just some ranting about university

[purapea]

So, at the beginning of this year we all had to chose a specialism that we would do for the next twelve weeks. I picked 2D digital mostly because I want to specialize in this in the industry and I wasn't sure if I wanted to do 3D just quite yet.

The tutor we have gave us all a project straight away - character performance! Which is awesome! - and sent us away to start work on it. All the while, the 3D and Stop motion students aren't exactly doing much. They have workshops, but other than that, no brief, no deadlines, and no idea that apparently we're all supposed to produce one minute of animation at the end of the twelve weeks.

We're almost six weeks in, and one of my fellow 2D-ers told me that apparently we have to have all the animation done by Tuesday where we're getting marked on all the rough stuff (the 2D specialism includes clean up and digital coloring, which we're given another six weeks to do). None of the other two groups are getting a crit or getting marked, and I only just started animating a couple of days ago because I was pretty sure I had till at least next Friday to finish everything up. To make matters worse, I'm going home this weekend. And not coming back till Tuesday afternoon. And apparently, this crit is worth half our overall grade.

I'm just sort of... astounded about how extremely unfair this is. Our tutor told us there would be a crit, but not that it was going to be worth any part of our overall grade and on top of that, none of the other groups are getting marked. Hell, none of the other groups actually have any WORK, and I've basically been living in the studio all this week, trying to get stuff done. And it's not going to get done.

There's no way I can produce 30 seconds of animation tonight. I can give it a go but, it'll most likely be horrible quality, and I'm kind of twitchy about that. I can always take my lightbox home with me and do some work at home, but by the time I get back to uni I wont have time to linetest it. And it's not like I'd actually do work at home since it's my first time since I started uni that I'd be going home AND my Aunt from Bermuda is over and I'll be spending my time with her. All I can do is try and get as much done as I can, and put it all together on a really rough animatic that I did. So it would be really incomplete, and some scenes would just be keyed, but it would give an idea of what I want it to look like if I was given another week.

I'm hoping that a lot of the other guys are in a similar boat as me, because seriously. I'm going to be so unfairly fucked otherwise.

FML

Comments

[vociferocity.livejournal.com]

D: good luck! that is so hardcore unfair that your group is the only one being marked on it, and wtf half your overall grade, your tutor should seriously have made that clear.

SO YES, GOOD LUCK AND I HOPE ALL YOUR OTHER CLASSMATES ARE FUCKED LIKE YOU ARE, BECAUSE THEN MAYBE THE TUTOR DUDE WILL BE LIKE "LOL LOOKS LIKE I FUCKED UP, MAYBE WE'LL PRETEND THIS DIDN'T COUNT FOR ANYTHING"

[purapea.livejournal.com]

I know right!? He totally didn't make that clear at all, and I'm pretty sure that half our group don't know about it still.

@_____@ THANKS. THAT'S WHAT I'M HOPING FOR.

[vociferocity.livejournal.com]

ugh I hate when that happens, it's like DUDE. DUDE, YOU ARE IN CHARGE HERE. YOU NEED TO TELL US WHAT'S GOING ON, OKAY. WE CAN'T READ YOUR MIND.

WELL I WILL KEEP MY FINGERS CROSSED OR SOMETHING IDK ♥ ♥

[purapea.livejournal.com]

@_@ thanks dude

[silverbrumby123.livejournal.com]

*sob*

we are going to die ;A;


WHHHYYYYYYYYYYY????!!!!!!!!!

*dies*

[purapea.livejournal.com]

Dude we already died and sold our souls to the doggy devil in first year ;;

[silverbrumby123.livejournal.com]

....

This is true.....

But WHYYYYYYYY???!!!!!!

[purapea.livejournal.com]

Because we're animators ;;

[silverbrumby123.livejournal.com]

;A;

[purapea.livejournal.com]

Sobs forever

[silverbrumby123.livejournal.com]

*dead*

[purapea.livejournal.com]

/wrists

[silverbrumby123.livejournal.com]

*despair*

[purapea.livejournal.com]

sjndjngfgf /sobs forever

[batfowl.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that is so unfair. I wish you the best of luck and I really hope things will work out. D: /hugs forever

[purapea.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm probably going to email my lecturer and ask for a slight extension depending on how much work I do tonight. We'll see

[batfowl.livejournal.com]

Anytime, love. ♥ I know what it's like, our class gets treated unfairly all the time (like getting a big test for a subject we don't even have any books for ahaha @__@;) so I know how you feel.

But yeah, you definitely should mail your lecturer.

[purapea.livejournal.com]

..SMOOTH.

yeah @_@ I probably will by the looks of things. I've done like barely any work sob.

[batfowl.livejournal.com]

INORITE and it was right after the teacher said we wouldn't get a test on it too. It was no surprise everyone failed it lmao.

HANG IN THERE.

[ormery.livejournal.com]

fff GOOD LUCK DUDE D:

[purapea.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I kind of need it

[lynxgriffin.livejournal.com]

Okay, WTF, dude? That is really unfair and nonsensical. Just because stuff is in 3D doesn't mean you can just sit around waiting to do it until the last minute. If they're making their own models/characters for their animation, then they dang well better have their rigs and lights set up by now. If they're using other models and just doing the animation, then they'd at least need to have their animatics up! 2D and 3D animation BOTH need animatics! It makes no sense to just make the 2D people be graded on progress thusfar and whaaaaat ffffff

[purapea.livejournal.com]

The thing is they haven't been set a brief or anything. They are basically just fucking around on maya which is a bit understandable becaue we've never used it before but I still think the fact that we have so much work compared to eveyone else doubled with the fact that they are all complaining about the free time they have is getting a bit stupid. way to be a fail uni. What's going to happen most likely is that they will get a brief and only have a heck short time to animate it in

[lynxgriffin.livejournal.com]

Really, the deal is that you actually realize how much work does go into it so you're actually getting it done properly. :/ And if they're going to have a hecka short time to animate it, then frankly, it's gonna turn out crappy. I mean, just this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB_PoA-NLlY took me eight weeks to do, so it'd be even more work for an animator trying to use props or a setting and making it look good. 8P

Either way... *huuuuuugs*

[purapea.livejournal.com]

I don't know what they're brief is, obv because they haven't got it yet, but ours is like, a minute of animation and our tutor said something about how everyone had to do that. If everyone has to do that, why is he singling us out with a halfway-crit thats half f our grade? Nobody else has a crit because nobody else has done any substantial character work. I'm pretty sure the 3D animators will get away with just bouncing ball excersises on the computer which is frustrating because I did that in my first year. And I'm doing far more difficult animation sequences in this animation. It's so fucking unfair ;__;

(also that animation is delicious.)

/cling

[lynxgriffin.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah, a minute of animation is really actually a lot of it. o_o And fffff screw bouncing ball exercises. *sends you more luck and such!*

(Thank yous!)