DigitalDuckling

After a nerve wrecking day after my birthday, I got incredible news! I’ accepted! To where you might ask? And my answer to that is as incredible as Animation Mentor. I can’t wait to start the courses! Guess my stay-at-home Maya training will pay off Now lets just hope that the NOK increases or the USD falls a little before March 6th. Thats when my first tuition is due.

I was really scared after the Wonderlic exam as I thought it was really important to get high scores. And when I took it I wasn’t really sobered up after my birthday. The other thing about it is that its only 8 minutes. And then you don’t get to do shit! But even though I ended up not reading half the questions, (I can’t help that I’m a slow reader,) I guess it was good enough.

Tried to do some drawn animation in Flash too today, but I guess I suck more there than in PhotoShop. Why aren’t the hotkeys keys similar? -Because Adobe din’t make the first versions. Guess I’ll try ToonBoom next.

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I decided I wanted to make a new profile picture so the entire world can see my messy desk!

I call this 23… Its kind of inspired by the Memento cover.

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… its my birthday hurray! Or what should I say?
Guess I’ll call about that job today and see how I’m doing in the race. Not that its my dream job.

And then there is this; a song I’m not getting out of my head, and a music video that I have to see almost every day. As far as stop motion goes, this is F’n sweet!

This song has become my new alarm clock:p

Oh, and I must give the credit to Bobby Beck’s Blog for leading me to this video

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Yes sir, I spent a whole day watching past Webinars on AnimationMentor.com and doing my first 16 frame walk cycle in PhotoShop, and now its already too late to read more in The Illusion of Life; I’m a slow reader and the book is to heavy to read on my bead. Anyway going to the Doctors Office tomorrow still seem to get unbelievably sleepy around noon so hopefully the doctor can find something out.

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Ok, so I met up with Morten 10 some hours ago and followed him to Qvisten HQ, beforehand informed about the trainee spot , sadly, already taken. I can’t blame anybody; nobody knows me, and I completely understand that they wanted to hire someone they could trust.

Anyway over at Qvisten I got to look around a bit and even help out, as I am very happy to do. Morten had a assignment with a Stratos commercial, and this is a guy thats really fun to help out because he is always open for critique and tips, before I knew it I had been there for 8 hours. Cool!

I got to talk some with the other employees and one the supervisors as well, hope they made a positive impression of me as I would like to help out over there if I am allowed to. Morten is going to contact me tomorrow so that I can have a look at the render we worked on, can’t wait.

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I mean whats the point? When you start watching something it just gets pulled. Stupid abc…

 

I have recently sunken my teeth into Dirty Sexy Money, only to find out that its not going to air anymore. I should have checked for this before spending all those hours, but naive as I am I didn’t. And consequence follows.

Today I’m meeting up with Morten I think, he is probably going to show me around at Qvisten. But I really should get a haircut so i don’t scare anybody there. Its due you know.

Sent my CV to that other job as well, the most important thing for me now is to get some kind of experience so that somebody that doesn’t know me would take me seriously for once.

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The last couple of days I have updated to the latest version of WordPress and started on building my own design; amazing what you can do with some images and some tweaking in CSS… I guess the divs are blocking the background, but here it is if you want a closer look. Not much; just a collaboration. In other news… I still want a job! Got one for me? I received a phone call for a couple of hours ago about a job down here in the center of the city. It seemed alright, really the only thing bothering me now is that my friend, Morten, may have arranged for me to become a trainee on Qvisten which is awesome! This means that I’ll have to work for free, but that is well worth it! It is a little bit sad to hold back on the other job if I can’t get on the trainee program though. SO. I have to do something clever now! Anyway… this was not meant to be a story of my life kind of thing… Learning Maya is getting more interesting. The website I am working on for the guy I probably never mentioned is getting done, as soon as he pays me. Ah… I gotta go to sats now.

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Once more it has been a long time since I have posted anything.
I have discovered some nifty tools as of late; The Snipping Tool, this one came with my Vista Ultimate some how or I did not realize it before now. Really nice if you just want to print screen a tiny piece of your screen. Too bad there is no way, (that I know of at least,) you can make a hot-key for it. Thats the only flaw I can see now. There an alternative I have been using thought, (Gadwin PrintScreen,) and it lets you add hot-keys, sure there are others but I express the ones I have tried.

I have also come to like Google Chrome a lot, until now, as it is impossible to compose any type of e-mail in Hotmail with it. It also has issues with the 11 second club frame counter and always start loading pages on a white background. But it is quite nice to avoid the whole browser set crashing.

Last but not least. Ever heard of Oscars File Renamer? It is a free and nifty tool that lets you rename file names in any folder as if it was writing in note pad! This is great for organizing, say your mp3s or pictures? You do not need to rename them one by one you just type all the filenames and hit a button and thats it!

As for me, well I am doing okay, if you should care. Really want a job thought. I feel like an idiot for not having a job while I was younger, really. But I guess standing up for my friends seemed to be worth it then and there, I believe it will be the right choice in the long run thought.
I’m currently trying to get a job with a car rental service, I know it seems way out of my orientation, but I am a guy and I love cars so I think I can enjoy myself there, at least for a while.

Hope I remember to post

Edit 02.05.09:  
There is a temporary way to make Chrome working with hotmail etc. (QuickTime still an issue) add this to your shortcut:
–user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19″ 
 Example:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19″

Remember that you have to have all instances of chrome closed before running the shortcut; if you don’t it won’t work!

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