School and stuff...
So, another semester is well in swing. I'm currently taking four classes: Intro to Storyboarding, Games: Modeling and Texturing, English Comp 2: Narrative Storytelling, and Art Hist. thru the 19th century.
Storyboarding is a fun class, but it's REALLY hard to get A's. The teacher is really critical of everything. My first few assignments kind of bombed (Bs and a C!), but hard work has gotten me some really nice As. I'm determined to keep getting those As.
Games is vaguely interesting right now. Much of what we're doing (up until next week) is stuff I've done a few times before, so I'm not falling over myself trying out these new techniques. Next week should get exponentially more interesting as we delve into Zbrush and its amazing capabilities.
Storytelling is okay... rather boring when we study these handfuls of short stories. They aren't my favorites, but the writing assignments each week make things far more interesting.
History is just... well, history. It's fascinating and beautiful at times, and tedious at others. At least I can say I've found greater appreciation for specific artistic movements over time. It's much easier to appreciate something strange when you can understand what motivated the artist.
In other news, we started Audrey in soccer this semester. She's enjoying it so far. :)
Last month, Matthew went up to the northeast to research the frigate Philadelphia (II), which was captured by the Barbary pirates in the early 1800s (might be wrong on the time frame). A group of Americans sailed in to Tripoli under cover, snuck aboard, and set the ship on fire so that our enemies couldn't use it against us. It's still there, waiting to be unearthed, apparently beneath a parking lot. Anyways, the point of this research is for Matthew's thesis, and it turns out that there might be an expedition to Libya this summer to unearth the ship, which Matthew has been invited to join (he will be the only undergrad to accompany the team).
I've written a bit and posted two new chapters in tBA. Go me! And now I've got to get back to a Batman storyboard (haha) for class...
Storyboarding is a fun class, but it's REALLY hard to get A's. The teacher is really critical of everything. My first few assignments kind of bombed (Bs and a C!), but hard work has gotten me some really nice As. I'm determined to keep getting those As.
Games is vaguely interesting right now. Much of what we're doing (up until next week) is stuff I've done a few times before, so I'm not falling over myself trying out these new techniques. Next week should get exponentially more interesting as we delve into Zbrush and its amazing capabilities.
Storytelling is okay... rather boring when we study these handfuls of short stories. They aren't my favorites, but the writing assignments each week make things far more interesting.
History is just... well, history. It's fascinating and beautiful at times, and tedious at others. At least I can say I've found greater appreciation for specific artistic movements over time. It's much easier to appreciate something strange when you can understand what motivated the artist.
In other news, we started Audrey in soccer this semester. She's enjoying it so far. :)
Last month, Matthew went up to the northeast to research the frigate Philadelphia (II), which was captured by the Barbary pirates in the early 1800s (might be wrong on the time frame). A group of Americans sailed in to Tripoli under cover, snuck aboard, and set the ship on fire so that our enemies couldn't use it against us. It's still there, waiting to be unearthed, apparently beneath a parking lot. Anyways, the point of this research is for Matthew's thesis, and it turns out that there might be an expedition to Libya this summer to unearth the ship, which Matthew has been invited to join (he will be the only undergrad to accompany the team).
I've written a bit and posted two new chapters in tBA. Go me! And now I've got to get back to a Batman storyboard (haha) for class...