Frustrated! Stymied!
May. 5th, 2003 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caraigDon't you hate it when you're toodling along ion a project and then someone in authority or knowledge comes up to you and says, "You're doing it all wrong," and worse, they're right? What makes it reallly irritating is that there's nobody to blame but yourself, dagnabbit. Courtesy of this ninor revelation, I have been put back about four-six hours on the character model. No wings, no cloth-model garments, heck, no model bound to a skeleton, no blend-shapes for facial expressions. In essense, I have pretty much, officially, built this character up from scratch all over again. At this stage in the game, that is not a good thing.
Still, if I can get all this done by mid-week, and animate for the follwing several days, I can get a playblast of the work I've done so far by next week's milestone and hopefully they'll accept that for the milestone, then I can spend the following week touching it up and then last week shanghai'ing computers left and right at ungodly hours of the night to render the final animation out on. That won't leave much time for compositing and editing, so I just have to hope I can get it right the first time.
Have had a minor ant problem near the computer. They're tiny little things, more like mini-ants, and only a couple or so at a time. Normally I have no problem with insects occupying their ecological niche. I see them as a vital part of the ecology of this world. However, truth be told, my apartment is not the normal habitat of any species of ant, the last I checked. Fortunately, I found a nice "organic" insect spray that uses certain plant oils and is relatively harmless to humans -- I say 'relatively' because, quite frankly, anything that has a deleterous effect on any organism is likely not going to be terribly healthy for any other organism. After all, arsenic can be used as a medicinal herb but that doesn't mean it's particularly healthy in significant amounts.
So I want to try to draw strength from this new-found 'lack of nihilism' which I've managed to force myself into -- believe me, nihilism sucks, because when you're of that mind then nothing really seems worthwhile. If anyone tells you they're a nihilist, back away slowly; either they're poseur-nihilists (Poseur... nihilists.... Hmm.) or they're dead serious nihilists and they don't care who knows it, and will just as soon disintegrate the city in some peculiar cheerfully-morose (Cheerfully... morose.... Hmm.) way, as give you the time of day.
Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah. So, I want to use this before it evaporates, and today's events kind of helped make it evaporate a bit. Part of me wants to go out of my way and try one last time to do more than just say 'hi' to that girl (who apparently is still going to the school) while part of me feels that I really dropped the ball already and should just ignore anything remtely like making new friends until I settle down and find a job. Meh. Not much to go for either one, at this point.
Anyway, I will sign off for now, and let myself be off back to resting up for clas tomorrow. I've done all I can with the model here at home. Stay Tuned! or something to that effect.
Non Sequitor Man Strikes Again: Did you know that there are internet radio stations which play NOTHING BUT 80's power ballads? I'm taking stuff like Bonnie Tylers "I Need A Hero," Stan Bush's "Dare," (someone's) "Iron Eagle." I'm serious! Fun stuff to get you in a "Go forth and kick some tuchis!" mood but how embarrassing trying to explain that to people! Whoops, I just did. =)
Still, if I can get all this done by mid-week, and animate for the follwing several days, I can get a playblast of the work I've done so far by next week's milestone and hopefully they'll accept that for the milestone, then I can spend the following week touching it up and then last week shanghai'ing computers left and right at ungodly hours of the night to render the final animation out on. That won't leave much time for compositing and editing, so I just have to hope I can get it right the first time.
Have had a minor ant problem near the computer. They're tiny little things, more like mini-ants, and only a couple or so at a time. Normally I have no problem with insects occupying their ecological niche. I see them as a vital part of the ecology of this world. However, truth be told, my apartment is not the normal habitat of any species of ant, the last I checked. Fortunately, I found a nice "organic" insect spray that uses certain plant oils and is relatively harmless to humans -- I say 'relatively' because, quite frankly, anything that has a deleterous effect on any organism is likely not going to be terribly healthy for any other organism. After all, arsenic can be used as a medicinal herb but that doesn't mean it's particularly healthy in significant amounts.
So I want to try to draw strength from this new-found 'lack of nihilism' which I've managed to force myself into -- believe me, nihilism sucks, because when you're of that mind then nothing really seems worthwhile. If anyone tells you they're a nihilist, back away slowly; either they're poseur-nihilists (Poseur... nihilists.... Hmm.) or they're dead serious nihilists and they don't care who knows it, and will just as soon disintegrate the city in some peculiar cheerfully-morose (Cheerfully... morose.... Hmm.) way, as give you the time of day.
Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah. So, I want to use this before it evaporates, and today's events kind of helped make it evaporate a bit. Part of me wants to go out of my way and try one last time to do more than just say 'hi' to that girl (who apparently is still going to the school) while part of me feels that I really dropped the ball already and should just ignore anything remtely like making new friends until I settle down and find a job. Meh. Not much to go for either one, at this point.
Anyway, I will sign off for now, and let myself be off back to resting up for clas tomorrow. I've done all I can with the model here at home. Stay Tuned! or something to that effect.
Non Sequitor Man Strikes Again: Did you know that there are internet radio stations which play NOTHING BUT 80's power ballads? I'm taking stuff like Bonnie Tylers "I Need A Hero," Stan Bush's "Dare," (someone's) "Iron Eagle." I'm serious! Fun stuff to get you in a "Go forth and kick some tuchis!" mood but how embarrassing trying to explain that to people! Whoops, I just did. =)
