It Finally Happened...
Mar. 9th, 2003 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caraigThey warned us this would happen in the first few months of us starting the computer animation program. I thought that, okay, it might happen, but I'd never really notice it.
Well, O Reader, I noticed it.
When I realzied what had happened, I was startled that it had. I couldn't believe it, and yet it had taken place.
I had dreamed in wireframe.
First off, I should explain what that means. In most 3D software packages, the model is presented in wireframe -- it's edges. It looks like a cage of sorts, in the shape of the object. Look at chicken-wire models of something and you'll get the idea.
So, obviously, it's completely unnatural to dream of an object, any object, in wireframe. And yet, apparently, 3D students do so. And I did. Oh, the horror!
So, Animation in 3D class. It's going reallly well,a ctually. I find I have a bit of a knack for animating objects, characters specifically. Every part of the body moves; knowing that makes it actually easier. The hips twist; everything above the hips will also move, and so will the legs. Extend an arm; your body follows it, and part of the trick is, if the gesture is intent enough, to get the character to point not only with their hand, but with their entire body. So it's going rather well. =)
This weekend I need to re-do my model for Final Project; that'l be coming up next month, and then it's crunch time in an extreme way. So right now I'm just playing Neverwinter Nights and trying HARD not to think about looking for a job afterwards.
Well, O Reader, I noticed it.
When I realzied what had happened, I was startled that it had. I couldn't believe it, and yet it had taken place.
I had dreamed in wireframe.
First off, I should explain what that means. In most 3D software packages, the model is presented in wireframe -- it's edges. It looks like a cage of sorts, in the shape of the object. Look at chicken-wire models of something and you'll get the idea.
So, obviously, it's completely unnatural to dream of an object, any object, in wireframe. And yet, apparently, 3D students do so. And I did. Oh, the horror!
So, Animation in 3D class. It's going reallly well,a ctually. I find I have a bit of a knack for animating objects, characters specifically. Every part of the body moves; knowing that makes it actually easier. The hips twist; everything above the hips will also move, and so will the legs. Extend an arm; your body follows it, and part of the trick is, if the gesture is intent enough, to get the character to point not only with their hand, but with their entire body. So it's going rather well. =)
This weekend I need to re-do my model for Final Project; that'l be coming up next month, and then it's crunch time in an extreme way. So right now I'm just playing Neverwinter Nights and trying HARD not to think about looking for a job afterwards.
