Day 9
Time to burn the midnight oil (quite literally the candle is called midsummer’snight) but hey do what you can do to make the environment pleasant and get cracking. Also featuring my keyboard and weights I am in training mode albeit the night owl version.
Really looking forward to getting some work done this weekend. I’m going to keep this short. Because I encountered some annoying errors and I have to restart some things from scratch. On the great side of things it’s getting a lot faster to do stuff the second time around and that kind of showing me that maybe I’m learning something. Great I always wanted to be my own technical director, which hereto in my life meant that person that the artists always have to ask everything “technical” of. They can be incredible in a production environment to have at least one around but relying on them in anyting you could be doing yourself can be a bit of a crutch. For example when I was with uh Manoa we had a grear teacher, fantastic technical director, he was decent a teaching art they really knew how to leverage tech to get stuff done but we never thought we could. I loved his class and I got all the assigned books. I went through the hell of 3D animation when you really don’t know how to use program that ends up being your problem most of the time. Unfortunately after all that — our teacher got Lost.
Yep that’s right, he got pulled away to work on the set of Lost. It’s kind of unbelievable but like the namesake he went and did that for half the class. He was teaching us for first few sessions and then all of a sudden he just kind of got hired on to a movie cast never came back — until the finals which was an interesting bell curve let me put it that way. The only one who passed was the person learning through self study and some mentoring outside of class. He just didn’t teach us what he had to impart. Which was a shame you can it turns out he’s the guy that worked on final fantasy movie, terrible but beautiful, making all those amazing planet backgrounds from spheres. Yep the actual model is a one-click prefab, he did in the script Mel script to be exact. That he was the guy that made those teleporters in Star trek.The Effect was achieved by basically shining flashlights / blue glitter dispersing through a glass. They gave him like a minimal deadline and so he gave them a curt answer. But that’s what created something iconic we have today. It’s partly because the man knows how to work smart but it’s also because he was able to put a lot of experience behind it and in combination that’s why technical expertise can really shift our perception of the world. Aside from watching the way that he worked —which I sure did learn from — you really kind of left us in the naissance I’m learning to be animators. I think that may have been a really bad he for some people to get and then subsequently lose interest at the rate of dropping off of nearby cliff. Fortunately I redirected the burden of my education to my own efforts. That worked out for me but it would have been a really lied easier if I’d had a teacher or mentor at the beginning it was basically willing to stick with it. At least I think I may have found that for programming so hopefully it won’t take me as long. and where that learning languages is always progressively easier with the next and then the next … maybe that applies to all skills. One can only hope.
