The Story Continues

• Learned

I've learned to do quite a few little neat tricks in Adobe After Effects! I haven't quite mastered them yet, but that will come with time.

• Want to learn

 I need to find some new fonts for my Kinetic Type project, so I guess I wouldn't mind figuring that out. I'll have to do that on my own time, though.

• Frustrated you

 Family stuff as usual. I guess I'm also having some issues keeping up with my Participation in Government final project... It's been a bit rough... and the holidays certainly aren't helping.

And it certainly doesn't help that I've been horribly distracted as of late. Ultimately, I know it's my own damn fault, but that doesn't mean I like it any more.

Also, I was told around the beginning of the Fall season that I would be getting a new work laptop and when I asked yesterday, I was told that I wouldn't be. It was a little upsetting, but all I can do is just continue dealing with my current laptop. I can manage until graduation... I think ^^;

• Made you happy

 Close friends. They tolerate me, and that is more than I can possibly ask for.

I've been joining a lot of online art livestreams online. I have met so many amazingly wonderful people and I've had so much fun but I've also lost a whole butt-load of sleep as a result. These people are often 3 hours behind me and when they are livestreaming at 10 pm, it's already 1 am here, but I don't regret coming and watching the artists work. And everyone is so kind and supportive! And I've even met a few people that I never would have guessed I'd ever meet, like two of my favorite Mystery Skulls Animated Ghost voice actors "Chi-Chi" Bowyer (Vivi) and P.W. Gerkman (Lewis). They are both wonderful ladies and words could not describe how I felt when I got to talk to them. Even Helios, one of the "Ghost Masters" came to the livestream! It was amazing! Later into the stream, Gerkman started posting audio clips and the entire chat box started freaking out (with love) and we all kinda started posting our own audio clips in response. It was amazing... Thank you Emily and Kait for introducing me to Tumblr (and subsequently ruining my life lol).

• Link of interest 

 Actually, I have a few links of interest (WARNING: Second link contains illustrated nudity. Click at own risk)

http://surikitsuna.tumblr.com/post/104532303739

http://surikitsuna.tumblr.com/post/104488955979/dianekraus-so-my-hips-tutorial-has-gone-over-4k

http://mysterybensmysteryblog.tumblr.com/post/104134537163/i-know-this-might-be-an-occurring-question-but

• Comments on the link(s) of interest

The first two links are images, the first one being a bit of a comedy bit and the second one being a leg drawing tutorial (Warning: Nudity). I thought it would be nice to share. I've been finding a lot of tutorials on Tumblr and it's really nice because they just kind of show up out of nowhere and they become easy to find. Learn a little something every day!

The last one is another tip from Mystery Ben on Tumblr. It mainly deals with Adobe Flash, but I'm sure it can apply SOMEHOW to Toon Boom Animate Pro 3. Ben is always giving out little tips and tricks for Flash animation. This one deals mainly with audio syncing (and using a metronome-like graphic). I like to keep up with his blog and I hope that one day I will get to try these tips out for myself.