I have been animating a three second animation for the past six hours
This is going to be my life
June 2013
121 posts
so like, I’d seen a large part of Colony Collapse or read about it in parts and such
but I finally watched it all the way through and can I just -
GOB spends a whole evening in a manic haze telling stories to people who aren’t awake to hear him.
he has a really fun night and immediately goes to pop a roofie for no reason whatsoever, because his life is a regular cycle of being ashamed of himself.
someone asks him what he wants and it reduces him to a babbling terror fit.
he can’t deal with the people who do want to love him because he has no clue what that looks like. but then he has the chance to dismiss the first real connection he’s made with someone, and to pretend that he’s figuratively/literally making love to himself as usual, which would save him embarrassment and let him continue to run away from anything real.
and he can’t.
and then I cried and never stopped.
I’m in pain.
Literal… pain..
Oh my God I am just in the worst state of mind right now
Because I’m really uncomfortable and I’ve been alternating sitting down for 8 hours straight and walking 5 miles and then slugging through a crowd for an hour and
I’ve just gotten to the point where I’m either sort of out of it or something hits me and I spend the next half hour sporadically returning to it and cackling manically
And I’ve needed to go to bed for the last half hour and I can’t make myself stop and now I’m in “cackling manically” mode and probably making my very nice hostel roommate wonder what the Hell I’m doing
I fukin love 14th century art art because everyone looks so shady and suspicious of ppl around them its AMAZING
or just like they know something u dont and oh my gdfuck i cant
I believe the highest point is reached in Simone Martini’s Annunciation
and the look of absolute hatred Mary and Gabriel exchange.
Is it me or is New York City kinda boring
Like, 99% of the things you “gotta do” are just mulling absently in a herd of other tourists so thick that waddling is your main form of locomotion
You’re going to throw down at least 20 bucks for a good meal, so it’s not like unless you’re just filthy rich you can turn your wallet-brain off and enjoy buying things spontaneously unless you, you know, don’t mind not eating
In fact, everything costs a ridiculous amount of money, to the point where even small things you’d like to do get soured by the fact that you have to fork over a wad of cash to even get close to it
And everything
Eeeverything has a layer of filth on it
As someone who is veeery particular when it comes to things like bathrooms, it has been an uncomfortable trip and I’m kind of grumpy
Goddamnit I’m hella jacked on extra rich dark hot chocolate and 8 straight hours of animation class
I need to sleep and get ready for tomorrow
But all I want to do
Is draaaaaaaaaaw
Howdy, y’all. Blogging from the Big Apple. I know I’ve been fairly quiet as far as this goes, but I’m actually here on a secret mission, AKA a 3 Day VanArts Masterclass taught by seasoned Pixar animators that my school funded for me to go to.
So I just sat for 8 hours listening to one of the lead animators for Monsters Inc, Monsters U, Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2 and a bunch of other movies lecturing on everything to do with character animation. I have never felt more worthless and motivated at the same time before… tomorrow’s class is going to be devoted to Story Development, and Sunday’s going to be about Character Design. When it’s all over, I may try to organize up my notes and post them if anybody’s interested in seeing them.
