one more week til this film is due.

......ho mai gaht. 

i don't really know if it's good or terrible, but i'm on my way to finishing it, somehow. huhu.

confession

So.....

I've come to the realization...

that I'm a secret amateur font elitist (DON'T JUDGE ME)

and my favorite one is Futura (Medium).

LOL.

I don't know what it is! It's like a game, trying to get the right one. Because, oh. There is always the perfect one.

...see what I mean...

animating. animating.

why is it so hard to do...lol.

the last month

baked 3 pairs of sculpey eyelids for bertie today. i thought i had to abandon giving him eyelids, because i used wet sculpey before while shooting and it kept pulling/ripping the acrylic paint, since i had to sculpt a new eyelid shape every frame he was in mid-blink.

our senior critic mike johnson suggested i sculpt eyelids on a layer of saran wrap and carefully bake them. and told me to make sure i protect the paint with matte sprays the next time lol. it worked so great! bertie looks cute, doesn't he ^^ i'm really happy, because seeing a puppet blink on screen just makes a world of a difference.

although some of the best films i've seen, the faces don't move at all. so it's not necessary. but it will help me pull the film together, since there is sleeping/waking up. unfortunately, there will be a continuity problem, since the shots i've done have had no eyelids...

oh well ^^

not all hope is lost, i think. i don't think i mentioned on this blog, but almost 3 weeks ago, i restarted my film, after developing my original idea for 7 months.
so, my graduation film will not be what i had envisioned, and it is now a one-month film, but i just have to do my best to make this little one as best as i can. not exactly sure what went wrong, but i think i tried too hard.
trying not to let my laziness get the best of me.
final cut due on april 16, and complete film due by may 1.

good luck to all you other seniors!

i have been enjoying animating tiny pastel drawings under the camera

been in the studio several hours a day during this spring break. funfun. not really LOL.

it's really hard being brave

quick thingy of bertie in photoshop before heading out for the day.

hi everybody, been a really long time since i last updated. i've blocked myself off of Tumblr starting today, so i won't be updating that either, haha. this film is really draining. mostly it's just trying to muster enough motivation/focus to get you through the day. today i learned a huge lesson about what not to do in green screening, and i sort of panicked, but first i'm going to sleep lol.

i wanted to share these little photos. my painting class assignment is to upload whatever you want to a japanese mobile photo app called "Pick," and it's like Instagram on steroids. the filters/stamp options are really fun, and you can really do a lot.

so here are some i've made. i really enjoy making them, it's quick, and it's a nice distraction from my film. (sh). i find organizing visual elements really fun to do, like putting an outfit together, coordinating a visual space, etc.

all taken on my iPhone, and manipulated in the app, "Pick."