Don't spill the beans!!

So last night me and my roommate were talking about cleaning up the fridge and moving stuff around, and he had mentioned that he still had this can of beans in there. Now this can of beans was bought from Sam's club when he first moved in, so it's been in the fridge for 6 months and he's only eating it a couple of times (he doesn't like to throw a lot of stuff out). So I told him we need to clean some crap out of it because he's never going to get around to eating it anyways. He didn't want to throw it out either that night because he states "he's lazy" but I told him we should and I would walk with him to the dumpster. So I go to my room to throw a shirt on and all of the sudden I hear this scream of horror and sudden disgusted laughter. I peak my head around the corner and was asking him what was wrong. He said to take a look at the can of beans......and this is what i saw:

You couldn't pay me a million dollars to eat that crap!!!

Here's the can of beans that was in the fridge for so long

Here's my crazy roommate....some of you know the stories....and yes, he plucks his eyebrows!

So anyways, I was obviously disgusted by the beans and we went and threw them out. I have a physics final to study for tonight and I hope that I do well on it tomorrow. I guess I better start complaining!! LOL

Hope all is well with everyone, don't be afraid to post comments either = ).

***side note*** still teaching myself how to encode the quicktime player into this blog so that way I can get my animation posted and you can loop it to watch it continuously....that's the best way to watch it. I will also have some more drawings from my animation class up tomorrow and some nice things to say about the class and the teachers.

peeling away the years

I got bored earlier and decided to put this peel off mask on. It was too funny though because I have never been able to peel off the mask and have everything still stay in tact. Luckily when I peeled it off, it stayed all together as 1 piece so I had to post it because its awesome.....look at all of those dead skin cells, lol.

physics update....1 more test to go

So I got into class yesterday and it was nice because it was a very short day (kind of pointless to go to class) but anyways, I got my grades for the last test. Before I had gotten the test back however, the teacher said "would the following people stand up"...he had called a couple of people, then he got to me and I stood up. He told everyone that the people who were standing up had scored a 90% or higher. I was very very happy! So if you're wanting to know what the score was on my test, it was a 100% = ) I feel relieved, but now there's 1 more test to go and we'll see if I can still pull possibly a B or a high C. I certainly don't want a D, that's for sure. So I will be finishing up my flipbook today (which is almost done) and then studying for the final and doing a couple of chores that I have to do.

I was up til 5:45 this morning working on my flipbook. I also talked to a good friend for awhile and it was nice to catch up. Thanks!

I tried to load the animations last night again, and the blogger uploads them, but then it never processes them....it just sits there and says processing for 1/2 an hour (annoying) I'm going to see if I can find a way to embed quicktime on here so that I don't have a problem anymore, I was doing some tests last night, but it's been weird w/ youtube and the blogspot video displayer. So you'll see the videos when I finally find a way to post them right!

That's all of the new news for today. KEEP MOVING FORWARD

The physucks tests!

I was trying to post my animation earlier, but the blogger video kept taking forever to do anything so I think they might be having a problem right now. I will try again tomorrow. However, I did do some extra credit for my physics class. My teacher said to just draw something physics related, so I decided to draw this. A little violent yes, but I hate cats...and so does he!! = ) So i'm sure that he'll like this and i'll get my 10 points. If not, at least I had fun drawing it.
I also took my 3rd physics test on Thurs. There are only 4 tests in the class and each one is 20% of the grade, so there's a little bit of pressure to do good on your tests or else you fail rather easily. My first test I got an 81% (not bad), my second test I made a bunch of little mistakes and I got a 47% on it (ouch!!). The 3rd test that I just recently took, I'm pretty sure I made between a 96-99% (amazing) and then on Tues I will have the final (dramatic drum sound). Hopefully I will do ok on the final. (Notice I didn't say great, I just want to pass = ))..) I really don't want to repeat this class!! So I will be studying a lot this weekend as well as finishing up my flipbook for my animation class.
As far as everything else goes, it's ok. Just lots of pressure at the end of each month since you have so much to do in so little time. I of course want an A in animation so I tried to put as much as I could into what I was doing, so we'll see what I get. As far as physics goes, I feel i've been doing fairly well. I remember for the most part what I studied and I can honestly say that these past 3 months of math courses have been the best that I have ever done since the 6th grade!! (I kid you not!) Math has never interested me in the least bit, but these past couple of months I have taken interest in bits and pieces of it and I find that I learn the most when I complain about it! LOL.

So I came up with a style of learning that helped myself study and could possibly help others study as well. So here's my method for people out there who have always had problems with math and studying for it. Just complain about it! Through complaining you'll come to realize how much has actually been retained in your mind and it's easier to remember the things you hate....honestly....just think of any song your entire life that you just couldn't stand to hear no matter what...then think of the lyrics for that song...more likely then not, you will remember the lyrics because you hate it so bad that you can't help but mock the living crap out of it. So anyways I'm going to call my style of learning...The Fuller Method...*copyright* (you read it here first)

Now the only reason I did so bad on the 2nd test is that according to my method, I didn't complain enough. So this weekend there will be a lot of complaining by me!! lol. But, you also have to remember that you need to look at what you're complaining about as well. There has to be some visual or auditory part of what you're studying in order for it to sink in. Because if you're just complaining about nothing and not knowing what you complain about, then it doesn't work. = ) Simple enough. "Wow...that sounds great, tell me more" "well, glad you asked, for a small price, I can teach you this method and send you many dvds on how to complain and learn through complaining, like a pro. However there is no money back guarantee, because I can't help you if you can't complain good enough.... and if you can't complain good enough, then you're retarded!"

Well that's about it for now, if you read this whole thing, then good for you, you're making me proud to write this and are a great friend, etc. If you didn't read it all the way through, then I hate you and you're not a true friend!!! j/k (but really, go kill yourself) = P

Light is Right!

So here's another fun update! I built myself a lightbox for my animation class and future individual animation studies that I want to work on. I was going to head over to my friends house yesterday to use his computer table which is glass. What is convenient about that is you can put a light underneath it so you can see through your pages (so it resembles an animation light table). However, the only problem with going to his place is that I didn't want to drive half an hour out to Universal Studios which is what he lives by, so instead, I went to target and started figuring out what I would need. I found a really good cheap picture frame, that uses a cardboard backing for 5$. The frame is plastic or something, but it is thick and sturdy so I figured it would be useful since i'm going to be resting my arm on it. The next thing I needed were lights. I found a package for 10$ which had 4 LED lights and they used AAA batteries (which i already had) so i picked that up thinking it would be enough light. However it wasn't and since Target didn't have the right size florescent light, I went to Walmart to buy it for 8$. It works great and I have no complaints. I spent 20$ on something that normally costs about 160$, so anyone interested in building one, this is the better way. I might later on go to home depot and have them cut some thin pieces of wood so I can make a deeper box, but for now, this is excellent. Here are some pics.

This is what it comes out to look like, there is a place on the side where I will need to cut a part of the frame out so it will lay flat, but depending on how soon I get to home depot, I think i can settle for not cutting anything right now. On the very bottom you'll see some tape and a rectangular strip with some pegs coming out. This is what I use to hold my animation paper in place. you'll see further down.

This is what it looks like with 1 page over it, you can obviously see a lot so there's no eyestrain whatsoever, plus I think it looks kind of cool for a crude design = ) I tested it and it can hold over 8 pages that you can see through, which is really good. normally i just work with 2-6 pages depending on what I need to see. When i'm flipping the pages, I don't use the light since it will make it harder to see my movement.

This is one of the things I did in class today. As part of our anticipation project, we are to make a character that's sitting down, stand up. Sounds simple, but it takes some planning, so I drew out some thumbnail sketches to test how I wanted to stand and this seemed to work for me. I will show you the rough and finished results by Friday or Saturday so you can see the animation = ). when it comes to these key poses, you really want to exaggerate the curves because when animation moves fast, you need more time to show that your character has life and dimension. I felt really proud when the teachers told me that I have good artwork. It means a lot coming from professional animators. The arrows on the pic describe my plan of action, and the arrows on his face were just to give me an idea of where I want him to look so I can draw it out better when i'm working on my scene. Friday will be our "Finesse" day which is where i'll get to finish my animation and fine tune my drawings so that they can be the best that I can make them in the 8 hours that we're givin in the day.

Well, that's all for this update, til tomorrow or Friday. I have a physics test tomorrow, so wish me luck!!