It's been a very tiring week. I thought that last week would be bad, but this week was even worse.Seems like everything is jammed into the same week. First there was a 90 page movie study to do(printing that costed RM117 btw.whee...). Then there was the 42 pages of storyboard to complete within like 2 days, which included planning all the camera angles,drawing them out  and description writing.(which i still have to draw a few pages to draw and edit). Then there was the mounting and submission for the TOSCARs competition.Also besides that there was the character rerendering and editing for an upcoming exhibition, but that's just the small stuff i did without lecturer's consent, in class this morning. The exhibition is supposed to be set up on the 1st next month, so i dunno, but seems like the people in charge might be pushing it a bit asking us to refine our material until so late. So i ended up skipping sleep 2 day of the week and cancelling music class altogether, because a)I didn't have time to practise at all that week.b) I didn't sleep the night before ,and c)that day was the day that I had too many things on my to do list. On top of that, I am now very behind in advanced 3D animation class. I still have to make half of my target models, rig them and create an expression test by next week, have only 1 more week to do the actual animation, and 1 more week(week #14, finally) to do the rendering for both the actual animation and the expression test.

And no, YenYen, rendering is not a cheating process.Rendering to Maya is like printing to Words documents.Except it's more time consuming and has more settings.

Besides that, I went to a talk about Teesside university in England. They didn't have any twinning for the course I wanted, which was Games Art, but I was told that I might have a chance of starting in the 2nd year instead, if my portfolio and the list of the animation subjects are sufficient.But if that course is what I think it is(character design and modeling), then I really hope that I can get into it, since I prefer the designing more than animation part of production.

Sigh...I dunno...my course is called animation but i discovered that I'm not that into moving stuff about...I'm still that person stuck inbetween animation and illustration after all.I guess it's partly because in Malaysia we have so few choices when it comes to art courses.But when I have to do animation, i feel a bit stressed whereas when I'm doing designing, I don't mind putting in extra hours voluntarily and doing more research than necessary, and really 'feeling' what I do, know what I mean?Not just doing it to meet the dateline.It's just all the talk about if you are in the art industry, you'll be doing what you want and it all being like a hobby to you, and me believing in that, and then finding out that might not be true after all. I don't really fancy ending up as some mass production animating slave for the rest of my life...