Welp...school is about to start...in two days to be prcise, and i feel cheated. It seems like my school hasn't done one thing right since i've gone full time - the screwed up my financial aid account to where i was blocked for a week and that really fucked up my flow. Then they said they fixed it but didn't, which meant i had to wait longer than i wanted to to register for spring....which in turn meant i didn't get all my supplies in time...just - shit snowballs (if that makes sense to you).
But there is one upside:
One of my books for the class i'm NOT taking turned out to be more insightful than most college textbooks (or books required for college classes). I actually learned quite a few things just from the introduction that i felt i should have been taught from my CAPS (Computer Animation Production...don't ask me where the S comes into play....idk) class.
The whole book teaches you the fundementals of Maya while using examples and actual models from the movie Open Season Well...I haven't acutally popped in the DVD that comes with it, so i don't know if they give you the acutal models....but they give you textures and show you step-by-step how to create them.
So by the end of the book you'll have a basic understanding of almost everything there is to do in Maya (skeletal creation, texture mapping, animation, particles....GOD i love particles, and even compositing of effects created outside of Maya.
It's too bad the CAPS class i took didn't focus on something like this...a lot of students could really have benefited from this book.
Violin lessons are coming along alright....i think. My posture and wrist placement are horrible - but i get the job done. I need to work on sight reading...and memorizing finger placement (i always get worried my fingers are going to fall on the wrong note, so i look at them and in turn lose my place on the sheet music.) I'm really good and quick at learning songs to the point of memorization...but even when i'm playing it from memory, just looking at the book sometimes makes me mess up.
right now, as i hope you would have guessed, i'm learning some HP music. There's onlyone two songs i want to learn and one is 'Hedwig's Theme' (the general HP theme that plays at the start of every movie) and the 'Double Trouble' song (...something wicked this way comes - you know the song).
Actually...now that i think about it, there was a pop song kind of like that from the first or second Power Ranger's Movie (god - don't ask me how i remember that or what it has to do with power rangers of HP - probably because it has the lyrics trouble, double, and bubble). Google says.............it was Trouble by Shampoo
When i get good enough at each song, i'll take my camera and record me and my teacher playing it and put it on here (possibly two or three more weeks)
But there is one upside:
One of my books for the class i'm NOT taking turned out to be more insightful than most college textbooks (or books required for college classes). I actually learned quite a few things just from the introduction that i felt i should have been taught from my CAPS (Computer Animation Production...don't ask me where the S comes into play....idk) class.The whole book teaches you the fundementals of Maya while using examples and actual models from the movie Open Season Well...I haven't acutally popped in the DVD that comes with it, so i don't know if they give you the acutal models....but they give you textures and show you step-by-step how to create them.
So by the end of the book you'll have a basic understanding of almost everything there is to do in Maya (skeletal creation, texture mapping, animation, particles....GOD i love particles, and even compositing of effects created outside of Maya.
It's too bad the CAPS class i took didn't focus on something like this...a lot of students could really have benefited from this book.
Violin lessons are coming along alright....i think. My posture and wrist placement are horrible - but i get the job done. I need to work on sight reading...and memorizing finger placement (i always get worried my fingers are going to fall on the wrong note, so i look at them and in turn lose my place on the sheet music.) I'm really good and quick at learning songs to the point of memorization...but even when i'm playing it from memory, just looking at the book sometimes makes me mess up.right now, as i hope you would have guessed, i'm learning some HP music. There's only
Actually...now that i think about it, there was a pop song kind of like that from the first or second Power Ranger's Movie (god - don't ask me how i remember that or what it has to do with power rangers of HP - probably because it has the lyrics trouble, double, and bubble). Google says.............it was Trouble by Shampoo
When i get good enough at each song, i'll take my camera and record me and my teacher playing it and put it on here (possibly two or three more weeks)
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