So this is what a job feels like...
Guess its time to jump back. I guess this is a good outlet for some talking out and recording.
So... I'm exhausted... but a GOOD exhausted. Lets just recap what's been going on in the last month:
NUMBER ONE: SUMMER!!!!!
Uh.... SUMMER STARTED... okay...
NUMBER TWO: VOICE OVER
I saw the course and I jumped it- a Voice-over class. Essentially we locked ourselves in a room for 2 hours, talked into a mic and heard stuff played back. My wonderful professor, Ted Sluberski is everything I want out of an entertainment business teacher: No bullshit, hard honesty, and a boat load of knowledge about the BUSINESS side of entertainment. Basically, not only did he help me get some basic mic technique and feedback about my potential about being a voice over artist (to which he actually thinks I can make it in this business), but how to make money in entertainment: something that many of us "artists" forget when training. Cuz... hey... off-broadway plays aren't exactly going to pay the rent. He recommended some places and people, I decided to be diligent, and BAM. I'm going in for a consultation with Peter Rofe and some Animation/Video Game projam sessions with Marla Kirban (well, Bruce Kronenburg is the one who's been answer my emails). Anyway, psyched as SHIT and coming one step closer to being a voice-actor for cartoons and animation.
NUMBER THREE: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Its only the first couple of days. I had to write a program that decides if a day in a year is a holiday or not. The program itself is simple. The actual coding of the program is not. And i can WRITE ONE. Needless to say I'm super proud of myself
NUMBER FO---- *cough*... NUMBER FOUR: REALITY SHOW (see what i did there, hi egoraptor i be plagerizing)
I can't gush enough about the fact that I still can't believe I'm part of this amazing project. I was honestly so terrified about being the only sophmore in this group of people while everyone knew everyone else from other stuff or from reality show last year or even more. Even so, how supportive and comforting this group of people have been to me and accepting into their group. I can say that I still have some confidence issues, but as Preston says, the insecurity drain is always there. After about one month in, I'm probably still not satisfied with the work I'm producing and contributing to the group, but what I have been learning has been so overwhelmingly awesome and has helped me understand myself better as an artist outside of a classroom situation, what it means to have the opportunity to create art for the sake of creating art and not because a teacher assigned assignments. Well, they did some of that in the realityshow but WHO CARES. Also. Liz Swados is a sha-woman. Really.
NUMBER FIVE: THE 3DS
After much deliberation and contemplation with summer sales at Gamestop, in the battle of the 3DS came out on top of the PS Vita... for now... only because the PS Vita has an amazing white bundle coming out with Assasins Creed: Liberations WOOOTT! (I STILL need to finish playing the other GAMES. ANGEL WTF.) There will be an entire new post (when I have the time) to obsess over Final Fantasy Theatrhythm and Devil's Survivor OVERCLOCKED. Oh... and i PRE-ORDERED KINGDOM HEARTS DREAM DROP HELL YEAH.
That's all I can summon out of me for now. Back to forcing myself to FINISHING GAMES I SHOULD FINISH.
So... I'm exhausted... but a GOOD exhausted. Lets just recap what's been going on in the last month:
NUMBER ONE: SUMMER!!!!!
Uh.... SUMMER STARTED... okay...
NUMBER TWO: VOICE OVER
I saw the course and I jumped it- a Voice-over class. Essentially we locked ourselves in a room for 2 hours, talked into a mic and heard stuff played back. My wonderful professor, Ted Sluberski is everything I want out of an entertainment business teacher: No bullshit, hard honesty, and a boat load of knowledge about the BUSINESS side of entertainment. Basically, not only did he help me get some basic mic technique and feedback about my potential about being a voice over artist (to which he actually thinks I can make it in this business), but how to make money in entertainment: something that many of us "artists" forget when training. Cuz... hey... off-broadway plays aren't exactly going to pay the rent. He recommended some places and people, I decided to be diligent, and BAM. I'm going in for a consultation with Peter Rofe and some Animation/Video Game projam sessions with Marla Kirban (well, Bruce Kronenburg is the one who's been answer my emails). Anyway, psyched as SHIT and coming one step closer to being a voice-actor for cartoons and animation.
NUMBER THREE: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Its only the first couple of days. I had to write a program that decides if a day in a year is a holiday or not. The program itself is simple. The actual coding of the program is not. And i can WRITE ONE. Needless to say I'm super proud of myself
NUMBER FO---- *cough*... NUMBER FOUR: REALITY SHOW (see what i did there, hi egoraptor i be plagerizing)
I can't gush enough about the fact that I still can't believe I'm part of this amazing project. I was honestly so terrified about being the only sophmore in this group of people while everyone knew everyone else from other stuff or from reality show last year or even more. Even so, how supportive and comforting this group of people have been to me and accepting into their group. I can say that I still have some confidence issues, but as Preston says, the insecurity drain is always there. After about one month in, I'm probably still not satisfied with the work I'm producing and contributing to the group, but what I have been learning has been so overwhelmingly awesome and has helped me understand myself better as an artist outside of a classroom situation, what it means to have the opportunity to create art for the sake of creating art and not because a teacher assigned assignments. Well, they did some of that in the realityshow but WHO CARES. Also. Liz Swados is a sha-woman. Really.
NUMBER FIVE: THE 3DS
After much deliberation and contemplation with summer sales at Gamestop, in the battle of the 3DS came out on top of the PS Vita... for now... only because the PS Vita has an amazing white bundle coming out with Assasins Creed: Liberations WOOOTT! (I STILL need to finish playing the other GAMES. ANGEL WTF.) There will be an entire new post (when I have the time) to obsess over Final Fantasy Theatrhythm and Devil's Survivor OVERCLOCKED. Oh... and i PRE-ORDERED KINGDOM HEARTS DREAM DROP HELL YEAH.
That's all I can summon out of me for now. Back to forcing myself to FINISHING GAMES I SHOULD FINISH.