Punched Ticket

Getting shingles is the most low-cost Ashitaka (from Princess Mononoke) cosplay, 100%. I wish that it didn't catch me during the finals week, but it's been a very... fascinating experience. Farewell to shingles though, and also farewell to the work I've done in this class! First of all, I'd like to share a complete reel of all the practice projects I've completed this term: * TW: violence (from :00 to :05) * And, here's the actual project! I still have no sound, and there is just one more shot at the end, but first I want to make sure that things are good as they are. Sound and an additional shot are both rather complicated and I don't want to rush, but otherwise the animations are fully completed at this point. I might change up some details but my overall vision of the work has carried through to the end.  There will be some necessary transitions and text to be added so it can be applicable to the scholarship I intent to get (Project Yellow Light), but my ...

 One last update! A brief recap of what I've done in the last few days and where I want to go before the project is due (cry).   Biggest update: I've nearly finished my 2nd scene for the project, yay! Here it is: two wheels (no car) are driving through a highway with a landscape scrolling to the left behind. There are bright stars in the night sky, with a crescent slowly descending towards the lower right corner of the scene.  I've also decided not to bother with the audio elements for now. I've been continuing to learn composition though and am working on another song now! Now, there are two more scenes I need to work on: the driving scene itself, and the car crash scene. The car crash scene should take maybe an hour to finish up, but the driving scene has been eating up my energy and time like crazy. Animating a character is hard, especially if you're doing it wrong.  To save time, I'll split the driving scene into two parts: the character driving and beginnin...

  Being unapologetic certainly gets easier with age, but I still was incredibly amased at how Ava Ordman was able to embrace difficult conversations and topics with a degree of confidence and compassion that made me want to stay in the Workshop despite how uncomfortable I felt.  One of Ava's more recent albums: "It's about Time". Cover Text: Music for Trombone by Women Composers; Ava Ordman- Trombone; Derek Kealii Polischuk- Piano. The cover is Ava facing the camera while holding a trombone in playing position, against a dark background.   Ava Ordman is often referred to as a champion in opening the performance avenue for brass instruments (and more specifically, trombone) for women. She is worldwide famous as a performer and educator, and her  professor bio has a ridiculously long list of achievements and features.  Yet, Ava denies that title of a champion, saying that she simply played trombone because it was one of the things she could do. "I could not ...