There have been a number of people registering as users. While I appreciate people reading the site, the site does suffer from a lot of spam. I’d appreciate it if new users could put more info into their profiles so I know you’re human. I’ll work on making the registration a bit better. Alas, university.

This is the first week of the last year of the Animation course I’m taking and we all get the wonderful pleasure of working on Animation projects that we the students develop ourselves. Basically the first few weeks of these semester we will be pitching our ideas and then narrowing them down to a few worthy of development. Then the development begins where we write and refine the scripts, develop the Animation bibles (model sheets of characters, environment and props), draw up storyboards and developing a plan of tackling sound design.

I’m not getting within 20 feet of the sound design. I can’t design sound save my life. Probably why I quit my music career way back before it could manifest into a horrible monster of doom, one probably seen in Angel: After the Fall.

Which is why we work in teams! Everyone works according to their skill sets and goals for the future. And that is my problem at the moment. I know Modeling and 3D Animation are a couple of my skill sets, but I also have to figure out what I can do that not many other people can do. What makes my skills special above and beyond the norm. Can’t do a cartwheel so that’s out. My mixed NY/Texan/Australian accent at the moment would make for a very strange voice actor.

I’ll think of something. I also have to hide the fact that I already wrote the script for my pitch, which is dialogue-less, if it should get chosen. Apparently I’m not meant to have a script until like week 5, according to their insanely stupid schedule. Apparently we’re not meant to even animate until next semester, which I find absolutely idiotic. Animation is so key to this project, I don’t see how we can afford to ignore it for that long.

Yes, my stress levels will go up exponentially over this year. I’m hoping for good things to come out of this.

Meanwhile, I’m keeping my eye on the development of Dollhouse. I know nothing is going to be leaked, but it’s kind of fun knowing that across the ocean great minds are meeting to develop what I know will be awesome. (Well, it’s guaranteed to be better than Heroes season 2 so that’s a start.) Yes, I’m a fangirl. But so is most of my Animation group… at least the ones that are girls (even some of the questionable ones). The rest of them are fanboys. We all have our weaknesses. Mine just happens to be one with plot.