21 and concerns for next year

So not too much has been happening. Ive been a little less motivated than usual the past few weeks. But thats fine. Ive also been playing Psychonauts a bit, and thats quite distracting...

Anyway I have a few pictures I want to draw for friends and family for xmas, so I suppose I should start on them.

I had my birthday on the 6th, I am now 21, which is nice though theres been no great revelations or wisdom thats come with it. I did however get 'Drawn to Life volume 1 and 2' and another Terryl Whitlash book that I love. As well as some pretty nice watches and bag.

Im happy too. Which is always good.

Im a little concerned for next year. I always have been really.. though I am excited, Im still worried that I might just not be able to animate anything decent. Ever... but I shall try, and I want to learn all I can. I just dont feel as creative as others. but maybe that only means that I wont be an animator or storyteller.. I quite enjoyed what little 3d modelling we did, and I do enjoy doing character design.. so maybe they will be the areas I go into? Or maybe something completely different.

Its hard because Im interested in such different things, its hard to fit any together... for instance I love history and behaviour. As well as animals and research and drawing, books, learning, photography... siiigh.

I really like learning about behaviour, in particular canine behaviour. I wont go into it, mainly because I dont really know too much and dont want to sound like an idiot, but I love their social behaviour. The way they sort out their problems together and their social hierarchy.. its amazing.. I love em..

Anyway one good thing about next year is we also get to choose an elective class. Which Im excited about. I wanted to do the photography course, but Im worried itd be too... crap. I want to learn how to take better pictures, I want to learn about the proper camera settings to use etc. I dont want to learn about stuff I already know..

Then I was thinking I might do a language course. Id love to learn french, japanese or german. I learnt german in high school, but I dont really remember much.. then I though what good will another language do me... siiigh.

Ill keep thinking about it.

Heres a fjord horse I drew. Theyre cute. And I had fun with this style.

Heres a cute and funny little animation

Been a lil distracted with my freedom

So my first year of uni has finished! Im very happy. And I admit Ive been a lil distracted and havent posted on this for awhile. Sorry about that. But Ive already drawn a few things, and Ive also bought my paints here, so maybe Ill play around with them at some point just for the 'lolz'. Paints hate me a little...

Anyway!

I managed to finish everything off quite well. Im happy with what Ive done. Even my imaging storyboard assignment wasnt too bad. Im quite very happy with my design work. Here is my brochure design -

Again, photos are my own. Im happy with this and I enjoyed making it.

Cant wait until second year though. For one thing, theres no imaging class, and we also start learning some more interesting animation techniques. The classes are 2D animation, 3D animation, Interactive and Video. Im looking forward to it.. I still dont think I have the patience for 2D, but we'll see. Itll be fun learning about it anyway.

Heres a very cool lil animation, Im not sure who made it, but I keep getting the song stuck in my head and I just love the 'story' :P