DP Thanksgiving

The school's cafe had a free Thanksgiving meal today, thank goodness. 

The upperclassmen warned us that holiday meals go fast. The moment my morning class got out, my roommate and I rushed to the line. We were 40 minutes early, but we were still probably 20 people away from the front. It was ridiculous. It was like waiting for a concert. By the time the food was being served, the food line was wrapping around the entire first floor.

People kept trying to cut us and act like we knew them, but thank goodness, we still got some food.

The cafe actually has some really tasty things. They serve a lot of food for the price (whole chickens? a mound of brisket?), but it's still not worth paying $8 every meal. 

They have soup, sandwiches, pizza, and salad for cheaper though, and their desserts are usually $1-3

But hey, this is a cupcake. Isn't that the most intense cupcake you've ever seen?

Chocolate with a white chocolate mousse topping and a lemon cream filling, dipped in white chocolate. Yoooo.

Pizza is the main food source of the students here since it's the cheapest option at the cafe next to the salad (but how many people choose to get salad when they can get pizza?). There's always crazy flavors like mayo (? really just a pizza with only mayo?), cheeseburger, and the infamous Digimac. 

I had Digimac for the first time on Friday. It's just mac and cheese, bacon pizza. If you ask any of the students how they feel about it, they just say, "death."

I understand that now.

but here's a picture of some of the pizza boxes after this semester's big school-wide LAN party. This doesn't include the JJ sandwiches that were available.

Mastercopy

We had to do a master copy of a Renaissance portrait for Art 101. I wish I had another day or two to render it more, but oh well. We'll see.

We had a critique in class, but ran out of time by the time we got to mine. My professor ended up not giving much feedback, but as the next class was filing in, the professor went straight to mine and complimented it. That was nice.

Rain

The people here who say the rain isn't that bad simply aren't the ones who have to walk everywhere in it.

Bouncing Balls

We had to animate three bouncing ball cycles: 

The gifs don't do the animations any justice (It looks like it cut out some frames?), but I figure they're still the best way to show them off

We had two weeks to work on them, and this is only our second 'real' animation assignment.

Next week, we animate tails.

Ray Guns............

Okay, a few weeks ago we also got one hell of an assignment. It was one of those assignments that the teacher assigned for the sake of giving us all a 'break' but ended up stressing everyone out 100x more than if they had just given us a normal assignment.

And, I guess in some ways, it was easier. He didn't dock us for poor layouts or if every shape was perfect or not (he left it pretty open ended anyway), but for the past month, everyone has been cursing "Ray guns..........." under their breath.

Most everyone had to redo it multiple times and it eventually got to the point where our professor just kind of apologized for assigning it in the first place.

As for me, I had to redo it once. My professor gave me a very low B, which came out as a C because I turned it in late.

 Assignment-wise, we had to design 5 'silly' ray guns. We'd get a failed grade if they actually looked threatening (school policy?? there's some no 'gun in art and games rule'), and they should follow a theme.

Shadow Plotting

We had to learn how to plot shadows a few weeks ago for Art 101. 

Master Copy WIP

Work in progress...

Art Theory and Lines

The picture quality's not the best, but for this assignment, we had to come up with some illustrations to cover so many variables (proportion, density, quality, quantity, etc) with only one design element (line, point, shape, color, etc).

It's for Art Theory, which is still a really, really weird class. The teacher doesn't give us much direction on our assignments but also grades very harshly.

Got a B-, regardless. 

More on Anita

T-Shirts

For Art 101, we had to draw a wadded up t-shirt 25 different times. We're on week 10, and we only really just got our first 'drawing' assignment, and it's really exciting.

I got a B on them, which is very, very good. Most of my classmates got a C-/F on theirs, so I feel like that says a lot about my improvement.

An Animation Crash Test