....and of to school we go.

O.K so I started my course yesterday, had to make the big hike down from the Y all the way to the next block : ) I arrived at 8:45 to find that most of the class was already there which was a good sign. There are about 20 people in the class and I am one of three girls which actually isn't to bad. To kick things of we did a meet and great and got to know who every one and where they where from and some back ground information. I must say I felt heaps better when everone said they had no experience although I think some of them lied slightly cause they where a bit good after one day. Anyway the class is very diverse with people from Mexico, Belgium the UK and other places plus anouther guy from down under but he's from Sydney and had no idea where Bendigo was. After a couple of hours of theory on vertex's, primatives, NURBS and so on we jumped into a mini assignment. I was with Jelle who is from Belgium and from best I can tell his name is pronounced some where is between yellow and jello. So anyway for our assignment we had to make some leggo blocks and text and then texture and light the scene and animate the camera and then render the movie. We got most of it done yesterday without to much trouble although there was some things wrong and our render fudged it. Unfortunatly we both speak bad english and I was having difficulties explaining my theory on the problem and ol'yellas solution was "ya, that will do". So I decided to come in a few minutes early this morning and fix the problem and finish the project. I'm not sure why he was having so much trouble because he said he knew how to use the software.

Today was also good we had a character and background designer give us a lecture this morning (she used to work for Disney) and after 2 hours of her work history we finally got to do a character drawing, we only had an hour left so we only did a 3/4 view. I managed to get my finshed in the hour and we handed them in to get assested which should be interesting. It was good actually when she was walking around she looked at mine and said that it was obviouse from my wonderful drawn feet that I had taken many life drawing classes, which of course I havn't ever been to one which was pretty funny, so I told her cause I couldn't help myself, oh yeah and that reminds me we get to do a couple of life drawing lessons yay!! Also we have our first animation lesson next monday which should be interesting. Oh and finally this afternoon we did anouther theory session on polygon, NERB and subdivisional modeling (have I freaked you at yet?)
Anyway that it for now and do my washing so I don't smell extra bad tommorow!!