It Finally Happened...

[caraig]

They 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.

Comments

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

That's a lot funnier than dreaming in French (which I've never done that I recall, as I never attained fluency). I wonder what it implies that a visual style can be as affecting as a language? Should drawing be compared to linguistics as a manner of perception and interpreting the world, or is this sort of dream just what happens when you have any kind of pervasive influence in your life, and in any of these cases you'll eventually dream about the smell, taste, sound or visual style in question?

[caraig.livejournal.com]

I'm sure some of it is a pervasivness of the medium in my current life. =) Though it does raise an interesting question. Can the medium indeed be the message? It's a disturbing thought, actually; at least, for me it is. =) But at the same time, language can be considered an art for in and of itself: the skillful use of words. But even then, words themselves have meaning, and it is the weaving of those meanings together that we get poetry, communication, and prose. So the words are indeed separate from their meanings.

In this sense, 3D animation and writing and drawing *could* be considered modes of communication, an interface between the medium and the message, and one which can have profound effect upon both. Language, for example, can be expressed in drawing/painting, in books, in verbal speech; and can in turn express poetry, prose, and any other message.

I'm sure that if I was working with, say, scents, or sculpture, that I'd have dreams about it as well. =) But I would say that any mode of expression could be comparable to others.