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August 19, 2010

Updated

By jay

I finally got all my daily images updated, 32 I had in the backlog, ouch! Here’s to trying to keep up on posting them on time! There were a few gems in there, some sketches where I felt things were coming together. Most of them suffered from a lack of time put into them. Most of my time was taken up with my summer class, I was okay with that since I was painting so much for my assignments. I figured when class was over, I’d get back into putting more time and effort into my daily drawings. Now that class is done with, but I have a lot work! I’m drawing all the time for it (work), but I’m still slacking on my daily’s.

I’ve seen this happen to a lot of artists, where they get their industry job and then have no time for their personal art. I’m not in the career position yet, but with these couple freelance gigs taking up a lot of my time, I’m seeing myself fall into that similar pattern of behavior. I’m glad that I’m aware of it though, it’s something I’ll try to head off before it becomes a habit. The obvious first step is not waiting until the end of the night to do my drawing/painting. By then I’m just tired and want to go to sleep, so I rush the process.

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August 5, 2010

Hello World

By jay

I sure have fallen behind in posting my daily images. I think I’m almost three weeks behind, ouch! I’m taking a summer class, Color & Design, and it has been extremely time intensive. Last Thursday I was painting one of my finals, this one a landscape, for almost 13 hours straight. It has been hard to make the time for my personal drawings, so I’ve been doing a lot more sketches, rather than paintings.

I’m almost done though and while I had initially had no interest in this class, I’m very glad I took it. I’ve taken color theory before and so the thought of retaking such a class sounded like a drag. This class though ended up being more of a painting class and we just applied color theory to our projects. I like that.

I have a few work related projects that are really coming together, I’m having fun drawing in my style, but for others projects.

My main computer got hit by a virus of some sort yesterday, so I’m in the process of getting that taken care of. I really hate it when my computer goes down (for whatever reason). It ends up being a splinter in my mind that I can’t really forget about until I’ve fixed it. Luckily there’s a lot of scanning time involved so that’s allowing me to step away and get other stuff done.

Some exciting news, last Friday I got an email that I had been accepted into one of the Pixar animation classes. This class is taught at the Academy of Art, but has instructors from Pixar coming over to work with us and run the class. I’m looking forward to really nailing down my core set of animation skills and building out from there. A good goal for myself is to do more animation “studies”. The same idea as quick sketches in drawing, I need to be exercising my animation skills in smaller, easier to finish, projects. My drawing skills have been really benefiting from that type of exercise, it’s really time I applied that to animation as well.

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November 27, 2008

A chance to breathe

By jay

Today is a me day. I’m cooking good foods rather than eating out and working on personal projects. I’m painting the sketch from my last post and I’m planning on doing some new drawings. I’m listening to the new Sigur Ros album, I’m digging it. They are selling their album for download off their site, awesome!

Today and tomorrow are the first two days off in a row I’ve had in…well, a few months. I’m going to take the opportunity to watch some movies tonight, it’s probably the only time I’ll have to do so until the end of December when school gets out. I plan to watch the Dark Knight and perhaps some anime. I’d like to watch Honey and Clover or Haibane Renmei as well, but my housemates are going to be out this evening, so maybe not. Maybe some Ghost in the Shell though, I’d like to finish watching Second Gig!

Speaking of gigs. On top of school and work an old client of mine recently asked if I wanted to do some product renderings for a design he has. I’ll post some shots of that as I go along. It’ll be fun to do some 3d modeling again.

Come winter break, I think I might tackle a new theme for my blog. I’d like to change it up some, though I don’t have any specific ideas yet.

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October 21, 2008

The times, they are a changin

By jay

Well I’ve been rather lax in making blog posts. I don’t feel that I’ve had any free time between school, homework and work and I typically feel like I need time to feel I can sit down to write.

So the triple-boot didn’t work out. I could get both MacOS and Ubuntu to cooperate, but Windows wouldn’t play with the others. I ended up going with a MacOS and WinXP dual boot, that way I get my productivity and gaming covered. Ubuntu was going to be an experiment in alternate, and interesting, operating systems. Well, another time.

School is going well, I feel like I’m learning lots. I spent six hours working on my 2d animation yesterday (we’re animating the flour sack character jumping off a crate). I’m keeping mine really simple so I don’t get distracted. I got about 80 frames drawn yesterday, I’m going to shoot it tomorrow night and see how it’s looking. There are some sections that really looked promising and others I’m not sure about.

Far Cry 2 comes out tomorrow, I pre-ordered it last week and I’m hoping Kimi can pick it up for me while I’m at school. Or I’ll just get it on Thursday. Now hopefully I’ll actually find some time where I can play it!

Not much else I feel like saying at the moment, just wanted to give my blog some love.

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September 21, 2008

Homework at Home

By jay

This weekend has been the first in some time where I’ve had two days off in a row, I feel like I’ve finally had some time to rest. During the week I always have two days off from work, but then of course I’m at school those days.

It’s tough, I really wish I wasn’t working at all so I could put all my energy into school, but I’m enjoying work so much, I’m getting to do lots of things I’m really interested in (baking, food prep and soon I’ll be getting training on the line). Bill keeps joking that Kimi and I will probably take over the Bread Workshop, that really caught me off guard. I’ve always had a dream of having a bakery/cafe/small restaurant. I’ve no idea what the future holds for me, and there’s no way I want to stop pursuing animation and art in general, but all of a sudden it seems like that dream has much more of a chance than I’d have thought. Interesting.

I have a lot of homework to get done today. YCON starts this weekend and lots of friends will be visiting. I’m starting with my 3d animation homework as I find it a lot easier to focus and get started on computer work.

I just ordered a new 24″ iMac, I’m looking forward to getting that setup. I had thought of getting a new tower instead, but the iMac includes a gorgeous monitor and has such a small footprint (I should be able to get rid of both my g5 tower and pc box), that I couldn’t resist. My work area at home isn’t ideal at the moment, I have the aforementioned two towers next to my desk, two keyboards and mice on my desk and it’s just too much. I can’t wait til it’s simplified, I think it’ll work much better for me.

I’ll still be using two monitors, so I won’t lose that functionality. I forgot to order the mini dvi to dvi adapter though, so I’ll drop by the apple store before school sometime this week.

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