Had 2 run through the 2nd time to understand what is it about. Something on birds taking over the world. But it’s seriously addicting. I watch it 4 times.

For animation students, these are the world’s most prominent animation festivals and top animation colleges to know:

Festivals:
1. Siggraph Computer Animation Festival
2. London International Animation Festival
3. Animex International Festival of Animation & Computer
4. Ottawa International Animation Festival
5. Melbourne International Animation Festival
6. Annecy International Animation Festival

Colleges & Institution:

1) Supinfocom
2) Filmakademie Baden-Wuertemmberg
3) Gobelins, Lecole de Limage
4) Ringling College of Art and Design
5) Vancouver Film School
6) Ecole National Superieure des Arts Decoratifs
7) Royal College of Art
Bournemouth University, NCCA
9) University of Southern California
10) Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advance Learning
11) CalArts School of Film/Video
12) National Film and Television School
13) Ecole Emile Cohl
14) Savannah College of Art and Design
15) School of Visual Arts
16) University of Wales
17) Ecole Superieure des Metiers Artistiques
18) University of Teesside
19) RMIT University
20) Rhode Island School of Design
(The world’s top 20 animation schools, ranked by the number of student films shortlisted at international festival during the past 5 years.)

yea yea, no skin yet. after I rig it, I’m just gonna do a simple turntable and demoreel. I hate rushing for a deadline. Rather do nicely later on during the holidays.

Staff looks good eh?

Ubisoft came this week to meet recruit seniors for some internship program. UBISOFT!! My sisters mouth would drop to know if I’m able to be part of a Ubisoft team. But back to reality — I would still not deny my heart for 2D animation and storytelling. So..yea…

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……..but UBISOFT?? Gila jealous!!

Anyways, Saturday is a rest day for not only me, but almost everyone in group 2.

Who knew that with just 3 subjects left the projects would eat up every single hour of your entire week? But not exaggerating too much la… I spend some time speed painting and watching tutorials and reading PDF files, or scrooning over the decision of whether I should sacrifice not going to faith station on Mondays so I can follow my dad and sis to go swimming, sometimes thinking of how many times I have to bail out on people because of my time kissing the computer screen and recently, an addiction to desperate housewives just to keep me awake throughout the night finishing my assignments. On Friday during prayer meeting session, we mostly prayed for —rest.

I can’t post anything much that I have done (especially animation) because it’s better to compile it into a video file before airing it. Now thinking about that demoreel. WHY lag the time so long? I would get so fussy about it and keep re-editing something until I like it. Not to mention I can’t wait to start the 2D Project, I can’t wait to call up old friends,  I can’t wait to hear my old friends share their lives, their internship times, their complains, their worries, their excitement….

The truth is, I miss a lot of things that I usually did before. For 2 semesters I had not been able follow my dad go jogging and to meet people of different ages there, so at least I won’t feel so confined under my own interest only but share similiar interest with other people as well. I miss 2 hours of talking session with friends on the phone, without risking invading my sleep time. I miss hanging out with my family on Sundays. I miss having a long foolish playtime with Adeline and Ratzo – some of our childish obsession that never grew old. I miss having guilt free sessions playing computer games. I miss the days that I need not worry about what assignments to complete the first thing in the morning but just to enjoy the orangy rays of the sun melting through my skin with a simple ‘ Thank You Lord for the Day’.

But yea, nostalgia time would be back soon within 2 more intensive weeks. I’m tired but determined to finish this sem properly. Here’s what I’ve done so far for modeling on my character:

haven unwrap the UV and add textures yet. (plus no eyebrows) Then later to put a skeleton to pose her.

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On the other additional updates. I would like to start a new blog by December – An artblog to dump in all WIPs and write all the technical and artistic jargons which not everyone would want to read during a creation process. Another more reason is that there’s too many people reading this blog, which sadly, becomes the case of being less expressive than you formally did.

I was browsing through my dad’s ‘China’ National Geographic magazine yesterday and I read about something cool.

Western and Eastern people express their emotions differently. Even if we have the 6 common expressions in the world – happiness, sadness, anger, fear, shock and disgust, the eastern people uses their eyes rather than their mouth in terms of expressing how they feel. You can see a lot of these in Chinese soap Operas and Bruce Lee shows. Also in manga.

For the same reason, that’s why western emoticons are like , , :p, XD, ;

where else, Asians, mainly Japanese, express their emotions like : ^_^;  ,  ToT , #^.^# , n_n , O_O , ~_^ , u_u , ?_? , >.< , ^o^ , *_*

So how do I feel at the moment?

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T.T T.T T.T T.T T.T

back to work.

I was feeling very moody about the day. My spirit was pretty much dash over a reason. But I was glad that I went out with my family to celebrate my sister’s birthday. It turn out to be one of the most fruitful dinners ever.

I’m thinking of how upset I would be that I might be in working in Singapore years ahead, leaving the comforts of  my noisy family behind. Even now it’s hard to spend time going out together as a family.

Anyways, today my father became the storyteller. He told us about his childhood and the people who had influence his in his life. And boy was it a good story to tell. We were jokingly persuading him to start up a memoirs book, to write down the account of a family history. The story was like an epic of a persons life that made me feel how insignificant my life is compared to the hardships they had faced.

On the account that how many times my father talks about the significance of people around him, fighting their way out of poverty, re-establishing relatives tie in a one out of a million ‘miraculous’ way, boasting about the values learn and kept in Victoria Institution, and the little things people had done for him throughout his life, stikes a chord over what a sad life I have.

Their story feels like an epic story told on film. I’m wondering what happens to our sad case generation life story:

When I was 6, I went to kindergarden.
When I was 10, I watch a lot of TV.
When I 13, I went to SMKSU. Where I studied on the things that did not matter too much and hardly applicable in life. With exceptions to some subjects.
At least the CF was somewhat a significant story to tell.
When I was 18, I hit college.

That’s why I told my dad, our generation are on the extreme side of things. It’s hard to be hardworking for many when many things are already given to us. It’s hard to bring strong meaning out of values and principles when the world takes it’s road to teach us things that are so shallow that doesn’t embed deep value within us. Even many teachers in our lives never that held that much of an influence in our lives, only a few. Those days teachers were idols to students, because of how much they cared about showering education to their students.

What are we fighting for? Who are we serving? Is there a reason why we want to run that extra mile? For all I know Jesus was and is a root reason why I still want to do well, even if I’m so fed up of ‘doing my best’. I would have easily gave up working hard. I would had easily gave up on many areas of my life. I would had easily take the easy road to be self-centered, kiasu, whatever. I would had easily not bothered if you had scold me.

It gonna be a long 3-4 weeks. Busier.

There’s something in my mind that is not anything close to college or assignments. It’s as though something is wrong or deceptive. My brain can’t stop generating thoughts.
Is discernment something that you hear sounds so right but feels so wrong?

There’s something going on.

Keeping your life simple is one of the most difficult things for many to master, especially when my notebook is a total mess, I don’t own a proper organizer, I sleep and get up at irregular hours, and I work from morning till night.

But I remember reading somewhere some of the most simple things you should do to make life more easier and organized, I came up with a few solutions myself:

1. Toss and Unsubscribe those junk mails.

I hate opening  emails. I really hate it. There’s always tons and tons of junk mail in it.  Tons of chain letters which I never mail out, even if the one that has Jesus in it, the guilt feeling of ‘you should care for others’. There are plenty of ways to care for other people. So preferably, don’t annoy people with the ’send this to 10 people’ stuff. There’s also subscription that you get in various sites that you join long long long time ago, that you should unsubscribe them if you don’t read them any more. But it’s hard to find where to delete your account though.

2. Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenting.

Organize your C Drive. Do a full computer scan and throw out those unnecessary you tube downloads if you don’t need them. Toss out whatever if you think it’s not gonna be useful to you in future. Do a scan for errors too. It took me one whole Sunday to clean up all these junk. worth the while.

3. Remove old programs.

I’m so happy that I finally got all my Adobe CS4s installed and removed all CS3s. Dragging icons in your start -> programs helps put keep things well organized to click. I normally group together working softwares, starting with Adobe, Autodesk Maya & 3D max, Pixelogic Z brush, and corel painter.

4. Your pirating has left you plenty of worms

Harhar. Thats where most of your virus comes from. That’s how your C drive lags severely. Toss out things you don’t need. I think I gave up keeping collections. Getting more portable harddisk is not only expensive but accumalate too much files.

5. Clear your desktops, for goodness sake!

No matter how messy I am, I can’t stand having too much junk on my desktop. I only put most of my personal working file on my desktop screen. Even shortcuts that I don’t use I toss it out. Give my com some real grooming session.

I love Fantasia 2000.

Just meet your deadline.

Yours sincerely,
Rachel.