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Name: Nicky
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Metro: Chattanooga
Birthday: 4/26/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: umm....i draw (anime, cartoon, and real life), sculpt, paint (when i actually have paint), write poetry (i have some of them published in bookz!!), write shortstories, write fanfics, and am generally insane!! i also work in maya.
Expertise: umm....i donno....i'm good at math, art, writting (although not spelling) and science. err.....umm....yeah.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art: Character Animation
Message: message meEmail: email me
MSN: obsesseddigigirl@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  digifreakgirl
Member Since:
6/24/2003
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| weeeee... i'm in sound design class right now.. 8D
did u know that changes in pressure that cause weather patterns is like sound, except that the pressure changes over hours and days instead of seconds and minutes? does that mean that if time went by faster for us and we had a wider range of hearing, that we could hear weather changes?? 8D just a thought.
i rung in the new year playing Maple Story.. D8 how sad is that??
meh...
but our assignment in this class sounds kool 8D i think i'm gonna like this class. 8D
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| MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! 8D holy shiznit... i haven't posted here for a whole semester. D8
my grades....
American History.........................B-
Last Day Events...........................A
Raster Graphics...........................B+
Sculpture.....................................B
Collaborative Studio....................B+ no C's this time 8D YOSH!!
sooooooo... anyways.... i don't think Chris likes me. and... i think i'm ok with it.. or, at least... i'll be ok. i think. but there's this other guy who may or may not like me, but acts towards me very similar to how i've been acting towards Chris, so that's what makes me think he might like me. anyways, i'm pretty sure he's a fellow aspie, which is kool. i'm thinking i might talk to him. he's pretty cute, too. 8D
meh... not much to say.. my life is boring. i've been dog-sitting... poor Oscar has 3 bad disks in his back, so i have to be very careful with him... he might need surgery... so, if anyone would be willing to pray for a little weenie pup, it would be appriciated. ^_^ also, my cousin, Matthew, is in Iraq right now... so he also needs prayer. especially since he got suckered into the whole thing. DX when he joined up, it was to fund college... and they assured him that he wouldn't be sent overseas.... damn liars. D8 well, i'm off to work again. ^_^ happy holidays everyone!! <3 | | |
| ok, so i haven't updated in far too long... >_>
well, school's been out for awhile now. i ended up with:
Earth Science: A
Storyboarding: A-
Character Animation II: B- >_<
Character Design: C+ >_<
my first C since 7th grade >_< but that class was crazy hard!! and 2 of my classmates didn't have time to finish the project... so they have to retake the class. i think i might retake it, too.. if i have an opportunity. i just think there's more i can get out of the class. but we were expected to do stuff even our upperclassmen haven't ever done!! >_< baaaah... it was a crazy hard semester, in general. my only easy class was Earth Science. well... Storyboarding was easy, too... but it was also time-consuming. Animation wasn't hard... just too time consuming.. i didn't have time to make things pretty.. Y~Y but.. i think most of my classmates were in the same boat as me... most of their final animation projects were just as if not more unfinished than mine. i think the only one who managed to actually finish everything, and do a craaaazy awesome job on it, too, was Matt.... he is teh awesome.. @w@ *worshipz*
i was gonna work on this "Rock in the Road" animation thing the upperclassmen wanted help on, this summer.. but, after asking me to apply for it, my teacher denied me.. >_< i was like... "then y ask me to apply in the first place??!! O-o" eh, oh well. my greatest disappointment about it was that i later learned that Chris was accepted to work on it.. D8 IT'Z NOT FAAAAIIIIRRRRRRRR!!!! i wanted to work on it with Chris... Y~Y it coulda been an opportunity to actually talk to him... get to know him... working on a project with him like that... Y~Y but nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.... damn it. >_<
so, instead, i'm working on a crazy insane animation project with a couple underclassmen.. 8D we're still in the modeling stage right now, though... >_> but i didn't have access to Maya... so Doug let me borrow his laptop!! how awesome is that?? 8D and Stephen is a fellow aspie (and probably Doug 2, honestly..) so we have crazy fun random convos... it's so much fun!! plus, we meet every Sunday at 2pm in the boys dorm lobby and eat pizza while we look at eachother's progress. last time we were there, i saw Chris!! 8D i was so happy!! i hadn't seen him since May 1st. D8 i was starting to go through withdrawals.. lol. he was vacuuming.. 83 it was teh awesome.. <3
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| i really don't update this thing often enough. >_>
i have 1 more regular week before finals week... >_< soooo...buuusssyyyy..... *diez*
to do:
- Character Design class
- figure out what's wrong with the hair and how to make the long pieces pretty for the turn-around
- finish making Keman look good for the turn-around
- animate the camera for the turn-around
- render the animation
- apply ncloth to the vest and attach it to Keman
- make it so it won't go through him
- animate the walk cycle
- render the walk cycle
- put together my character pack
- turn everything in before end of year show
- Character Animation II class
- finish redoing "cat slips on can"
- make playblast of redo and show Hendel/turn in
- fix rotation on big!Bruno when he looks at little!Bruno
- finish shot 3
- animate all the other shots (about 5)
- playblast/render all shots
- put all the shots together and add music
- turn in before end of year show
- Storyboarding
- find out if it's absolutely necessary to fix "shmeaple"
- "animate" girl falling down and turning, and camera panning to flames
- figure out how to make fire in maya
- rig ceiling to fall
- animate ceiling falling on girl
- animate scene with girl and fireman
- render both interior shots and exterior shot
- put together and add music and sound effects
- turn in before end of year show
- study for final
- take final
- Earth Science
- daily homework/quizzes
- sun pole 2
- 10 day weather forecast accuracy thingy
- personal statement 3
- study for last test
- take test
- getting ready for working on "a rock in the road" this summer
- put together my portfolio
- finish filling out the application
- find out if school credit will be given and for what
- turn in application and portfolio
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my last day of class is the 30th... and we start working on "a rock in the road" on the 5th. that means only a 5 day break before starting work. >_< and it'll be 9-5 every day, 5 days a week. >_< on the plus side... nothing required in addition to that.. aka: no homework. 8D anyways, "a rock in the road" may or may not be the actual name of it, but it's this year's juniors' animated short. there aren't very many of them this year, so in order to get it finished by the end of their senior year, they're recruiting underclassman to help them during the summer. it's a good opportunity, and may or may not count towards our required internship. either way, it'll look good on our resumes. i'm hoping to do prop/environment modeling. 8D i love modeling...
areas of my field i like:
- modeling (loves)
- animating (likes)
- cleaning up the graph editor (i actually like this process)
- making blend shapes (doesn't mind too much but will avoid out of laziness if possible.. XD)
- making blend shape controllers (doesn't mind)
- texturing (if using photoshop)
areas in my field i dislike
- texturing (if using zbrush... i really hate zbrush >n<)
- dynamics:
- hair (not too bad but tooo time consuming and a pain in the butt)
- ncloth (i can never remember how to do it... too complicated)
- attributes:
- making squash/stretch controller (again, too complicated)
- making other limitations or other kinds of attributes (toooo complicated!!)
- rigging:
- actually building the rig (not tooooo bad, but i have a hard time remembering sometimes how to parent joints so i waste time with trial and error)
- making controllers (i can never remember how... something about IK handles or something....)
- attaching the skin to the skeleton (actually not a problem at all.. this is an easy step)
- painting the weights (pain. in. the. butt. >_< and it's impossible to make a rig look 100% awesome in all positions)
soooo.... i'm hoping to go into modeling. i just hope i can get good enough on modeling characters that people can actually make good blend shapes for... that's my only reason for not wanting to work on characters just yet. but i like the stuff that involves a lot of detail-oriented repetitive stuff.
anyways, enough about school.. >_<
Strawberryfest was today... but i didn't go... so i'm gonna have to get my yearbook from the student office. i was gonna submit something for the art show, too... but i didn't. eh, oh well... there's always next year.
my sissy came for a surprise visit this weekend!! 8D i really missed her, so it was good to see her. she says she'll come visit again next month. we played apples to apples last night... fun game. 8D then, we went to the olive garden today and she treated us all to brunch. 8D i ate 7 raviolis that cost $11 o_o plus, i ate 2 plates of salad, 4 bread sticks, and my mom's spaghetti side dish that she didn't want. i also drank 4 glasses of tea. then i ate this desert... strawberries, and this chocolate cake/pudding.. thing... and warm cream... it was really good. i ate the strawberries and chocolate thing separate, though.. cause i don't like chocolate mixed with fruit. but my sister had them sing happy birthday to me... which was embarrassing, but fun, too.
my birthday is on Saturday. 8D i'll be 22. O_O where or where did the time go??!! 4 more years, and it'll be my star b-day.. XD
anyways, my sis celebrated my b-day with me early, since she can't be here next weekend. ^_^
ok, next topic. i go in to see the neurologist on Tuesday... really hoping for an official Asperger Syndrome diagnosis. when i saw him last, he kinda brushed me off. DX he was old-school and didn't really know the first thing about AS.. >_< i realized this as soon as he said "i'm reluctant to diagnose you, because it doesn't sound like you have a mental retardation, but a social one."
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WHAT THE HELL DOES HE THINK ASPERGER SYNDROME IS???????!!!!! DX that moron.
symptom # 1:
"Not pick up on social cues and lack inborn
social skills, such as being able to read others' body language, start or
maintain a conversation, and take turns talking."
more info if anyone's interested. >> http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/tc/aspergers-syndrome-symptoms
sooooo.... i'm gonna keep persisting until he diagnoses me. after all, it's a free clinic, so if i wanna keep seeing him, i will. and he'll keep seeing me until either he leaves the clinic or diagnoses me. and if he leaves, then maybe the next neurologist will be more competent and give me the diagnosis i require.
well... that's enough for today... looooong post... o_o
ok, i'm going to bed now. it's 2 am and i have to get up at 8. ja ne, minna!! ^_^
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