Goodbye

Well, this blog is officially dead. I think mostly because I love to post pics and blogger makes it a huge pain in the ass.

So... let us have a moment of silence......









Well! See you on Tumblr :)

Halloween

XD XD XD

HALLOWEEN! It's unfortunately not really celebrated in Singapore. But my school organized a Halloween party (on Friday) so I celebrated it for the first time :):):)

Friday is the day with the fewest lessons, only 2 1 hour lectures and the party started at 6 so me and my friend had a looooooooooot of time to kill.

Went to the com lab first to do 3D homework. This week we had to model a present(complete with ribbon) and a dining table set.

After that went to AMK hub to eat. Finally found a suitable belt for my Kyoko! X3

And then I checked my phone at about 3+ and realised Mel released from school at about 12.45.....efffffffffffff ><

:(

After that, walked back to school and slacked in the library for a while.

Oh yeah, the whole time, from lesson end (10am) to go home ( abt 10pm) (z0mg I was in school for more than 12 hrs 0.o), I looked like this

Yup! Short orange hair, cat ears and goth-loli outfit. Very sad that I don't have a cat tail. :(

Seriously, I even went to AMK Hub and back, looking like this. With my friend of course :)

Didn't really do a lot of trick or treating so my goodies only like that.

So the party started around 6.30+. It was fun to see some of the teachers dress up. My 3D teacher was Tony Stark. He wore a long sleeved tee and jeans with an LED light under his shirt. So there was the circle of lights thing on his chest :) He also had one on his hand

Another teacher dressed up as the Other Mother from Coraline.

She put huge black buttons on glasses and then carried a box with another pair of black buttons and a needle. Then she go up to girls and ask if we want to have buttons sewn on our eyes. LOL XD

There was a haunted house though I didn't go in.

And then at around 8+ they showed Sweeney Todd.

They projected it onto a wall. X) Finally got to watch it till the end (coz on Channel 5 always show late late at night :( ).

Then went home and zzzzzzz

XD

(sigh, iPhoto is refusing to detect my iPhone so some pics I later then upload)

Beijing II

... I think I should add the photos another time... if not I think I will never finish blogging this

....*siiigggghhhhhhh*

Pic dump:

Beijing Trip

I really should have posted this earlier, (I came back last Thursday night), but I got kinda...distracted, more on that later.

This is gonna be kind of a long post so I'm gonna take a few days to blog everything k? :)

So anyway, I went to Beijing for about a week. First time I didn't go with tour. We went in summer so the weather was kinda...weird I guess. It was like kinda warm everywhere the sun shines, but the wind is cold...so you can be feeling hot one moment and cold the next. Yeah...

I stayed in a service apartment which is sort of like a hotel but the layout is more like a house.

This is like the living room.

This is the office room. (?)

My bedroom :) Yup, for once I got a room to myself while on holiday

My parents room, slightly bigger and has a TV and bathroom. The bathroom also had both a shower area and a bathtub :)

So when we reached there it was like late evening so of course we couldn't go anywhere, just sort of walked around a bit. There was a 7-11 nearby so we went there to buy some stuff. Bought this cute little box of chewing gum.

Yeah, totally bought it for the box. At first, I didn't know it was chewing gum, I thought it was just some strawberry flavored sweet.

And inside, they even give a packet of small thin translucent little papers for you to throw the gum away. XD

There was also a brown bear one but that was green tea flavoured XP

The next day, we went for a local tour to the Great Wall and the Ming Tomb(s). So for local tour its just a small group of people and a local tour guide. The tour guide's english was... understandable I guess. It was off-peak season even though it was Saturday, coz it was just after a major holiday there. So on the tour there was only a total of 7 ppl, including me and my parents, 2 indians and 2 angmohs( I don't remember what country because of the next day's one... you'll see what I mean). So anyway, the others were just there for business and were just touring the popular destinations before starting their work.

The first place we went to was the Great Wall. I didn't actually climb much of course (that would be INSANE). There was a cable car that took us to somewhere sort of nearish the top of one of the towers and then we climbed up from there. Ad it was T.I.R.I.N.G. !!!!!!!!!!!!!

It alternated between slopes and steps. The slopes were SO STEEP, like almost 45 degrees (?) and the steps very uneven in height. Like some short some taller. So while climbing up the steps, 1 leg would be more tired than the other.

Some pics:

You can see quite a lot of people right? Yeah... this is OFF-PEAK season. Imagine PEAK season...

Nice scenery.

You know how its supposed to be colder the higher up you go... yeah... SO NOT TRUE at the top, it was warmer than at the bottom

There was also quite a few old people. Really awesome how they managed to "survive".

...yeah this has only been like about 3+ hours into the 1st day but I guess I'll stop here for now... coz dragging pics in Blogger is reeeeeeaaalllllyyyyy irritating

so To Be Continued... XD

The Animator's Survival Kit

ooooh SHINYYYYYYY..... *_*

Well, so this was the book that we had to buy. When I saw it at Kinokuniya it was $59.99!!! but in school we can buy it for $33. :)

It's actually very interesting to read. It doesn't get too technical and the sentences are not very long. Oh, and it has lots of purrtty peeeekturessssssss..... *_*

...As for being the extended version, it has a few extra pages at the back.

PIXAR

XDXDXDXDXXXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDDXDXDXDXDXDXD

...yeah

So anyway, yesterday, I went to the Pixar exhibition at the Science Centre and it was AWESOME!!!!

We got to get in with the price of $9 instead of $21 coz my whole class went with the school. Apparently its not enough to just show a student card to get a discount. Everyone in my course had to go because, we're doing animation and, yeah...

When we got there the first thing to do was to watch Toy Story, the original one, in 3D. It didn't really look that different, coz it was made so long ago then just turned to 3D, the 3d effect doesn't really make much difference. But it was great watching the first movie again, haven't seen it in a long time. :)

And the drawings and sketches and sculptures in there were AMAZING!!

Like many of the "mood panels" were painted on little triangles only slightly bigger than a postage stamp. Using ACRYLIC PAINT! Like there were some storyboards of A Bug's Life drawn that way. With little ant silhouettes!!!!

And there was a Toy Story zoetrope with the toy soldiers parachuting out of their bucket, Jessie, from Toy Story 2, twirling a lasso, Buzz Lightyear on a bouncy ball, Woody riding the horse and the little three-eyes aliens jumping around, popping in and out of the ground or just waving. It showed the whole thing spinning to see the figures moving, then slowed down to show that its actually many figures in different consecutive poses then sped it up again. It was really cool but looking at it too long could give you a headache coz of the flickering effect.

And there was this dark room with a long screen and they were projecting the storyboards with a little extra animation here and there and with some awesome sound effects it was like you could really feel like you were in that environment...It's kinda hard to describe but it was AWESOME!!!!!!

And some of my classmates were like saying, no wonder our Design Fundamental teacher keeps on telling us "You guy no concept"!. Coz all the stuff there was amazing!. Like Sulley from Monsters' Inc. went through many different redesigns and every single detail was worked out. Like there was this one picture with a model of Sulley and little notes indicating how the fur on the different parts of his body should be animated. And even the direction of the fur was specified. Like there was this paper with many different Sulley heads, coloured in the final colours, and pieces of tracing paper taped over each half-heads to experiment different fur directions for his face.

And like at the Ratatouille section, there were 5 drawings of the exact same view, outside the restaurant Gusteau's, but at different times of the day, early morning, morning, afternoon, evening and night.

And all the drawings were just AWESOME!!!! Like there was this Charcoal(!) drawing of Bruce the shark from Finding Nemo. And also many pastel and acrylic paintings. Acrylic! Which is a huge pain in the ass to use but the way they use it to blend colours and create shades and pictures was like poster paint. Also, many of the later movies, like Ratatouille, Cars etc. had more digital paintings than those using physical media. But they looked like they had been drawn using markers or pencil or paint etc.

Oh and also there were these little exhibitions where they projected images on the walls. Like they would show a close up of a wireframe and then as it zoomed out the picture would form slowly, from inside out until finally they showed the full rendered image. All of us were like hypnotized, staring at the wall and like guessing which character or object the wireframes were and that was at the entrance of the exhibition! And like there was a family with 2 young kids and they just took one look at the images of the wireframes then just walked away. LOL XD

And they also showed some of Pixar's early works like Luxo Jr, Knick Knack etc...

Oh and also at the very end of the exhibition, like next to the exit, the first thing you see after you turn the corner is NANYANG POLYTECHNIC ><.

Yeah, at the end they also showcased some local work from NYP, TP, SP and some companies like Scrawl studios. But we were like saying how the NYP section seemed a bit... biased coz on our wall was like a timline of the school's awards and there were also some production bibles while the other walls just had pictures of characters XD

And I got a black and white (ok, GREY and white) minnie mouse soft toy! XD

Pix

I got this last weekend but still haven't posted on me blog

It's Hibari's hedgehog!!!! ><

It's actually a sharpener. The holes are at the underside. Found this at a stationary shop at Funan. Was originally all laight orange so I painted it :) And is actually better than my previous sharpener coz it has a smaller hole and a slightly bigger-sized one for my thicker pencils :)

Oh and also,

Got laptop skins >< >< !!!!!

Yea, the outside and inside are diff designs coz I LOVE that crown thing but I also wanted to decorate my own laptop so I bought a simpler design. Gonna draw somethin in that white space XD

Oh and it's an Acer coz my mom bought it like about 2 or more years ago for work but didn't use it much and then she changed job so currently she very rarely uses it. And I'm probably not gonna use it that often so... No Macbook for me :(

Oh well, iMac and Cintiq is still very good already....

Though about 75% or more of ppl in my course have Macbook...

...But now I TOTALLY love my Acer!!!!!!! YEA! XD