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In The Lab

I’m in the computer lab at school right now, once again working on my ZeroG animation. I’ve never put so much time into an animation before; I’m excited to see how it turns out, but it has been a daunting project. I’m hoping to have it finished enough to submit it to the spring show.

I have all the main animation blocked out on the character, now I’m working on blocking out the food. I’m creating reference curves for each piece of food to help get a natural looking arc as they fall and then bounce around. Once I’ve got that finished, I’ll finish blocking in the facial and hand motions. After that I’ll have some minor adjustments to make, then I should be able to convert all my curves from stepped to smooth. At that point I get to dive into the graph editor and tweak all the curves like a mad man.

I’m not sure how much I’ll get done today, but hopefully I’ll get to the point where I can convert the curves so I can adjust all those tomorrow.

I feel pretty good at the moment, I’m fairly focused though a bit tired. I’d rather be working on some personal projects today, but homework it is. By the by, it’s another wonderful day in San Francisco. The weather has been amazing the last two days. I’ll probably take a lunch break in an hour or so and sit in the park.


A Self Fulfilling Prophecy

I’ve been wanting to take night photos at the Berkeley marina, but keep putting it off. It’s been so cold recently that I haven’t been able to work up the motivation to get my ass out there. I figured I’d post about my intent to make it tonight, because I can’t lie on my blog, so now I’m totally obligated to go. I’ll check back later and we’ll see how that went.

I made it up into the Berkeley hills last week, twice in one day actually. I first went up during the day to check things out and to learn the route. Good thing too, the streets are really confusing up there. I found some nice areas along Grizzly Peak Road with a full view of the bay, it was really impressive. I look forward to making more trips up there. I want to catch it when San Francisco is being swallowed by clouds, I want to go up on a misty day and or night, and I want to make it up there on a really clear day. I’d also like to take my telephoto lense and get some nicer shots of San Francisco.