June 16th, 2009
AnimationMentor Class 1 ProgressReel
Well I’m at the end of Term 1 in AM so here is what I have done in the last 11 weeks 
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Hope you enjoy =)
Hope you enjoy =)
June 15th, 2009
ThreadMaster GUI
Hey there people!
I got a little bummed out by my computer today, and want to share with you readers out there just to release some of my frustration:
Well it is summer! Yay! Sunny days and what not. This is all great, but it is not a great season for computers! I am currently on the end of the first term of AM and I decided to play a game on my computer for once. Based on what I have seen from E3 this year, (the new Splinter Cell game in this case,) I decided to just start playing the series. Starting with the first game that came out for quite a while ago. This didn’t turn out great, not only because of the horrible gameplay, but my frickin’ “CPU Alarm” went off.
I decided it was about time to clock down my CPU for the summer so that it wouldn’t overheat. Setting my system back to auto settings actually didn’t help me much; Windows constantly started freezing over. Which is strange, as that ment that I technically have clocked it down like 880MHz, but then I started thinking: “What if my CPU gets over loaded now that it is a whole lot slower?” So I set it back and my system is as stable as always. Now I think the big problem I have goten to is tat SC maxed out my load; making my CPU overheat.
This had me run the ol’Google for quite some hours, and what do I have to show for it? ThreadMaster GUI
Supposedly it is supposed to not set the priority, but limit applications CPU load. This won’t make your software run faster, but you can prevent the system from crashing or overheating; at least theoretically.
Or if these things doesn’t consern you, how about limiting the CPU laod of your antivirus scan, or while extracting files with WinRAR etc.? Making you able to use your system even though it is runing a CPU heavy process.
June 3rd, 2009
A little bit of term 1
Just wanted to share some of the assignments I have done at AM so far.
This is the Basic Foundations Course and there is currently one assignment left
you can download it from here (Quicktime)
Next up walk with personality.
June 3rd, 2009
Summer!
Oh my, things have happened since last time that I cannot even start to mention. I’m really sorry for my lack of blogging lately, but it is getting hot outside. (In my case that means pretty hot inside as well.) I want to share my AM work so far and I’ll do it in the next post, but for category purposes I’d like to keep this post about what has been going on lately. Or for over a month.
Since my last post I have gotten hold of the Broken Sword port for the Wii, being sometimes annoyed with the horrible sound work, but it really brought back a lot of good memories.
Seen Monsters Vs Aliens and Coraline. Won’t go into details.
I have been a lot with my good friends and have had relatives for visits.
Norway won in Eurovision, which meant that I had to be in hiding for a couple of days because of the annoying song, which obviously appeared everywhere.
May 17th came along.
A few days later a bookstore right outside my apartment had to close down, so they had a sale where I managed to get a hold of a lot of cheep books and DVDs.
A lot of TV-Shows has ended over the days, and some good news about some shows returning.
Lucas Arts and Telltale Games announces some stuff that makes me smile wide, involving the Monkey Island franchise. Additionally Brutal Legend has got a release date and is looking frickin’ awesome!
It is getting hotter every day and my computer seem to hate it.
I get above average grades on AM and am pretty sure I’ll manage to stay in the mix for term two.
My car is apparently going to cost me a lot this year :S
I have spent some time over at Qvisten Animation Studio.
Metallica concert featuring Lamb of God June 17th.
I’m leaving for Hove festival June 19th.
I better get to bed and start this week’s assignments.
Oh, and unless I leave the country I won’t be able to see UP before the end of September :S
April 21st, 2009
Got My first B =)
Really should have crashed on my pillow for like 3 hours ago, but I was really worried for my recent assignment on AM.
Luckily Ruth read what I was going for and I can go to sleep soundly with a very unexpected B grade! The current weeks assignment was just a bouncing ball and another Stu-pose, but I really spent a lot of time on it, so I was really glad to see that my effort payed off.
Almost all of my relatives came to visit this weekend. Even my cute little niece shared her presence, and how she has grown . My father was really nice and generous this weekend too; taking the family out to eat no less then two times in their stay. We even got to go to this tasty Thai food place called Yaya’s. Really, really spicy stuff! If your ever there I dare you to taste the lamb dish, (I’m going to try not to go into today’s toilet visits.)
My nephew, Oliver(5), is really getting into video games. To be frank its quite scary how he looses contact with the outside world; He rarely has time to eat even. I let him play some while he was at my place and he seems to respect me enough to let me control his playtime, but when he is over at my sisters he gets totally out of control when implying that he has been playing for 3 hours and needs a break. A little fun to feel that he respects me more, but I guess he doesn’t know me too well yet.
This weeks assignment is about dropping two balls with different weight at the same time. I guess I’ll start planning tomorrow. Sounds like I’m completely new to this but its being critiqued with laser sight and its really nice to get a good feel of timing and spacing before we get into the more advanced rigs.
Stu gets engaged
I have passed about 150 visits as well. Hopefully some of these people return and I have some plans to get some more layers to this site in the future. If you are using Internet Explorer I suggest you try another browser because the site is kind of focused to work well in browsers like Firefox and Chrome, and some of the visuals as well as the scrolling don’t work very well with IE. I think it is really strange that these features never get included in IE and I guess they never will either. Anyway I strongly request that you comment on my posts as it makes the blogging a lot more interesting. Thanks for stopping by!
April 14th, 2009
You never know.
I got a bit disappointed when I got my critique back on my Stu pose, mainly because the story didn’t get through. I have been taking my Mentors notes in consideration, but I don’t think she actually got what I was going for. So now I’m uploading a picture with some quick notes and a little revision on how one of the legs could have been to make the pose look a bit more “strained”. I don’t really know if things matter too much, but I just want to speak my mind because I felt that I got some really good critiques from my class. Anyway here goes:
Some notes on week 2
April 5th, 2009
First assignment out
This week I have to get out and doodle. No animation assignment yet, really. AM are very careful and make us go in with a gentle approach.
The assignment this week is to go out and sit down at a public place and do thumbnail drawings of what we see around us and hopefully get down a lot different poses. Then we are going to look at our poses and decide what we think is most successful and draw a circle around it. When all that is done we will take the favorite pose and try to copy it into Stu and hopefully get a good pose with personality.
I feel really confident with Stu now and I have even worked on a little animation on him jumping around, so the drawing will be the most challenging part of this assignment, but they don’t expect the drawings to be perfect; stick figures will do. I sort of have a little idea on collecting poses as well; drag my camera around and take some pictures rather than trying to grab the poses right off the bat. So the biggest challenge is to find the place where the poses happen. I need to know the perfect public place. Maybe the train station?
April 3rd, 2009
Trying out Stu
Played around with Stu a bit tonight, basically just to get to know him. And I must say he seems pretty easy to pose.
The biggest downside is that the hip controls are on top of the lower-back controls. That makes it a bit hard to click, but you get used to it. I even tried to put two Stu rigs in the same scene to test that out and it seems to work fine. Can’t wait for the assignments. I know what they are, but its kind of cheating to start this early
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