Pixeled Thursday

Finally finished my avatars!! I should make one of Peter haha

Meanwhile...we pixel!

Pixel avatars of the class for one of my briefs. We all went out to watch Summer Wars and I told them to reflect on the day. We played that game where you have to write what you remember and get the next person to draw it and so forth. The pictures for it are on the Meanwhile blog. Since the anime is based on avatars/virtual reality, thought it would be cool to make pixel avatars for the class. (Luckily we have 5 in total haha) Some of their interpretations of the drawing/writing turned out weird so I thought I could try and incorporate it into the avatars. Here is a rough sketch of the avatars being animated.

And so it begins

I have finally decided on my major project for Honours.

I've been thinking long and hard the past couple of days on what I want to get out of my honours program. What do I want to showcase after I graduate? What am I passionate about? I came up with two ideas which I thought would be interesting to pursue.

First idea was to ask somebody to write a short story for me which I can produce into a short animated clip. I've kind of been thinking about this idea for a while and also had a writer lined up. Only problem was he's super busy atm and creating a animated story from scratch in under 7 weeks doesn't seem possible (especially with my limited animation skills haha). But the idea of having the writer be my client seems like a interesting project. I wasn't too keen on writing it cause...I lack imagination...apparently lol.

So scratch that idea. The other idea I has was to create a business. Since most things have been done, I've decided to start up a greeting card company. Yeah it's kind of random haha, but I've always liked making cards for people. I've always thought personalized cards are the best. Something that the reciever will appreciate and keep for ages. It's rare for people to keep cards for a long time, so if i can somehow find a way for people to keep these products then that would be my selling point for this business.

I was writing up my brief for this project and I think I'm gonna cry haha. There's so many things I need to do. Research > Business strategies > Experimenting > Implementation > Documentation along the way...

Yes I've been thinking about it for the past week so this post is pretty wordy and homework sounding lol. Regardless of the obstacles I'll face these next few weeks, I'm sure this will be a fun and interesting project.

In other news I saw Tim Burton's exhibition!! So worth the wait I think I have a new idol :D I think I might go again cause it was that awesome :)

I also heard Disney is coming to ACMI at the end of the year! Awesome year for ACMI!!!!

MIFF

So on Sunday I went to the Melbourne International Film Festival at Acmi with my class to watch Summer Wars. The storyline is kind of hard to explain but what made it so awesome was that the animation was absolutely incredible! Reminded me of Murakami x Spirited Away animation. And the avatar characters were so freaking cute! Check out the trailer here ^^

I'm gonna make sure I go to these international films in the future :)

This film got me thinking about my major project. I still haven't decided what I'm doing yet :S Leaning towards exploring the relationship with animation and graphic design. Sounds kind of theoretical compared to what the others are doing...they all have client jobs!

ARGH ... not many weeks left to decide!

Another Post

*Gasps!

I've been trying to get the hang off Tumblr and Wordpress for my honours website but I still find blogspot the most user friendly...
Although Wordpress sure is impressive when it comes to widget functions.

Any tips on which one is better?

Autumn update

Helloo~!
Today is my last day of mid sem holidays. I didn't realise rmit LITERALLY only had one week of holidays including easter, fail rmit! I guess having holidays on public holidays makes up for it hurhur...

Hrm I haven't really got much to say. Uni is going well, a little TOO well. I'm so used to being stressed and having multiple deadlines but everything seems to be going smoothly. (Monash you have trained me well!) Although it is week 6, I'm starting to get worried about my portfolio, hopefully things move faster! Although we have a few briefs happening atm it feels like I've barely done anything. Can't believe I'm wanting more work lol. Perhaps my unemployment might be contributing to my smooth sailing lifestyle...I'm so not used to this O_O"

On a different note, here is some stuff I've done over the past few weeks. B'day cards galore!

Bekinator's Birthday Card - Full 6 page printout of MX imitation "BX" (clever ey?) Mastermind JD was behind the concept. It was a fun layout exercise although it was a lot more time consuming then I had anticipated -_- My favourite part is the fashion fix (Aaron and JD's fashion tips lolol have a read!) and the badly photoshopped pic with everyone. Design graduates would be proud :)

Alvin DA MAN's Birthday Card - Illustration of my friends. Inside joke but it was really fun drawing everyone! Funny how Nelson and Derek are quite accurate o.o

Haha collab project I did with steph! Bum chin coasters YEAH 8D. I'm a bit lazy to explain but it was for a charity comedy event :)

Poster I've been working on for uni. Look it's my uni peers and Peter!