Tea Time with Ari- Week 8

==>It's a nice, bright day with a light breeze. You're walking by the local stores and you hear me calling your name. I'm sitting at a small table in the comic shop with some tea, and, wowie- there's a cup for you, too! Take a seat! We've got some tea to spill.<==

As you may have noticed, I totally skimped out on last week's blog. Oops! Totally wasn't intentional. In all seriousness, I will likely finish the main blog from last week as it was pretty important and most of you really liked what I had going there. (I don't expect any points from doing so, it just felt like it's a good thing to do.) In our class, last few weeks we learned about particle systems (so cool!!), cloth, brush sets, and Premier. That demo video was as cringy as possible and I'm not gonna complain. I've already got a few ideas on how I'm gonna make this project presentable beyond belief.

I'd love to learn more about Drive, Ambition, and Motive when it comes to animation and art in general as some of these things burn out faster than a poorly lit wick for me. Even in my more ambitious and fun ideas sometimes I can't grip them hard enough. I'm pretty sure it's a problem of my way about doing things, as when animating in 2d I don't block out the entire thing first- I do it part by part, finishing it in chronological order and polishing along the way. The way I SHOULD be doing things is blocking out with rough shapes throughout, and then finishing what I can cut out the swiftest and move along with polish and pizazz. I'll be trying this in the final 2 animations we have. Dunno whether to be scared, intimidated, chill or a mix of all and more. I just hope our final project has a somewhat action-themed prompt like "Last Stand" or something. I could run and fly far with that in that case.

Frustrations these last few weeks came in the forms of sleep deprivation and plan demolition. I try to be good at planning hangouts with my friends but sometimes it just falls through. I tend to stay up for no reason when I know I function better working early waking up than staying up. When I do stay up, I often try doing important work but it takes 3X more time than it normally would because of the hazy, likely caffeinated state I'm in. I'm crunched for time a lot, as I have musical rehearsals M-W-F until 5 PM, and I need to find a job somewhere, along with learning how to drive, finding an endocrinologist and getting my documents legally corrected. I don't think my parents can see the urgency I have about the last two.

Kingdom Hearts III keeps me sane and I'm getting more used to digital art in my spare time. I have a 95.6% average in school, and I'd say I'm cruisin'. That's all, really. Not much else to say. Ferrets and Otters are cute as heck, though.

This link of interest comes from Deviantart in the form of "How To Balance A Character" with two links, one on Powers and one on Personality. These helped me get a better understanding of writing my characters and what to consider when animating them.