3Ds Max Scene

This is my final for my 3D modeling class! Everything in this picture is something I made! (OK, except the windows, the program sort of does those for you!) The fence, the guy, the stone, the sword, the bloody head, the castle, the table, the glasses sitting on it. I also found and added all the materials, including the guy's clothes. It might not look like much, but it's 10 weeks worth of work and I'm pretty proud of it! 

Bloody head!!

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know - it's creepy. It's SUPPOSED to be creepy! I worked on this for HOURS at school last Friday, my teacher tried to help me with it, and we just could NOT make it work. But I FIGURED IT OUT! And then I rewarded myself with a frappuccino and a scone. I totally deserved it!

PS Since I was totally vague with saying what I was trying to make work, it was just the blood the head has been done for a couple of weeks, and YES it has eyeballs, they just weren't mapping correctly on my laptop. They'll be fine once I bring him back to school. JEEZ, I'm excited! I'll show you the whole scene when I'm finished!

Sculptris

A program for sculpting heads!! Or other stuff, I guess, but it all stars with a sphere. This makes me ridiculously happy. I KNOW it's not a great head or anything, but it's my first (all right, second) try! Hee hee! So happy!

What the ITT Tech commercials don't tell you

That's right, people. This is what we did in my Instructional Design class. Then we went out in the hallway and threw them. Whoever's when the farthest won. It wasn't me, mine was about average. Still, it was fun!

The use of You

I've noticed a lot of people make art and/or journal pages with the word YOU when I wish they would say I. "You are enough" is not as powerful of a statement as "I am enough". We already mostly feel like the people in our lives are good enough, that's why we love them. The statement we need to see and hear and tell ourselves isn't about YOU. It's about I.

I am enough.
I am loved.
I am beautiful.

Say it. Write it. Put it in your art. Feel it.

That's me. I'm in class right now. Hair up and messy and needing to be colored. Didn't brush my teeth. It was 104 degrees today and I walked back and forth to lunch and Michael's and haven't showered yet. My shirt is from 2001, which is actually declared on my left sleeve since it was a gift from my big sister in SAI. I'm struggling to make a 3D castle in Autodesk 3DS Max 2012 (teacher is helping someone else right now). I'm wearing shorts, sneakers, and two different socks. I AM ENOUGH. Non-showered, messy haired, unbrushed teeth, mismatch socks and all. It's ALL enough. Perfectly enough. And If I can make a castle? So much the better.

Confession Time...

I hate raising my hand to be called on in class. I don't want to share my knowledge with people who don't bother to study!! Yes, I'm that person who screws up curves - who needs a freaking curve? Yes, I'm the person who reads all the pages I'm supposed to and does all of the homework and buys the "recommended" books in the syllabus. I don't even know why. I'm not trying to screw up the curve, I swear. We're supposed to do homework and study and read the recommended books, aren't we?

Thursday Night's Notes

I love ITT Tech. A lot. But sometimes class is just BORING. Instructional Design is a hard class to teach, I'd think. It's a class about formulating instructions. How do you teach someone to teach someone something? Anyway, I tried to pay attentions, I really did. And I took a ton of real notes, too, I swear. But then I just couldn't handle it anymore and I started to doodle. First a teeny gnome, while I tried to resist the urge...

Then an entire page...

Then another!! I couldn't stop...

The Sword in the Stone

My first 3ds Max lesson!

This was super crazy fun!! I love learning a new program!!

Economics final!

OK, well, this is what you do when you have an A and it's the day of the final and either you know it or you don't and the rest of the class (except ONE other person) is asking a million last minute questions...

Drawing in pen is SUPER freeing because there's no way to "fix" stuff. Eyes aren't perfect? Too bad, they are what they are! Crooked lips? Maybe she's smirking. Smeared ink across the hair? Left-handedness at work.

Photo Restoration

This was a lab for one of my classes. It's NOT my image, I got it right here. My teacher was impressed, which surprised me. He taught us how to do this, then he was surprised that I could? Either way, I'm pretty proud of it. I used to do similar stuff when I worked in a one-hour photo lab, so I had some experience, but still, it was nice when my teacher turned and stared and me and said "You did this tonight?" 

The sepia tone isn't exactly right, the original picture is slightly more orangey, but I think it looks pretty good!

A teeny tiny change

This was completely surprising to me. Maybe the whole world knows this already? If so, how come no one told me?? This is the mom from my Angry Banana animation (I got an A, by the way, AND my teacher showed it at the end-of-quarter showcase - the ONLY one he showed) and here she is looking happy:

And here, angry:

So, anyone who is familiar with photoshop can see the background. This is a digitally drawn figure, I made her in Flash, so when I tell you that the top one and the bottom one are the EXACT same one, I don't mean I redrew her the same way or made a copy somehow - it is LITERALLY the EXACT same face except in one she has angry eyebrows and in the other she doesn't. That is the ONLY thing I changed. I'm the one who did it and I can still hardly believe it. Is this amazing or am I just crazy? (Wait - don't answer that...)

Full Brain

I know it's a terrible picture and you can see my toes peeking out on one side and my son on the other, but I'm just too tired to take a new one! It's been a difficult semester for me and I'm not really sure why. My animation project, for sure, but it doesn't seem like just that. Rapid Visualization was hard for me, too, because it was so ridiculous most of the time. We had to make up new senses for the human race and design an alien race. All the projects for Typography have been a struggle. I'm not used to struggling in school. Math, Science, English - I can do ALL of those things easily. Music, too, and computer programming. This is the first time I can ever remember school being hard. Really hard. Luckily next semester I'm only taking one major class, along with Microeconomics and Math. I'm good with classes that have a question and an answer.

Valentine's Day at ITT Tech!

The boys came to have dinner with me (I get a twenty-minute break). How cute is that?? Tim got us Outback! Liam loves the brown bread, so it's a win for everyone. It was fun to have dinner with my guys instead of my usual PB&J.

Angry Banana storyboard...

In case you didn't already know, I get really freaked out about "projects" when it comes to school. (Or work, or life, or basically everything). For my Flash class, we have to make an animation. It has to be a MINUTE long. So far I've been taught how to make eyes blink, a ball bounce, smoke, and buttons. I don't KNOW enough to make a whole minute of stuff. So I'm going rogue (I've already done so a few times in this class and my teacher keeps giving me these baffled looks) and I'm learning crap on my own. What choice to I have?? 

This is my storyboard, he gives it to us to do in class and he looks mine over, doesn't smile, and then says "Good. It's good. Very ambitious, though. A lot of drawing."

Thanks for the support, Teach. Now I'm determined to make it the best animation to ever come out of his class. Why couldn't he have been like "Wow, that's ambitious, maybe I can help you"?!? Don't even worry, I've got it covered. But this kind of thing pisses me off - assign me a task, then imply that I can't handle it?? 

Introducing Angry Banana....

This is for a school project, of course, the final in my Interactive Communications Design class. It's going to be a minute-long animation (cartoon) starring Angry Banana and his sidekick, Altered Orange. I'm pretty excited about it so far, even though it's going to be a ridiculous amount of work for one minute...

And YES they're going to have arms and legs and stuff like that, these are just their basic shapes (even the eyes are just a layer, not part of either one of them).

School Project

I'm not in love with this project, but it came out a LOT better than I thought it was going to!!

The requirements are: a quote of some kind (this is a song), 11x17 format (tablet) and text ONLY. I like it!

27th letter of the alphabet

Yes, it's a school project. A slightly ridiculous one, I think, and I have NO idea what I'm supposed to learn from it, but there is is between R and S. It's called "pist" and sounds like "psst". The name and sound were provided by my friend Kelly, because she's awesome like that. I think it's the weirdest assignment ever but it's done and I'm turning it in tonight and "finished" is the most important part of school work.

Cartooning for SCHOOL!!

How great is this?? AND it's not even for my drawing class, it's for my Flash class! I love ITT Tech. For reals, EVERYONE should go to school at ITT Tech. 

Rapid Viz

I have NO idea why, but I LOVE this class! We're drawing RIDICULOUS things!! 

These ones are: thinking outside the box, walking in someone else's shoes, a night in Charlie Sheen's life, and don't judge a book by its cover

 These ones are: a porcupine's pillow, Abe Lincoln in the bathtub, a spider doing a handstand, and the other side of the argument:

This is my phone:

The phone isn't funny, obviously, but the rest of them had me laughing the whole time!!

Game Design Program at ITT Tech

Cancelled. Not just at my campus, at ALL ITT Techs across the country.

We found out Wednesday night at our final. You should have HEARD the immature idiots in my class whining and complaining about it. The man who came to talk to us about it had NOTHING to do with the decision. Zero. There was nothing he could do about it, no amount of bitching and complaining could change that. The number of times an idiotic teenager called out "That's not the point!" made me want to punch people. One kid left and came back with his mother. Five people walked out. What do they think that accomplishes? The class is PAID FOR. It was the LAST DAY. If you can't get your money back (you can't) what is the point of leaving class on the last day? Seriously, what point does that prove? It was an amazing amount of immaturity and THEN people whined about how LONG the final took. I wanted to scream "If you idiots hadn't spent an hour bitching we would have gone home a lot sooner!" but I resisted. It wasn't easy. So I'll get my degree in Graphic Design and be done with it. What's the BFD?