LOOK! OVER IN THAT RECLINER!

Six hours of coding and breaking apart text and ahiofjweaghiuowaesdfji I WIN

It's not inked and colored BUT I WIN.

Frickin' thousands of frames WHYYYYYYYYYYYY DID I THINK DOING THIS GAME WAS SMART. I shoulda did a website. I coulda done that no problem.

Pfffff.

( This is why I'm updating--EVERYONE'S DOING IT )



So yeah this game? I don't know if it should see the light of day outside this class. It's kinda corny and...hmm. Well. It DOES have snails...

Four weeks to finish shit oh God I don't know if I can BUT I'M GONNA TRY. Here's some caps of the ones that're going to kill me.

( Flash project )

( Poster project )

I won't even touch the photo restoration chillin' in my flash drive. 8|


Also, you know how when your parents' friends ask you for something, and you can't say no because they're your parents' friends? Yyyeah. Looks like I'm designing a web template for someone, but they're going to have to go find someone else to code it and fling it on a server, since I don't know anything besides BIG FONT CHANGESSSS


EDIT I just had a revelation
If I can't get a job as a storyboard artist, I could get a job making shit photoshopped images for the Colbert Report/Daily Show. BRILLIANT.

Lots of stuff happened to-day! S-sorta.( Read more... )

Despite my horrible bouts of laziness yesterday and days previous, I did manage to sit down, assemble, slice, and optimize the index page of my final. That just leaves...the other four pages, the mobile phone version, the TV version, and the banner ad!

( Under 80K! )

( The sketches I'm using in the final )



I've also been thinking that I might kinda wanna start one of those dailysketch/sketchdiary things. What do you think?

I woke up from a dream dancing with Bert at Disneyworld. What the hell. I guess that just means those free tickets better still exist when I show up to work tonight. Also my cousin Patrick was working there dressed as the Mask? What? Why is he always in my Disneyworld dreams?!


So, hm. Safari updated with spellcheck, which I can't seem to turn off from any of the settings. I appreciate the desire to promote smarter spelling on the interbutt, but I don't really need it. HOHO nevermind I found the tab. SCREW YOU SPELLCHECK RED DASHES.


The new tablet is here, and despite being unable to load the driver (or...ANY driver I've tried since installation), the settings work just perfectly? I'm going to roll with that, I suppose, until I can find a reason to not be comfortable with it. Even so, Jake said he was gonna drop Wacom's sales rep a line and put in the good word--of which, I have no idea what he intends to happen. Tablet died, bought new one, the end? I don't know what to expect.


Jake also got a huge box of books from a colleague on Thursday and picked it up after he dismissed class and we went to lunch. So he just kinda...gave me the Flash CS3 Bible for free, instead of the $50 the book is worth. This is rather awesome, like on a really awesome scale of awesome. Too many awesomes. I guess it makes up for the fact that he wants three fully-designed web layouts and a phone-sized one for the final.


So these recent additions of weird features to links on LJ? That pop up mini previews of other sites? Was cool for about ten minutes, and now every time I accidentally roll over a link my teeth grind. STOP THAT. Maybe I can fix that. I'll have to look.



Oh yeah, 20th Century Fox finally is gonna go ahead and make that live-action DBZ movie, and Goku and Piccolo are casted, and it's going to be absolutely AWFUL and I cannot WAIT to see how bad it will fail. Seriously. Live-action! Why? Was there ever a need? WHO CARES, I'LL GIVE IT A GO.


And here's the consolation prize, ( because apparently 171+ characters just ISN'T ENOUGH. )

Oh, Thanksgiving break. What a beautiful thing you are. Besides Black Friday, I mean. Nobody go to the Disney Store next Friday.

So uh.

My English teacher pronounces "cliché" as "clique".



):

( the consolation prize, if you can find that last statement consoleable. )

Wow, I totally should've taken Nick on his offer to go to Frankenmuth instead of this class. WHAT WAS I THINKING.


Oh I voted for the first time yesterday. It's just as exciting as it sounds!

I'm a little peeved that Mehall gave me only a week to construct this new storyboard/animatic/floorplan thing. Because all my drawings are really fast and kind of made of fail (but judging by the rest of the class's penchant for using photos..) and it's HIS FAULT kind of because this is not a whole lot of time, all things considered. All things being my battle game screen, my papers, and my third graphic layout.

But whatever.

( I did this animatic in faux-noir )


I need to find mood music. Probably some Dick Tracy. Or that Pink Panther song. It's got that nice 'tss-tss' bit on the drums that sounds all sneaky n' shit. Whatever.

INDESCRIBABLY not eager to write more for this English class. And my government teacher, who wants our opinions on universal healthcare in our own handwriting? What?

Interesting adventures in the Disney Store. Desperate moms trying to get their kids the shiniest dresses come hell or high water, not-so-desperate dads just trying to get any costume that won't be a wallet killer, and lots and lots of babies and little girls trying on outfits. Lots of cute little Snow Whites and Tinkerbells all across the store today. It was charming. Tiring, but charming.

The wind was wild today; it had my car teetering on the highway. Daddy put more transmission fluid in it; every month or so the fluid is all but gone and my car jerks around. It's kinda scary, yanno? But other than that, the car is super reliable, and I only have to spend about 16 bucks a week to keep the tank full. 30, this week, because I went everywhere.

I coughed up $220 today and purchased the Web Standard Creative Suite at the school store (so much less than I thought; I withdrew a hella lot of money to be safe) and got Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver. Only 1G of memory, which is fantastic (Design Standard was 4G), and now I can do my homework...AT HOME! What a concept. I'm really relieved.

It also means I can experiment with Flash in my free time. I'm rather excited to do that.

And since I withdrew so much cash, I'll probably keep some for myself for gas, to get Transformers, and to.......get the cute princess pins at the Disney Store SHUT UP.

Yeah that was all well and boring, so ( have a new character )

I finished my animatic with sound and motion, and every time I watch it, I get red in the face and twitchy. NOBODY ELSE IS HERE but I'm getting embarrassed over it? It's the closest any of my stuff has ever gotten to...motion? Film? And the music isn't my first choice. But I had no other tracks. The timing needs tweaking. But.

I think I'm just really excited to be making some small headway in something like this. Film? Why would I work on film?! It's rather fun...strangely. I don't know how good I'll be at it, really. You can look at it if you want and make fun of me or something I guess. ):

Maybe I'm just worried that Mehall'll think it sucks or something.


Oh yeah if I haven't whored it out everywhere in the universe yet, TAE has a pretty little home on redstar. And though five pages were put up at first, destroying 70% of my buffer, I slammed down page eight and shipped it off today. I think I can do pretty good! I think. I just gotta not expect perfection.

I am very not cool with this whole "final level is like sixteen levels harder than the LAST level so your guys have no chance in hell of success ever okay die now" thing going on, Fire Emblem. I DON'T MIND IF PEOPLE DIE IN THE LAST ROUND, DON'T MAKE IT GAME OVER NOW. YOU DIDN'T MIND EARLIER.

I want to defeat the guy with the bug-eye, and now I have a Gandalf to do it. But stupid female main character is weak and shit and gets killed every time I try. ):

Tomorrow should be the arrival of the new game and this really impedes progress on my copious assignments. But now that I know what the hell a guide layer is in Flash (and how this knowledge would've been so USEFUL when preparing my animation), it shouldn't be too hard to just recompile some shit in Flash 5, instead of waiting until Monday to get into a lab.

Mister Wroble seems to assume that I am a troublemaker in class. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS COULD MEAN, JUST BECAUSE A HANDFUL OF MY COMMENTS MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE LEAD HIS LECTURE OFF TRACK. TWICE. My meager revenge for getting knocked on for using cel-style animation