#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.

#8

Rag week. School was off, but I found a guy who is setting up his own media company, and I am helping him setting up a visual image for it. Didnt have any access to computers though, so my 'work' was mainly doing scetches by hand.

#7

So, Toni and Toni from my homeland arrived on Monday. Hey are neat fellows, stick mostly to themselves, but so do I so we get along fairly well. Drinking was heavy the last week: on thursday I had to show Galway around to the finns, thursday was students night out (met some cool swedes), on friday this one chick from an art class I happened to randomly run into a couple of weeks before had a birthday party, and on saturday I just had to take it easy.

School? Still the same projects. This week I was very pleased that the tempo of studying is much easier than in Finland. Also ran into a fellow who is starting his own business. He might give me some projects to do for building up his firms visual image.

#6

02.02.2015-13.02.2015

A week went by so fast I forgot to update the blog (woops). Nothing super special happened, but it was generally a good and fun week. On Monday, we continued with the ad. I got to the editing phase, and realised that summarising three movies in a one minute ad is insanely hard. I edited one punch line with a conversation from two movies and had already used 30 seconds.. this is going to be a serious tetris challenge...

3D continues to be a challenge, not because the assignments are hard (in fact they are much easier than anything we did in Finland) but blender continues to speak a different language than me. I really miss my Maya. On other courses, we are learning script writhing and storyboarding in debt, something that we lacked in our education back home. So while studying here is not as fast paced, I feel that I am getting something of it, which is good.

As far as health goes, I have finally killed of the otitis, but now a some kind of tumour has grown under my left eye. So yeah.. from one problem to the next. I really hope to avoid having to operate it.