It's AP Exam season, so class has been a bit weird lately. I did get the invitation in gif form, but unfortunately, in the email browser it only displays as a still image. Oh well, if people download it they can see it, and if not, they'll still get the necessary info. Then on Tuesday I helped Sam set up some basic formatting on the paper program for the High School Awards Ceremony at the end of the year. Wednesday I was gone for an AP exam, so no work was done. Thursday I started working on this blog post and helped Ryan test the point system in our game. We have a way to win now! Yay! Friday was more game testing, and I feel like even if it's not perfect, we will have a playable game. Julia is in the process of getting the updated building imported, and in just under 2 weeks we'll be presenting this to faculty, staff, and parents. Goals For Next Week:
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This week was pretty relaxed, and only 4 days long as protests split the week in half. I worked on the GAD Showcase invitations, which I reworked to look a little less like a poster and more like an invite. Erin also suggested to me that since these invitations will be sent over email, I should make them animated invites, especially since all of her work for the class is animation. It took me a bit of time to figure out how I wanted to do this, but basically I am going to use each frame of the gif she sent me, import them onto the invite, and create new frames from that which will be turned into its own gif. It sounds like a long process, but it really isn't, in fact, I'm sure that they'll be ready by Tuesday. I also added a really basic 2-frame animation of the chicken to the invites that give me some serious Myst vibes, so I just hope some people show up to see our work (and I hope that our game works by then, it seems like Ryan has been making great progress on salvaging it from where it was the week before). Goals For This Week:
This week was pretty boring honestly, because our project has suddenly become a waiting game. I did get the plants that go in the atrium from last week imported, but that was Monday. Since then, we have been in the process of moving all project assets to a new project file because an update caused all of our scripts to be outdated. This has halted pretty much all production for now, but also, I'm pretty much done with modeling anyway, and it's just time to get the scripting together (which has to be now completely redone). However, I did try to work on designing the invitations/posters for our showcase at the end of the year. I need to ask Mr. B for more specifics, but I started playing around with layout towards the end of the week. We had a portfolio review earlier in the week which also took up some of my time. Overall though, I would like this upcoming week to be more productive, so I think I'm going to follow some basic VRTK tutorials so that maybe I can help get this scripting done. It might not work at all, but hey, it's not terrible knowledge to have regardless, and it gives me something to do in an effort to help the project. Goals For Next Week:
I've been thinking a lot about social media lately. As someone who wants to try to make a career out of being an artist, putting my artwork out there and networking are both super important, but social media can often distract me from work. I thought that it was motivating me to make more art so that I could post more, but I reviewed my entire art account at the start of 2019, and I realized that there were entire months where I didn't make a single art post! Most of my posts came in bursts of like four pieces at once and then radio silence. I spend most of my social media time on my personal account instead of my art one, but am I really gaining anything from that?
So I'm trying to make some new social media goals for this year. Unfollow Everyone (Personal Account) This is an exaggeration, but I have been gradually unfollowing everyone who is
Post Schedule (Art Account) I don't want to have months of no content, so even if it's posting works-in-progress all of the time, I want to start having specific days that I'll post on, and I think this starts with creating an art social media trello board. This way, I can have deadlines for when to post things, as well as what I want to post (progress on project A or project B? Finished piece C?). This will also help me stick to deadlines for completing pieces since I want to be able to post. However, as a trello board, it's also flexible enough that I could always move stuff around and post random doodles if I need more content/ want to post more often. Comment on Other People's Posts More (Art Account) If social media feels more like a community and I potentially make some more art friends, I think I will feel more motivated to post. And if not, well, at least I'm letting other people know that I appreciate their work. Anyway, those are my goals, if anyone who reads this has any other tips, comment them I guess! |
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