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

[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!)