Summer Schedule of Super Ultra Fun (until further notice it will be refferred to as my SSSUF). I'm about to start my Online Summer Classes in about a week and tomorrow I'm goin to spend the month of June at my Dad's house. And even though it can get pretty boring at my Dad's house the boredom allows me to get more work done since there's nothing to distract me. So starting tomorrow the SSSUF is gonna be on hyperdrive.

Star Wars documentary is epic

For the last year or so I've been becoming increasingly more interested in film as an art form and using it for story telling. And since i've become more interested in film, whenever I watch a movie on dvd i usually go to the special features and watch the making of that particular movie (wether it be bad or good so I can know how not to make a movie and certain things that can improve a movie). This weekend was my first weekend of summer vacation so to celebrate I decided to watch the original Star Wars Trilogy. And after I finished watching it I followed suit and watched the special features (which turned out to be a full out documentary).
I would highly reccomend anyone interested in film to watch the making of Star Wars documentary. I learned alot about George Lucas that I never even knew before. For example, I had no idea that he was actually an independent movie maker and that Episode five and six of star wars were both fully financed by himself. And by the time the first trilogy was completed, George Lucas had started like five major film making businesses.

Behind schedule but Still Going Somewhere

Ok so i know i said that I wanted my outline done by the end of the week but tomorrow's my last day and I still have alot to go. I think I may have spoken too soon when I said that I'd have it finished up in a week. Or maybe I'm just not spending enough time on it. Well either way I'm going to start putting even more time into it.
So today I finished scene 10 and half of scene 11. I think i have about like half of the story knocked out, but the parts I've done so far have just been the easy parts. Now i'm starting to get to the real beefy part of my story. And believe me when I tell you that all vegetarians should step out of the room now cuz it just gets more and more jiucy from here on out (lol its fun to be cheezy, no pun intended).

My story is actually moving along

So I'm not sure if you've known or not but I am currently writing an amazing story that I one day hope to make into an animation. But unfortunately i've been work on this story since pretty much the beginning of the school year and all I've managed to get done is half of an outline.
Today however I was able to get a bunch more of the outline done. I'm going to try to get the rest of the outline done before the week is out and then maybe I could finish up the script before the summer is over. And yes I know that 3 months is maybe a little too long for just to write a script, but I have alot of things to do this summer and I don't want to give myself a deadline I won't be able to fill.

Gotta Stop Slacking

Ok so the school year is almost over except for one more week, which is for finals. But after that, the freedom of summer awaits me. Summer is practically what I've been waiting for for the majority of the school year. And yes I know that summer is what all little boys and girls dream of, but for me summer vacation has a different meaning. It is the oppurtunity to not only catch up on, but also get a leg up on my work (no pun intended you sicko).
So this summer I have a few tasks to complete under penalty of death (well not really)

1. Actually do something with Blender, my animation software. Cuz I've had for nearly a year and I'm still pretty juvenile at it (even though i'm not quite sure that's the right word to use). But anyway I think i'll be able get better at it once I get Blender for Dummies.
2. Learn and Memorize all my scales for clarinet. I'm not really sure if this is possible to do in two months but I sure can try.
3. Get a job. Nuff said.

I know there's more stuff but I can't really think of them right now. I'll probably remember them later. Well until the next time TTFN.

Myspace withdrawal

Lol the funniest thing just happened to me. So I remember my friend talking about something on her myspace page that she changed that she wanted to show me but she never got too. So just now i decided to find out what it was that she changed.

So i went over to myspace and attempted to login. But myspace just brought me back to the front page and wouldn't let me log in. Obviously, i tried again but it didn't work for a second time... but it still didn't work. So i tried again, and again, and again. After a couple times of trying this I finally remembered that i had deleted my myspace. LOL. Aren't you glad that i built up all that suspense for such a lame ending. Yah but that just shows you how exciting my life is that i can be amused by such trifle things.