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Friday, 23 October 2009

  • Oh School, why must you waste my time.

     I've reached the point where I no longer gain anything from going to class. That is, my school has taught me everything they can, but that won't stop them from milking more money out of me. I have Advanced Prototyping, which is where I build a game with a team of people, and the game is alright, it's nothing special, and not at all my style, but still, it's alright. Here's a demo.

    Here

    Also, I have Advanced Animation, which would be benificial if I wanted to be an animator, but I don't. Our final project in that class is to animate a 2 minute story, but I convinced the instructor to let me do the cinematics for our game in prototyping, because honestly, if my animations for any of my stories looked anything less than the quality of Square-Enix, then I would not be satisfied.

    Lastly, I have Career Development, which is a joke class that costs way more than it should. A complete list of assignments for the entire course are as follows: A resume, a cover letter, a reference sheet, and a mock interview. I had 3 out of 4 done before I even walked in the classroom.

    So, I have been neglecting to do some of the work required by my classes  to instead work on stuff that will actually get me a job. If you play the game demo there, you'll see that nothing is graphically impressive about that game, and nothing in that game that I made or worked on can I use in a portfolio, aside from the game itself. Right now, I'm reworking my model of Ellie,

     EllieStudy

                   (that girl)

    And as soon as I get that done (it's taking longer than it should, due to the school forgetting to reactivate our 3d.sk account), I'm going to actually work on an environment again. It's been a while.

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  • Never Put Me in Charge

    The other day we had a group exercise in my career development class. The exercise was this: It was the nuclear apocalypse, and we had a fallout shelter. Besides our group, we had to pick 6 out of 10 people to allow to stay in our shelter for 6 months, the rest had to die. The teacher organized our groups based on our major, so the Game Art students got grouped with me (there were only 3 other ones), the rest of the class was pretty much fashion, fashion marketing, and interior design (read airheads with rich parents (actually some interior design students are cool)). Here's the list of people and the information:

    1. Bookkeeper; 31 years old
    2. His wife; six months pregnant
    3. Black militant; 2nd year college student
    4. Famous historian-author; 42 years old
    5. Hollywood star, young, bright
    6. Former prostitute; "retired" for 4 years
    7. Rabbi; 44 years old
    8. Olympic athlete; all sports
    9. Architect; homosexual
    10. Police Officer with gun (they cannot be separated)

    Now, the point of this exercise was to simulate how employers form biases on titles and hire on very limited information. All the other groups made morally sound decisions that, in my opinion, were dumb, like, saving the pregnant lady, and killing the cop because he had a weapon. We had to select a group member to go up and explain our group's decisions, and my explaination went a little like this:

    "First off, we killed the pregnant lady, because a baby would just be another person, and a crying baby in a cramped fallout shelter with no diapers? No. So obviously we had to also kill the bookkeeper, because all he'd do is bitch about how we killed his wife and unborn kid. Next, we killed the Rabbi, because I'm pretty sure our food supply isn't kosher. Also, we killed the prostitute, because I'm sure there's a reason she's retired.

    We didn't kill the athlete because.. well, anyone that competes in ALL of the Olympic sports is a god damn legend! We kept the Architect, because he's probably gonna build pillow forts or something, and that'll keep us entertained. We kept the police officer, because his gun is apparently infused into his hand, so it's pretty obvious that he's Robocop, and if we said no to Robocop, that wouldn't have panned out well for us. Everyone else, eh, they got lucky."

    All I'm saying is, I'm not killing Robocop.

Monday, 28 September 2009

  • KILL IT WITH FIRE!

     Well, it's been in denial for a while, but lets be honest. My Xanga is dead. It's not you, it's me.... well, it's a little bit you... it always is in this sort of relationship. It has mostly to do with me being insanely busy with school, but a little bit of me not exactly liking the direction the xanga community is headed. The drama used to be funny in small doses, but that's all Xanga is now. Anyway, I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing, and I'm certainly not disappearing from the internets, you can find me on facebook and deviantart, both usernames are the same as they are here.

    So, talk to you later, all 6 of you that still actually read this.

    http://www.facebook.com/DrugInducedDuck

    http://druginducedduck.deviantart.com/

     

Monday, 21 September 2009

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Monday, 31 August 2009

Friday, 14 August 2009

  • Egoboosting conversation:

    Her: "So I see you ignored everything I said about sticking to modeling environments..."

    Me: "I wouldn't say I ignored you. I listened, but promptly dismissed it."

    Her: "Forget about when I said character modeling wasn't your strongpoint. I'm also done giving you advice."

    Me: "What can I say, everything I touch turns to awesome."

     

    Progress so far on my final:

    CharlieHeadFinished1

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

  • Art Post

    This is my Model Sheet for my character Charlie Brasseaux that I'm modelling for my Advanced Modelling class. I'm also modelling the plane.

    CharlieSheet

    This is a sketch I did of Lillian Rose while riding down to St. Louis on a train. I don't think it turned out too bad considering how bumpy the ride was.

     

    Lillian

Sunday, 26 July 2009

Thursday, 23 July 2009

  • Music Roots

    I love music, simply put. If you recommend a band to me, I'll listen to at least one of their albums before I make my judgement, and even if I don't love the band, it's hard for me to ever hate a band or artist. The problem is that everyone's favorite bands these days are the ones on the radio, and I'm sure it's always been like that, it's just hard to find new stuff.

    Recently, Pandora put a 40 hour limit per month that you can listen without paying. So now I have to construct my own playlists once again, and rely on other methods of finding new music (not that pandora was really very good for that, since they always played the same stuff on every one of my stations). To remedy this, I've been spending my free time in Reckless Records looking through vinyl and reading the mini-reviews on the bands, and talking to people to find out what they recommend.

     There are some people out there that know a lot more about music than I could ever hope to, people that can tell you every band that inspired other bands for their musical styles, even the smalltime ones. These are the most useful people in the world, because 90% of the time, the inspirational roots for a great band are just as good, if not better. Also, I learned a long time ago that "The Greatest Hits of [insert era here]" never were, and that even if you think you don't like a band based on what they play on the radio, listen to the rest of the album to see if their actual style reflects the single.

    So it pisses me off when I hear someone call a great band that has inspired countless bands on their sound garbage, especially when that band inspired the very same bands that this person listens to. For instance, today there were some hipsters in there talking about how terrible The Doors were, when I'm pretty sure none of their shitty indie bands would exist without the influence that bands like The Doors put out there. Unless I'm joking, I will not ever call a band as important to music as that anything, because even if they're not my type of music, they clearly did something great, and I have to respect that. How can you appreciate music without appreciating where it came from?

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

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  • I told the voices in my head to shut up once, and after a moment of silence, one of them said "Cake would taste good right now..." And for the first time, we all agreed on something.

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