This just in ~

Ka. Wa. IIIII. Ne? XD

So… this is a like a giant/mass report on the last month pretty much. Everything thats happened and everything thats going to happen in the next few weeks. I think…

So, I’ll start off with the fact I’m back at uni :woop: Living in student digs free from the reign of the parentals! Exact same room as last year, one of the same roommates, but one went awol just after christmas, so we have a new one. Still assessing… might be a bit too chavvy/noisy for our liking
Course wise, you may not know I switched. From Animation Design to Graphic Design & Illustration. Just lots and lots and LOTS of drawing. Which is goooooooood. Takes up a fair amount of time, but thats cool. I’m managing to balance the education with the recreation. Skip below the cut to see what I’ve been up to ;).

Before & After + 300th Post!

When I moved into my first year university accomodation, it looked like this;

Boring, plain... a clean slate you might say.

Sad, empty shelves...

And by the time I left, it looked like this;

Muuuuch better.

Before I got my Feena cover.

It’s Daki-chan!! lol

My shelves after they'd been filled with new girlies.

My lovely figure box tower, and my Haruhi wallscroll.

The weird angle shot of my desk lol

Now, this is only my uni room, which I’m never going back to, ask I’m moving into new accomodation next year, living with my friends, hopefully for the next 2 years.

My actual room, at home, is smaller, more compact, but cosier. Need new, less flowery curtains though. Something pink maybe. Or Space Invaders!! They had em aswell… in the Next catalogue when I got the duvet set lol.

Now I’m home I at least have a comfier chair, and its a wheely chair! My favourite kind of chair! You can see my To Heart 2 cosplay top, minus the bow, hanging on my wardrobe(this kind is called a Tallboy for some reason, don’t ask me why lol.

Weird lighting... horrible energy saving bulb in my room, so dull and yellowy...

The shelves brimming with manga, I have more in the barn.. it sucks I have such a small room... too much stuff lol.

What you can’t see behind me is another set of shelves. Filled with TY beanies, books, DS games and comics. And a few dolls on the top lol. I own far too much stuff.

Other stuff you can’t see is my corner of David. Theres also a door of David now too, but the corner of David Tennant is far more impressive lol.

And yes, this is my 300th post. Not making a big deal of this one lol.

What are you still watching?

We’re, what… 4 weeks or so into the spring anime season, ne? So how many series are you keeping up with?

Click for high res

How far does multimedia go back?

(This is for uni work folks, bear with me! :grin:)

I have to admit, I scoffed at the idea of multimedia back in the caveman days.(Cavepaintings + singing and dancing round in front of them getting stoned/high etc) But if you actually think about it, multimedia doesn’t just mean what we’re used to it meaning now. It’s multimedia, lots of different media’s, like with art materials, you have a multimedia piece of work. Unlike the more modern term of phrasing to do with technology and todays media. To be honest, when I think of Multimedia, I think of franchises spanning different platforms, games, books, tv etc.

I’ll be blunt, I won’t lie. The older stuff hardly interests me at all. It’s just how I’m wired I’m afraid. If its the history of things I like, I’ll be there in a flash, trust me, cave paintings, not so much. Computery stuff, more likely. (May I just say, WOOO 1989 Internet the year I was born! lol) No matter how much the cave paintings from 15000bc resemble graffiti(Kudos to Katie for getting that lol), thats no more likely to get me intrigued. The later development of media, through technology and such like however, I will go for, since I’ve already learned some stuff from Media Studies in Alevel(YUS, It’s coming in handy!) and being born in the techie generation, being born the year of the internets creation has gotta have some kinda reprucussions… although the Berlin Wall came down that year too…. so who knows whats going on with ’89.

I do love what multimedia has become though. And I thank all those who played their part. Even the cavemen. (Theres a question… how to Christians fight against the evolution theory if cavemen are part of technology developing into what it is today? Just an afterthought… lol)

(And for my regulars, the pinacle of tomorrows technological feats! Maid robots! (High res here)

And guess what? I gots her too. £20 at Memorabilia. :woot:

Busou Shinki Studio

Got round to playing with the BS Studio a couple of days ago. Didn’t do too much, as it was late, just took a while to download the updates is all…

I’ve been buried in Uni work atm, lots to do. Like 7 hours of drawings from still life. And a flip book. And an essay we can’t actually write yet because we don’t know nearly enough about this ‘Limey’ movie.

This is just a tester I made very quickly in Photoshop. First time I’ve used photoshop in years literally… Haven’t used it since I was like 13-14ish at school. And that was only a trial version. I’ve used programs like photoshop for years though. So I’m competant with it so far.

My first time – with Maya 2008! (LOL)

Now I’m finally on my animation course and finally have my hands on Maya, I’ve been able to play about with it. So far I’m still learning and some of it’s really confusing… so many buttons and tabs and god knows what…. Today we learnt how to bend/curve things, and make funky shaped pillars.

This was my first try, very-very basic...

This was the slightly different temple, better lighting, but the shadows have gone weird... I got it right earlier on... but then it went like that....

The is the slightly more fun temple, still with the strange planet, but now with funky pillars and a weird shaped roof! And a mountain backdrop which I made by pulling about a bit of Nurb plane.

First time I added the shading on this, it looked fine, then I did something, and it went like this... I have no explanation... as I said, newbie to Maya...

Anyone familiar with the Maya programs? Any helpful tips for beginners like moi?

Any I warn you now… I will be posting more, apparantly my course leader-y types like blogging lol. So I thought, eh why not put some here too. Next week we get to make rockets!!! :woot: