HI PEEPS!

Sorry long time no speak, to be fair I've become rather inactive on DA as I've been so busy this year. And I'm afraid I'm not about to get any less busy, either. My 3rd film was nominated for a Glammy! Woop! I'm up for 'Best 2D Film', which is pretty awesome. I can't wait until the Glammies on the 5th June. *spazzes about*

Also... come the end of June I will be jetting off to Boston and then onto Chicago, which is EPIC AWESOMENESS as I'll be staying with my cousin and his girlfriend first and then ~madmen after. SO COOL! There are no words to describe how excited I am. What an amazing way to finish off my university degree! And after THAT, I'll be going off to France with my parents and two of my housemates to stay in a nice big country house for two weeks. Sweeeeet.

and then... time for a job I guess. EEEEEP.

I ran the race for life today: 5k, 23degree sunshine, over 7,000 people. It was a very humbling experience and made me realise how lucky I am to be in good health. And although the actual run was horrible in such sun-filled conditions, it felt awesome to cross the finish line knowing I didn't walk a step.

So I guess that's it, sorry for my inactiveness here- I've even let my subscription run out as it seemed pointless to pay when I was hardly going on DA! I'm sure I'll post my film up on here after the Glammies, so there's something to look forward to!

Hope all you peeps are grand, because you are all lovely people.

Animation-ing

Finished keying, now inbetweening: the mind-numbing boredom begins.

I've had such a lazy sunday I can't even be bothered to finish this journal properly... I'll come back to it later... maybe.



Race For Life

I'm running a 5k Race For Life at the end of May. It's ages away. 5k isn't really that far. But still. Whoo!

'Sup homies.

So... haven't updated the ol' journal in quite a while.

Um... Current news... let's see... How about that Obama huh? Got into that ol' Whitehouse. I found out he used to go by the alias 'Barry'... which is so not cool. No offence to any Barrys out there, but I mean, it's not that cool a name is it? Not as cool as... 'James' or 'Clint' or... 'Horatio'. Anyway, okay I'm getting sidetracked.

Actually, I'm afraid dear readers, that there is unashamedly, unabashedly, irrefutably, no point whatsoever in this journal, aside from the teeny tiny side note that it is distracting me from writing my dissertation. My dissertation is on Stereotypes in Animated Feature Character Design- how design aspects portray Gender, Genre and Race. I don't know why I chose something so laden with various academic theories. I mean, writing about Genre theory: what was I thinking?!? I have read so many books where feminists bitch about how women are portrayed by the film industry in an overtly sexual way and viewed with a male bias by their audiences...sheesh! I want to scream from the rooftops:

"WOMEN ARE INFERIOR TO MEN IN THIS SOCIETY, OKAY, BUT WE DO LOOK PRETTIER THAN THEM!"

Srs. I'm so glad I'm a lady. I get to wear dresses and makeup! *swish*

...I think I've just derailed my whole argument of my study in one fell swoop. Feminists everywhere are getting angry and shaking their mustaches at me

/gross stereotype

...See what I did there?!?

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animaishun news

So, University is plodding on, and simultaneously crashing by, as if someone is shaking up a time travelling etch-a-sketch. My film is on schedule... just, and I should have all my key frames done in 2/3 weeks. I've completed just over a third of my backgrounds too, though as yet I have no idea how or even if they will integrate with my digitally coloured characters... but live life dangerously, that's what I say! Sound effects have been recorded, though I still don't know if they are of a high enough quality, and I still have no idea who's going to compose my score. So, a lot of plates need spinning, or whatever the saying is.

I can't wait until I've animated my last frame! After this film I never want to animate anything again. Animation is a wonderful, beautiful medium... if you have the supreme patience and skill to pull it off. Which I totally don't, nowhere near enough for a professional level. Aside from how crap our Uni has become over the past year, I don't regret taking it at all, because I've had such a blast, and now I know for sure that animation is Something That I Don't Want To Do With My Life. And if that's not money well spent, I don't know what is!

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Things to do this/next month:

See The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, T:4 and Bolt at the cinemarrr
See if I get into the next issue of Designer Violence
Celebrate Chinese New Year
Finish keying my film
Find someone to do the sound for it....
Attend a party sponsored by POWERTHIRST
Eat more Spider Maki
Go home and plan trip to the US with the folks (excited sooo much about this one)
Not get distracted by DA and Facebook when I should be working (Supreme Failure Imminent)
Finish Crime And Punishment


...I wish I could put as much effort into my dissertation as I have done this journal. I would have finished ages ago!

Anybody else out there feeling the procrastination love?

Kater outer x

Well well well it's the festive season, indeed! I have been feeling extremely Christmas-y of late, and even more so now I'm back home in a warm house armed with a mug of Rooibos tea and a contented kitty purring away on my bed...

I have to say sorry to my watchers/people I watch on DA, because even though I've been lurking on here almost every day, my activity has slowed to, well, a stop really. Uni and Life are partly to blame for this, as well as... laziness. But I still do browse through deviations and read through journals, I'm just rubbish at commenting :B Sorryyy =[

So yeah, first off, OMG how fast is this year going? Srs, it's been mental. The fastest year of my life! We enroll at the Atrium one day and the next it'll all be over, and I'll stop bitching about the new Uni and start Life as a Post Grad. OMG.

Funny how in the first year I was all set to try and get a job in Animation, and now I really would like to never have to animate anything ever again. Animation is a beautiful medium, both creative and logical, hard to do well and tedious beyond beilef. Who would have thought drawing the same thing over and over would get boring? : /

Animation woes aside, that doesn't mean I have lost my love of drawing/painting (which is still as alive as ever)and any creative jobs in that field I would totally lunge for. Storyboarding, design, concept, writing... I'd love to be in a job which requires doodling down ideas and working on a project.

...But maybe not yet.

After Uni I plan to go back home and work a McJob as I save/apply for a place on the JET program, so I can bugger off to Japan and be an assistant English Language teacher for a year. My understanding of English grammar may be foggy at the best of times, but hey, I'm fluent in it, and I totally have a BBC accent So yeah, that's where my life could be leading come February 2010. A long time to wait...

Even after all that blabbing, I'n going to try and really enjoy what's left of my Uni time, hanging out, being studenty, partying at inappropriate times and whatnot, whilst still hopefully getting a good grade.

I miss my Duck Housers already! *wibble* Back for New Years though, where I plan to PARTY LIKE IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD. srs.

Hope y'all are doing good. I love it when plans change and (hopefully) work out for the better

It's my birthday wheeeeeeeeeeeeee

Thanks for the well-wishes people have sent already on the DA and the Facebook

I'm 21 today and feelin' good!



Kater xxx

Also I PROMISE that the next journal will be an actual, proper journal, with news and everything! D: