School and summer holidays
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:40 am
I'm so busy in school I just fell asleep as soon as I came from school. Last Thursday was a holiday in Finland and many schools were closed on Friday, too, but I was on school all Thursday, Friday AND Sunday. And on Saturday, I moved from one apartment to another. And it wasn't just 6-7 hours either; on Sunday I was in school from 12.30 (near noon) to about 21.00.
We're having a final week or so of an international project, so a group of Finns, Estonians and Icelanders are trying to finish everything we got done last summer in Estonia and last winter in Iceland. I'm mostly trying to help everyone else have their stuff done in time. We need to have the comic books ready for printing very soon, do more paper doll animations, composite several of them together into scenes with watercolour backgrounds in After Effects, and we haven't even started moving them out to Premiere for the sound work... Also the documentary and the webpage, but I only have to write a little about the origins of some mythological beings and creatures for those. And the interviews, but I'm not the one doing those.
And after all that's done or we run out of time, I can return to the game project, which we have to finish and publicly show in, oh, around the end of the month. So far we only have one boss working and only one level both working and looking good. Most animations are done (the third boss was being worked on last I saw it) and all three levels (each divided into two parts + boss fight) are either working or looking good, but there's either tidying and effects OR scripting missing from them.
And when school ends on early June, I'm going to stay in school without teachers to work on my texturing and rendering skills, with the goal of being able to do good-looking, pretty or cool things when school starts again. You know, a scene instead of a picture of a hammer, or an ancient hammer of magical powers instead of a hammer. GOOD pictures, quality models. Stuff that wouldn't be too out-of-place in professional works. And that takes approximately seven weeks of my June and July holidays. The eight week? Refresher training. With luck, I'll be running around lugging 200 kilos of equipment through hot, steam forests full of bugs and mosquitoes after my blood and flesh, and full of people who, for the last six to twelve months, have been taught to make it hard for me. With BAD luck, I'll be doing the same in rain and thunderstorms, crawling through mud in wet and dirty clothes and standing watch without being allowed to use fires because "the enemy" is somewhere close by.
So, yeah, how's school for you guys, and do any of you have anything interesting planned for summer?
P.S.Writing this post took one-and-a-half, maybe two hours. Or so. In between, I had to convert a video into an image sequence, discuss movie transitions, teach After Effect basics, try to explain in English why the printer isn't running out of ink even though it looks like it is, and crawl under a few tables to open windows because it's so hot in here, and transfer files between various computers using my USB sticks, and explain to teachers where they'll be needed next, and some other stuff.
We're having a final week or so of an international project, so a group of Finns, Estonians and Icelanders are trying to finish everything we got done last summer in Estonia and last winter in Iceland. I'm mostly trying to help everyone else have their stuff done in time. We need to have the comic books ready for printing very soon, do more paper doll animations, composite several of them together into scenes with watercolour backgrounds in After Effects, and we haven't even started moving them out to Premiere for the sound work... Also the documentary and the webpage, but I only have to write a little about the origins of some mythological beings and creatures for those. And the interviews, but I'm not the one doing those.
And after all that's done or we run out of time, I can return to the game project, which we have to finish and publicly show in, oh, around the end of the month. So far we only have one boss working and only one level both working and looking good. Most animations are done (the third boss was being worked on last I saw it) and all three levels (each divided into two parts + boss fight) are either working or looking good, but there's either tidying and effects OR scripting missing from them.
And when school ends on early June, I'm going to stay in school without teachers to work on my texturing and rendering skills, with the goal of being able to do good-looking, pretty or cool things when school starts again. You know, a scene instead of a picture of a hammer, or an ancient hammer of magical powers instead of a hammer. GOOD pictures, quality models. Stuff that wouldn't be too out-of-place in professional works. And that takes approximately seven weeks of my June and July holidays. The eight week? Refresher training. With luck, I'll be running around lugging 200 kilos of equipment through hot, steam forests full of bugs and mosquitoes after my blood and flesh, and full of people who, for the last six to twelve months, have been taught to make it hard for me. With BAD luck, I'll be doing the same in rain and thunderstorms, crawling through mud in wet and dirty clothes and standing watch without being allowed to use fires because "the enemy" is somewhere close by.
So, yeah, how's school for you guys, and do any of you have anything interesting planned for summer?
P.S.Writing this post took one-and-a-half, maybe two hours. Or so. In between, I had to convert a video into an image sequence, discuss movie transitions, teach After Effect basics, try to explain in English why the printer isn't running out of ink even though it looks like it is, and crawl under a few tables to open windows because it's so hot in here, and transfer files between various computers using my USB sticks, and explain to teachers where they'll be needed next, and some other stuff.
I'll provide links once it's up somewhere, since I'm sure everybody here is SOOO interested in a badly balanced, cliched platformer game some students made with Unity. 