Christmas Art Nouveau Advert (and a rant on the side)

So, Uni Pt2. has begun.
I think the class has learnt to stay in the studio longer this year. We got assignments on day one... two assignments.  The Tv students were thrust upon us Animators and dealt to deal with them and work with them on a christmas episode. Not only did I never even meet the Tv students, but I don't recall them actually contributing to the project. Angry to say the least.  I wrote the script for the advert on day one, so my part was complete until the final stage which was the presentation powerpoint which I was meant to work on with Maj, Lucie organised and had final say as both Producer and Director. She was nice, hearing out everyones opinions before her final decision, Harriet Mira and Sam did art work and storyboarding then Amid edited... the tv students... found the track Sam chose and... took Amids footage of the meetings to make a documentary... which we never saw -.-

the thing was decent... i cried with laughter when I saw it for the first time put together, not the intended response but maybe thats because it was cringy and embarrassing more than anything else, have a look:

The second project, was less of a stress to do, but more a pain to find time to complete. Its Thursday today, and that means Class at the Poly all day tomorrow, so no time to animate before my parents come to visit at 7pm. I mean there is about 3 hours if it doesn't over-run, but then dinner and travel time, not really worth it in my opinion. This means that on Monday I have until 1pm to get it done from the time it takes me to wake up. Ill show you the problem this causes this is the piece I am meant to me Imitating:

and this is what's happened so far:

day 1 

 

day 2 (today)

so you see... its going to take longer than (9am-1pm = 4hours) 4 hrs to complete when i spent 5 hrs today and 3 the day before on this. and before anyone messages me saying 'do it at home' i can't afford to pay for adobe software.. and its pretty impossible to torrent a Mac version of Photoshop without the Adobe Suit mucking everything up so I don't even try. 

all in all. i like the advert, i do, I just wish i could have contributed more to the animatic, and as for the Art nouveau piece i need to copy... well Ill keep you updated on its progress next week. 

:) 

Not-so-Urgh

So I was allocated Project Manager today for out Penryn 800 project.... so that either means everyones going to hate me for nagging them to get the work done to we can finish the animation, or they'll love me because we might (hopefully) get an amazing grade and blitz this term.... but i doubt it... :/

i did all the organising today so I'm pretty chuffed with myself - a predominantly lazy sofa dweller. drafting up a schedule for the next couple of weeks with all the jobs that need to be done, informal deadlines, COLOUR CODED OF COURSE. i even  wrote a proper script today for the the in-betweeners to go along with ( thats myself and Sophia) as well as the background designer (Adam)

im not exactly sure what Chris is doing, but thats because he's been away for over a week with family problems... he could be lying but id like to think he would make stuff like that up... We will of course be finding something for him to do, a project to take over. I might even allocate him Swords, Bows and Sheilds to design for the Spanish troops.... we shall see :)

Im just so happy I'm finally getting organised and getting on top of things.