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Waiting For The SHoes To Drop
Mar. 12th, 2003 09:13 pmAside from various unpleasantness in the news of late (which you can read about just fine elsewhere; I'm still peeved that VOA News was put under new management a bit over a year and a half ago and is now toeing a party line) there is the somewhat less-impactful unpleasantness in my own life.
Now, it isn't all bad. Last night a guest speaker came to the school, a man by the name of Scott Rays, a characer artist at Volition. Afterwards, I was glad to speak with him and get his card, and will be sending something reasonably good on to him for critiquing.
Part of me feels a bit dirty; I should be able to just talk with the guy as a respected professional, not holding some sort of concealed hope that he could be a potential job lead. But, there's nothing that says I can't do both. And to be quite honest, the job situation is looming more and more over me, heck, over us all. I'm not having any of those "I should not have come here" moments, fortunately. I just know that it's going to be hard getting a job, that's all.
Warning, the tangential tracks of my mind being allowed to wander follows.
"Lucy Cassidy" is a pretty energetic piece, with pipes, drums, guitars, fiddles... kind of a 'folksey' style *twitch* but very very energetic. Makes me almost wish I'd learned caildhe, Irish dance. Yes, yes, I know, Lord of the Dance Dance Revolution.... =)
Since most people I know have heard me complain about lonliness before... nuff said.
Oh, yes... commence kvetching. There's a little 'issue' with out Computer Special Effects project grade. The project had to be turned in at a certain resolution, 720x480. Turns out, that all the playbacks came out at 320x240 -- which is pretty much worth five points off the project grade. Why? Well, Windows Media Player has some wierd setting that shrinks the size of movies encoded with the Microsoft DV codec. You have to go into some setting and turn that off. Now, it's one thing when a couple people have a resolution issue, but something QUITE another when ALL of the class less two or three people (who encoded with a different codec) have the same problem. We are computer animators, not WIMP programmers. (DAMN YOU MICROSOFT! DAMN YOOOOUUU!) Anyway, hopefully this'll get resolved and we'll get a slightly higher grade for that really abyssmal class. Still waiting on the Compositing and Editing class grades.
Anyway, enough for now.
Now, it isn't all bad. Last night a guest speaker came to the school, a man by the name of Scott Rays, a characer artist at Volition. Afterwards, I was glad to speak with him and get his card, and will be sending something reasonably good on to him for critiquing.
Part of me feels a bit dirty; I should be able to just talk with the guy as a respected professional, not holding some sort of concealed hope that he could be a potential job lead. But, there's nothing that says I can't do both. And to be quite honest, the job situation is looming more and more over me, heck, over us all. I'm not having any of those "I should not have come here" moments, fortunately. I just know that it's going to be hard getting a job, that's all.
Warning, the tangential tracks of my mind being allowed to wander follows.
"Lucy Cassidy" is a pretty energetic piece, with pipes, drums, guitars, fiddles... kind of a 'folksey' style *twitch* but very very energetic. Makes me almost wish I'd learned caildhe, Irish dance. Yes, yes, I know, Lord of the Dance Dance Revolution.... =)
Since most people I know have heard me complain about lonliness before... nuff said.
Oh, yes... commence kvetching. There's a little 'issue' with out Computer Special Effects project grade. The project had to be turned in at a certain resolution, 720x480. Turns out, that all the playbacks came out at 320x240 -- which is pretty much worth five points off the project grade. Why? Well, Windows Media Player has some wierd setting that shrinks the size of movies encoded with the Microsoft DV codec. You have to go into some setting and turn that off. Now, it's one thing when a couple people have a resolution issue, but something QUITE another when ALL of the class less two or three people (who encoded with a different codec) have the same problem. We are computer animators, not WIMP programmers. (DAMN YOU MICROSOFT! DAMN YOOOOUUU!) Anyway, hopefully this'll get resolved and we'll get a slightly higher grade for that really abyssmal class. Still waiting on the Compositing and Editing class grades.
Anyway, enough for now.
