The show last weekend was exhausting but fun. I ended up helping out in the 'babes' changing room on Sunday; myself and one of the moms looking after 18 very excited children aged between 3 and 7. 17 girls and 1 boy- who was SUCH a little rogue! He ended up completely ignoring anything Sam (the mom) asked him to do, and would only listen to me. I ( Read more... )

Life has done a complete 180 since my last post ( Read more... )

Ping actually called me today regarding the China trip. They have my passport and £45, I have no visa and no flight.

I should have a visa by next Friday. Which gives the uni two weeks to get me a flight, confirm it with TongJi and get everything to me. And gives me, at most, a week and a half to hand in my notice (which will by then be a week and a ( Read more... )

A little thing, but it made me grin. Dad and I went to pick up my dissertation from uni today; the campus was deserted, but the FCET handin office was open. All I had to say was 'Hi, I'm here to pick up my dissertation' and a voice from deeper in the office replied with 'Oh it's Tegan! Yours is on that pile over there, second from the top. How's ( Read more... )

Finished Maya ^_^ Not really happy with it...the texturing of the body didn't work, the lights didn't work, the movie render didn't work, the body didn't deform properly around the chest... but my walk cycle was okay ( Read more... )

After my uber-stress night last night, this morning's attack of my Maya assignment went well. I now have a complete rig for my model, with the inverse kinematics working properly and the controllers applied in the right way. Just need to finish of the details and connect it to drive my model and the job's a good one ( Read more... )

Maya and I don't get on. To be specific, its texture editor Hypershade is the single most confusing interface I have ever had to work with, and I do not understand it at all ( Read more... )

1. Do NOT keep yourself awake at night worrying. There is no point. Any work you think you can do at stupid o'clock in the morning when you're panicky as hell will, likely as not, not be as good as it should be. Convince yourself you can do it (which in all honesty you can) and get some sleep ( Read more... )

I have to laugh- once again my uni assignment work has seen fit to screw up in spectacular style! Thankfully it's only the last part of the practical section of my MoCap assignment, I've already done the rest fine. But no matter what we try (and when I say we, I mean me and the tutor Dave who spent half an hour sitting with me trying to make it ( Read more... )

Someone commented recently that I'm one of the 'representative students' of the uni. And 'getting about a bit in the publicity' was another phrase. And yeah, having just seen and read all the things I have, I am ( Read more... )