One last time.

There's a difference between the what you want to say, and how you say it. Blogging for both my marks and your pleasure, I must admit that it is the how, not the what, that makes all the difference. At the same time, our video attempted to personify this statement, by not concentrating on content but on the way we wanted to show it to you. People want to enjoy knowledge more than they would like to actually have it.

You lot have watched my life through the disdainful and sarcastic melodies I have spun out of glyphs and symbols through this blog, which I hope was an entertaining view into a person most of you have come to believe possesses only three emotions: anger, moodiness or complete disregard for you and yours. In the same vein, I have learnt a lot about the people each of you are, from the people I hate to the people I love.

One of my friends has always had this inherent belief that everyone has some sort of redeeming quality, and has on occasion urged me to look for this quality in others. Like the pessimist that I am I was always convinced that she must somehow be at least gravely mistaken, if not completely mentally retarded, but these past two months may have actually convinced me otherwise. You see, while I've always thought that everyone around me must have been some kind of idiot, the truth of the matter is that you lot are actually pretty handy to have around, if not for actual technical work, than at least sheer comic relief.

(Editor's note: Take the above as Bryan's way of telling you he likes your company. And now for the part where you can quote him for next year's sucker- I mean, Freshies.)

Anyway, it goes without saying that it was enjoyable and enlightening experience, in which I learnt lots of different things, grew closer to all my brethren in the course and generally feel very happy to be where I am. I feel that this project is something everyone should at least have the chance to go through once in their lives and I really enjoyed myself.

So goodday to each and every one of you buggers.

It's been an interesting ride.

Now give me my darn marks.

Peace out,
Bryan

i'm just a sexy boy

(P.S. I might actually start writing blogs just for fun now.)

End of MOI P1

Well it's really been a long way, i can't say i'm completely overjoyed by our end result but i think we've gave it a pretty good shot. Win Lose or Draw, this is probably the biggest project i've been though so far, and i'm pretty sure the same goes for my other group mates too.

Screening will be later in the noon, and everything you see here as well as our video will be chunked into a CD for submission.

Looking at the groups around, i somehow feel shadow for most of them have loads of special effects, stopmotion and even greenscreen. But i somehow feel glad we choose to take a different path, that of going outdoors and braving the elements to get real footage.

Alphie also made me feel a whole lot better after telling me the marking criteria, which i think most groups oversaw due to the craze on special effects.

But as a whole, this has been quite an experience for me
Not as in Moi P1, but the entire first year, because if you realized, this IS after all, our last day of school.
When the next day of school arrives, we'l be seeing each other as year 2s.

So well,
Cheers to all the Freshies
Cheers to all the Lecturers
and Thanks for everything this year.

8D

Brian Low

3 and a half hours later

Well hellooo again, with only 30 minutes left before the deadline, things are starting to get really chaotic for some people. Corrupted files, rendering errors, you name it.

I on the other hand have my own share of madness, i am currently waiting in the Mac lab on the 6 floor for Bryan to pop by so we can start on our VIdeo fund editing, which we have almost no idea how because we never touched Final Cut Pro and nothing had been taught to us on it.

Wonderful isn't it. Shooting with a camera you hardly know how to use in one day, and editing with a program you never used also in a day. The whole of Julian's class is probably in a mad rush about completing P1 and Vid Fund.

Lots of things are happening and more stuff is going to happen later today, so well, time for me to look for Bryan, SHEESH

Brian L

4 hours to go.

Ah well yeah, with just a little more then 4 hours left on the clock before the submission deadline, i am honestly pretty surprise to still see some groups editing their videos here in the lab.

Anyway, with reguards to what Bryan and a few chaps said yesterday about our cover looking rather "pirated" i spend the entire night re-designing it. Lets just say it looks alot more "original" now. But it send me spending a big long time at the print shop as the fat bloke in front of me was awefully slow printing a few hundred copies of A3 size coloured stuff.

So well, it looks like everything's ready for today's submission, all that is left is for me to get tomorrows envolope ready with the contents, 12 hours of undisturbed sleep and an extra huge quadrippled patty cheese burger perhaps from Botak Jones or Carls JR.

BANZAI!
See you chaps tomorrow at the big screening.

Brian L

Fully baked.

So. Damn. Warm.

Humid. Stuffy. It's 11:40PM. There should be a law against having to breathe the thick, almost solid air in the animation room. Room's filled with people either doing their work or doing their best trying not to die of a heatstroke while waiting for their videos to render. Glad my group's more or less done.

Our goddamned cover makes our CD and its casing look pirated.

People are mostly packing up now. Submission is in about 15 hours. 8 of those hours will be spent in transit and sleep. I should be worried about the poor quality of our video and audio, the jumpy aspect ratio and our message overall, but there's nothing much that I can do to solve it now.

For the moment, I am hungry. I've been craving four meals a day lately, for some reason. Stuck to only eating three, or two, depending on how late I wake up.

Expect a final post tomorrow, the day before the screening.

Peace out,
Bryan

with a tear in his eye he said "son that's the question"

what this title is

so shall its post be.

ok don't try to make sense of the above nonsense.

urgh, i just have no idea for the title.

so neways, it's been awhile `,^) (attempt to make 'The Rock''s expression)

sorry for not updating.. this goes to not just other teams but lecturers and my group as well.

had been busy with the critter animation and exercises from VidFun.

unlike bryan, evidently, in my posts i don't really care the way i butcher my puncuation nor seem to realise that the lack of capital letters in the times appropriate anything a mistake dire.

let alone correcting my grammar.

haha. ok, but i do still strive to be understood.

anyway, with REGARDS to P1, uhh, i had been assigned the task to draw a 'critter' which was supposed to be animated using Flash for a bunch of seconds. and outta the 5 cute creatures the two

[brahy-uh n]s had to like the same character (#3), which was the hardest to animate:

after improvising and figuring out its 3d form, sketch of the moving sequence. which is basically waving and doing stupid actions:

yea. there you go. i have no idea what this creature is. a bunny with hair as ears that stands on its small hind legs which are miraculously capable of supporting its body weight.

the following are which i got my inspiration/ idea from:

-the pokemon Pikachu
-Stewie Griffin from Family Guy

-my memory of the rabbit in the animation Amanda showed us of a senior's work

-humain hair(which i've always been observing)

-my own personal soft toy:

the hardest part is yet to come.

whilst in Flash, a program i'm still not too familar with, i realised i don't know how to make symbols so i did everything frame by frame. in the process, many a-times i'm confused with my own animation and blurred with numbers because of the many frames.

but finally i got it done by thursday morning. though i think i really did a poopy job. :(

urh, i will end this post now.

but before i go, i didnt think that brian enslaved me like as said in his post.

haha, in fact i thought the real workers have been the both [brahy-uh n]s.

posting for 21st march, saturday

LASZLONEWELL, this might be farewell.

Spy? Sapping MY project?

Team Fortress 2 title reference today, in case you happen to be a girl or DOTA player.

We're about 90% completed, the remaining 10 integers comprised mostly of slapping pretty sparkly stickers onto our work and generally wondering exactly how badly we did. It's not that I dislike my work; I feel that our work reflects exactly how much effort we put into it. What I am concerned about is the wisdom of letting anyone else see it until the deadline.

There's been a bit of buzzing about copied ideas lately, which I think everyone should have seen coming, especially after the whole course tried jumping on the storyline/greenscreen/stopmotion bandwagon together. It's a fact that our seniors specifically refrained from such technology, with the exception of one or two videos, and even those videos either failed or kept such techniques to a minimum. Whether they did so out of laziness or wisdom is relevant, the fact remains that they mostly kept to a straightfoward video doing exactly what the brief asked them to.

Anyway, my point is, you're all pretty much bumming ideas of each other, fools. Even my group bums ideas off the best of last year's work. I suppose that since we're all designers, I should call it inspiration, although the term has to be stetched a bit.

Perhaps you lecturers, the ones marking my post and eagerly dropping marks for having the sheer audacity (by the way, please, please, PLEASE put that program into the labs again) to address you directly without first kissing your lovely bottoms should think of making us all patent and completely copyright every single bit of work we intend to do. It might even help us in the industry, if you think about it. Our seniors are constantly getting their lawsuits handed to them by the lovely people at thepiratebay.org.

But it is ironic when people using a cracked application on a laptop accuses the person next to them of stealing intellectual property. We bitch (pardon my slang) about stealing, then start listening to music that most certainly hasn't been cleared to go on Youtube. I'm sure you lecturers could afford to appreciate the situation.

Peace out,
Bryan

you always find the words to say to keep me right here waiting