Saturday, June 6, 2009

Wow, it's been forever!

So I wanted to make a blog just to say how TOTALLY excited I am to see 9! I keep watching the trailer and I am just in love! It looks so amazing!

Anyway I have been working pretty hard the last few months on my Sunshine Day Animation. It is coming along pretty well. You can view a few pictures here, www.sunshinedayanimation.blogspot.com

School is going well. 4 Classes this quarter sure did make things much easier! I have 4 next quarter as well, with one of them being online so it is only 5 weeks long. Then I only have 2 for my last quarter. Yay :)

Thats about all for now.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

My website!

So it is up and running with a great new look. I would have done pink but I thought it might not be so appealing for all the pink haters out there.. lol Purple is still pretty enough for me. Anyhow, I just finished week 8 of classes today. Only 3 more weeks of these classes. Man time flies lately.

Oh great new news! My sister and I just decided to collaborate on a project. She is directing a short that I am going to animate in 3D. I will need to model and rig 4 characters, build a couple scenes and then animate it in the next 9 months or so. I want to use it for my CalArts application! (yay!) So I am stocked to get started as soon as she gives me some direction and I make her some storyboards.

Not too much else is new here. Have a good day!

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Oh man, I am bad about the updating! lol

Wow, what a busy couple of weeks I have had.
Midterms went really well, and the grades were excellent. I have been working very hard on my animation pieces for my production team class, which I feel are looking pretty good. I think everything will turn out pretty well in that class.
I redid my dad's website recently and I am actually very happy with the results of the makeover. www.DavidMeeks.com <-- Check it out! I wanted to learn ActionScript 3.0 a little better and so I revamped my dad's site in the process. Although I have barely even dented AS3.. hehe
I want to write more but I have about 6 hours of Lynda.com tutorials I want to watch and play with so I will write more later :)

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Coraline, Corpe Bride and Nightmare Before Christmas!

I have been watching all of the previews for Coraline and I just have to say I am sooo excited! I think it looks great! I watched one of the previews last night and then watched Corpse Bride and NBC right after. I LOVE the look and feel of these movies and it just makes me even more excited to see Coraline! I hope one day I can make something so visually stunning!

Light - Linking in Maya

So the other day I came up with this great idea for a animation I wanted to do. But I needed to have certain lights focus on certain objects. I havnt been taught yet how to link lights but I figured it could be too hard. So I google searched for a tutorial and came across this one which I just wanted to post because it really helped me out :)

http://web.alfredstate.edu/ciat/tutorials/LightLinking.htm

-Anna

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Okay so the stress is kicking in!

3 weeks in so far for these classes. A little stressed! lol All classes are going extremely well, I just feel like I cant get much else besides homework done! I hate having so many projects in my head I would love to spend some time on and then not having that time for any of it. I suppose thats how the rest of my life will be though.

Anyhow small update, my castle is really coming along. I have spent about 40 or so hours on it already and still need about 10-15 more to have it complete. Here is an updated picture.


Anyhow of course the draw bridge and much more needs work. I would like to build a little garden type area in the "courtyard" inside the castle walls. As well as something beautiful to go around the outside. I am having so much fun on this project!

Well I need to get up early tomarrow and get to school to work on my production team homework so I am off to bed. Hopefully I can update some more later!

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Prayers for Bobby

Wow.. I have not cried so much in a long time. What a tragic story, with such an emotional subject. I think this movie was simply amazing! Sigourney Weavers performance was .. beyond amazing.. and I recommend this movie to anyone. I just needed to say that!