Banana Bottom

Yes, I missed Tuesday. But missing a day is way more excusable than closing your blog. Seriously. What is that?

I'm in the animation lab (again...that's where I spend all my time these days) waiting for my robot to render. It takes about 5 seconds per frame to render. My snowman, all two seconds of it, was 48 frames...24 frames per viewing second. The robot is 300 frames. Yeah. 25 minutes, minimum of rendering. That doesn't account for the fact that my robot is royally fucked up. I really hope this renders right the first time.

I like animation, though. It's like a big puzzle, and I'm into puzzles. Plus, my teacher's amazing. He's so funny--his jokes are awesome. My favorite quote so far occurred today though..."you have to put a bottom on your banana or your fruit will fall out."

Think about it. It's true.

100 frames left to render. Whew.

The next project is a still picture, though, and that's fun. It'll be a targa file, which shouldn't excite me as much as it does. I've always wanted to have a reason to make a targa file.

I'm parked illegally. Just throwing that out there.

I have two midterms next week, which amounts to eighteen chapters of reading I need to do this weekend. Plus CMF finals. Plus Stillpoint submissions sorting. Plus a review session. Busy busy busy.

75 left. I need a good recipe for roasting chickpeas. I burned the last batch.

Ok. I'll quit being so spacy. Sorry I forgot Tuesday. House was on. I got distracted.