Funny: Calculating Jesus’ Body Mass
I just took a 6-hour nap. That was not my intention.
Who just finished her Copyright final project? Booyeah, that’d be me. I probably should have stuck with the 10-page “Final Paper” thing, as I ended up with the equivalent of 16 pages of text, but I got to be a lot more casual this way, and with a 10 page paper, I would have struggled to fit in everything I wanted to say.
And now, back to little old lady land! Or maybe a nap, given that I only let myself have two hours of sleep last night.
My Classes:
THAR 350 (Lady in the Dark project) — ownzed!
FILM 295 (Copyright and Culture) — pwnzed!
FNAR 267 (3D Animation) — I am so dead! Rat walk cycle and final “Little Old Lady Land” animation due FRIDAY. Animated and “filmed” and rendered and edited and with sound… Guh.
CSE 377 (Virtual World Design) — I don’t really have to get back to this until I’m done with 3D animation. A bunch of models and a flashy opening sequence due Thursday, May 5th.
CSE 112 (Networked Life) — Also, something I don’t have to think about until I’m done with 3D animation. The exam I’ll need to study quite a bit for, as I have reading to catch up on, but the 10-page paper will be a snap. I’ve already churned out three pages without blinking. Both exam and paper are for Friday, May 6th.
May 7th, Ima goin hoooome!
Okay, unconsciousness beckons with its sweet siren song. Goodnight, everybody!
*laughs* I remember this! Renata’s “which member of frowl.org are you most similar to?” quiz! She took it again two and a half years later, and now she is Kait. Well that’s good, because I am now Renata.
And yes, it had me as an outcome. It shows how much we’ve changed since January of ’03, huh? (Though her description of me is still perfectly apt. Mmm, Photoshop.)
Daniel just came in and asked to use my photocopy machine. I gave him permission, then we started joking about reimbursement. Several tangents later, I had these two lovely bits of blackmail fodder. Sexy negligee courtesy of Ko.
Come on, how long has this boy known us? He should know by now that he can’t dare give us an inch, because we are merciless. Anyway, bravo to Daniel for being awesome. And ladies: he’s available!
Biped walk cycles are so much easier than quadruped. Even if one has a walker. Priscilla is happy for the moment.
Ko just made me take a spontaneous salsa dance break. I proved to be remarkably uncoordinated and awkward, but after one spends hours virtually maneuvering an old lady’s arms into position and attempting to make her arms not look like she has flat noodles emerging from her shoulders, taking two minutes to dance about to Latino music is highly cathartic.
Meanwhile, Ko finds herself unbelievably bored, having finished everything except for an exam on Wednesday. I want to hit her with a large fish.
But hey, look! Hattie is no longer cruciform! The parenting is quite sexy: When I move her, the walker moves with her, and when I move the walker, her hands move with it! Off to work on the walk cycle, because skin weights can bite me, and better to have animation with shoddy skin weights than to not finish animating!
Meanwhile, if anyone has any ideas for a title, I would be a happy Cellie. I’ve been leaning towards “_____ in Little Old Lady Land”, but that would hinge on me coming up with something inventive to go in the first blank.
Wow. It sure would be nice if I actually knew how to use this frickin’ program. I just had a revelation. I realized that oh, I could maneuver Hattie’s skeleton into the necessary positions for the animation the way it was on Friday! So all that skin weights painting is fine, and I can use that version if I want, as it’s a heck of a lot better than what I was working on last night. I was modeling her arms straight out in front of her so that it would be closer to her normal position, holding on to her walker. However, when Maya auto-assigns skin weights when you bind the skeleton, it automatically sets the skin to be affected by the closest joint. Therefore, when I bound Hattie’s remodeled skin to the remodeled skeleton last night, her breasts were attached to her elbows. I spent hours trying to repaint her upper torso so that everything wouldn’t distort horribly out of proportion, and only got it halfway to the place I wanted it to be by the time I decided to go to sleep.
With Friday’s skin weights, I have the dress most of the way to where I want it, her torso responds decently well to movement in her spine, and her arm movement doesn’t distort her boobs. I just have to do some painting on her shoulders and maybe add influence objects on her elbows and armpits so stuff doesn’t collapse.
Ugh, I want this project to be over. Like Bilbo, I feel like butter scraped over too much bread. And I should be working on the Copyright paper, due Monday. Ten pages, and I have two. Back to work.
Mein Schlienen — are you still thinking of coming to see HHGTG with me opening night? (Provided I finish my animation in time?) The woman I talked to at The Bridge doesn’t think they’ll be getting it. She had no idea if they were getting the Serenity trailer or not. I looked around on MovieTickets.com, and no theatres are reporting showtimes for anything past Thursday. Feh. I guess we’ll have to wait until later in the week to try to plan this.
*laughs loudly and obnoxiously* A sneak peek at the new Superman.
Unfortunately, thanks to The Incredibles I will never be able to take capes seriously again.