#12

I humbly apologize to all the dear readers about the silence. The internet in my accomondation didn't work for a week, and I was too occupied with projects at the school to remember to update it here. I finally have Maya to work with 3D, so I can ditch that abomination called blender and actually get some stuff seriously done.

There has been requests to add pictures to the blog. I have no idea how to add pictures from a Jolla phone to a computer, but I could add some random go-pro videos once I get those edited. The promblem with that is again that I dont have an editing software and in school I don't really have the time to edit them. But I'll get them there, even as raw if I have to.

Weather continues to be random. Usually we have fours seasons in a single day. My host's cat gave birth to a bunch of kittens. Everyone is exited about easter, guess its bigger here than in Finalnd.

#11

Back to normal day to day life.. for a few days that was. Then st. Patric's day came. The locals had hyped it so much to be "grand" and "unreal" that I thought it could newer live up to the expectations. I was happily proven wrong. Paddies truly was unreal, easily one of the craziest days and nights of my life.

Not many made it to school the day after.

#10

Work experience weeks are done. We didn't finish our stopmotion, but that was to be expected, because we emphasised on real industry level quality rather than rushing it to be completely finished. It was a good experience over all, though the many times we had to re-shoot entire sections of footage just because someone had touched something on the scene by accident, and that was sometimes quite irritating.

My only regret was that we newer got to the point of actually applying the backgrounds on the greenscreen, because those were largely made by me. The teachers seemed pretty happy with our work though overall, so there shouldn't be anything to complain about i guess?

Waiting for the dreaded Paddies day...

#9

Alright, we are doing a stop motion project now for two weeks. The teachers who lead the effort seem professional, and we are doing all the steps you would expect the industry itself do, which is great!! After we were finished with character concepts, i got in charge of making the backgrounds of the animation, which will be green-screened later, once shooting is done. I don't think we will ever reach that point though, as the progress is way too slow to be finished in just two weeks. The teachers seem to be fine with this though, its more important that we learn and familiarise with the actual steps of the project than rush everything hastily.