the culmination of the chaos to ensue!

If you found yourself back here yet again this week, i applaud you.
The fortuitous results of the last two weeks have resulted in my turning 16, punching holes in my face, a rethinking of my past and what is to come in the future. A detailed examination is to follow.


The main premise the BOCES class has followed for the last few days were those of a more technical nature, fishing into the mechanics of Harmony's cameras and utilizing the "node view" (i don't know why, but i have a distaste for the word "node") and playing around with the technicalities of effects and puppetry. Nothing too schmancy, but it was a worthwhile learning endeavor. We reviewed FPS math, and i was reminded how alike Sam Carter and any other cats are. I didn't know Dwonathan Daniels and i were only 6 hours apart in terms of birthdays, with me being older, and how Sam is a fine craftswoman who can whip up a sketchbook with ease.

I'd enjoy learning about efficiency in animation, how to take shortcuts without cutting corners or lowering the quality. That may sound just like laziness, coming from me especially, but i've noticed that these things take tons of time to do. Usually, on bigger projects, there are teams of animators, and i'm assuming they have all mastered using the same style of animation and so they're compatible together. i still don't know which direction i plan to go for my story, but it directly involves both an RPG and a comic. i have yet to propose at what time to formulate my escapade, however. i barely know what medium to do it in! watercolors are messy, lineart can go bad, i get too tedious with digital, everything's too saturated with digital or markers, and prismacolor pencils take too long.

Frustrations blooming from the week mostly pinpoint my discrepancies within myself, nothing really related to school is involved here. The only education-related thing i can think of would be that i ca barely participate in any afterschool clubs due to BOCES, but i did sign up for this and it's proving to be well worth it already.

The fountain of happiness is blessed by the relationships i have with all my friends, and reminds me that no matter how small you think you are, you're making an impact on someone's life. Whether or not it's a positive or negative one is up to you.

This week's link of interest is brought to us from Peter Draws on Youtube. He's a man tumbling through life at his own pace, and his voiceovers for his illustrations are relaxing and inspiring. It's somewhat like audiovisual ASMR, but also with a tinge of originality. He explores a wide range of mediums, from papers, inks, skin drawings, woodburning and more! This is one of his most popular videos, one spoken from legends of grinding ink and crafting something abstractly amazing with it.