Yritin tänään puhdistaa keittiölavuaarin hajulukkoa kun tuolta lavuaarin pohjalta nousee semmonen käyneen haju. Epäilemättä on jäänyt hiivaa sinne hajulukkoon.

Netissä ohjeet neuvoi pistämään ämpärin alle ettei tuu kuravedet lattialle. Vaan eihän tonne mitään ämpäriä mahdu niiden putkien väliin, pistin siis tyhjän HK-potku -astian kun sen verran oli sentään tilaa ja se nyt kuitenkin vetää muutaman desin.

Tuli kuravedet käsille saatana kun heti kun lukon tulpan alta pääsi vettä tulemaan niin se tuskui sieltä sivusuuntaan eikä suinkaan alas. No oli edes kumihanskat kädessä.

En vaan nynnynä saanut tungettua sormiani sinne putkeen edes kumihanskoissa kun en edes näe mitä teen. Hiukan jotaki mönjää sain irrotettua siitä ihan suuaukon luota..

Pistin sit tulpan takasin ja viemärinpuhdistajaa lavuaariin siinä toivossa että kun sieltä lukosta nyt oli vedet poissa niin se aine hetken lilluisi siellä ja ehkä tuhoaisi sen hajunlähteen.

Jos ei tuolla haju lopu niin en tiedä mitä seuraavaksi teen. Puhelin tassuun ja itkemään isille? Vai ostanko jonkun pulloharjan ihan vaan että saan rassata ton putken ja heittää harjan sit roskiin?

Super Mario, tule apuun. :(

I'm still running a fever, but the worst of this passed during the weekend.

Normally I wouldn't mind having a reason to spend a few more days home wrapped up in blankets after the most unpleasant symptoms have gone, but I've got a project deadline to meet and I need to be in class to do it. And that deadline? Is this Thursday.

Goddd I need to start posting about fandom or making artdumps or something again. My journal has become all about boring real life lately.


SO, SPEAKING OF FANDOM:

WHITEBEARD: AWESOME Y/Y?

TEKKEN 6 CINEMATICS: POORLY ANIMATED IN COMPARISON TO TEKKEN 5 Y/N?

HIGH OVERLORD VAROK SAURFANG: EVEN MORE AWESOME IN ICECROWN? PLEASE SAY YES, BLIZZARD.

Fuck yeah fever! I also have a cough.

I don't feel very sick though.

Let's see how this develops.

ETA: AHAHAHA I try to get some sleep and it turns out they've arranged a fireworks show practically next door. It started off sounding rather like a thunderstorm and escalated into BIG BOOMS that sound almost like we're being bombed. ♥ I love this town.

Oh well. I'm not that sleepy anyway.

My youngest sister is ill and I'm worried.

Ok, I sort of need to "bleach" my hair for a day. Is there a way to achieve the impression of blonde/white/gray hair without actually bleaching it?

Today I was told I sort of resemble Velma from Scooby-Doo.

Considering my glasses, bobbed haircut and round face, I can't really argue.

I still remember how to knit! Go me!

So my classmates are having a get-together tonight. I don't know whether to go or not.

On one hand, these are nice people. I like them, we all get along and everything.

( On the other hand, I know that the vast majority of them are going to take this opportunity to get roaring drunk )

tl;dr: I'm a stuck up party-pooper

Yesterday I turned 21. Whopee. No parties this year, because I'm not into that whole "going out to drink" thing and my apartment can't accommodate more than three or four people at once. Not that I mind. My cousin and her dog visited me, though, which was cool.

Also, my animation classes are over. Okay, so there's still tomorrow, but we're just showing our animations, not actually working on anything anymore. The stop motion animation turned out alright, the drawn one... well, we only had little less than two weeks to learn a new program and make a whole animation with some kind of plot with it, so obviously no one's animations were going to be Disney level. Or even Cartoon Network level. I'm still kind of embarrassed by the corners I had to cut and some frankly crappy bits that I just didn't have time to do any better. I think I still stand a very good chance at getting top marks for the course, though.

Oh, yes, about the program we used for the drawn animations. It's called Toon Boom, and apparently a lot of professional animators use it (well, likely a more professional version, but still). I think Family Guy is animated using Toon Boom. In any case, a lot of tools that are unique to the program and a lot of amusing quirks that make working so much harder when you're only learning the program. I can see how it makes things easier once you know how to work it, though.

Anyway, I'll probably upload my animations to YouTube and post them at some point. If I can get over my embarrasment of not rivaling professionals.

Avast, me hearties! In honor of the International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Telltale Games be offerin' a free chapter of Tales of Monkey Island!

Aye, I be already downloadin' me free chapter, n' I be plannin' to spend this day playin' it. I d'not know if any of ye on me list of mateys be fans of Monkey Island, but I figured I'd give all of ye a heads up just in case. Seein' as how I pretty much suck at talking like a pirate, it be the least I can do on this fine day.


Ps. It be Yumichika's birthday as well? Mayhap the lad was a salty sea dog in life.

You have done it, friendslist. I'm reading Axis Powers Hetalia.

Sheer laziness helped me resist for quite a while, but in the end it was futile.

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY NOW.

Oh man, my building's sauna sure is luxurious. And since it's hardly ever reserved, I can shower there instead of my apartment, which means my showering won't be showing upon my water bill. Score!

Phew, so today I spent several hours in a dark, stuffy room shooting my animation.
I should've worn a T-shirt to school today. That room was like a sauna.

So I made a pit stop at Arnolds on the way home. I have no clue how their smoothies feel cooler than ice cream, but they're exactly the right size and temperature to cool me down when I feel I'm close to boiling point.


So anyway, about the animation class.

Last Thursday, we were introduced to a progam called iStop Motion. As you might've quessed, the program is for Mac.
What you do is you hook a digital video camera up to the mac via Firewire. Then you point the camera at the scene you're shooting. You can see what the camera sees on the computer screen and taking pictures is as simple as hitting a key on the keyboard. You need not touch the camera at all once it's positioned, which is ideal, because you wouldn't want the camera to move a fraction of an inch during the shooting.

Most people in my class decided to do their stop motion animation with 3D figurines made out of modelling clay and metal wire. I made mine with 2D characters made of pieces of paper. I moved the pieces in front of the camera with the aid of a pair of tweezers. It's tough work to keep the pieces you don't want to move from moving while simultaneously remembering to move everything you want to be moving. I had to reshoot a handful of frames because I hadn't moved a hand here or a jaw there.
I got the whole of the shooting done today, tough, and I'm moving to editing tomorrow.

So that's the first week of animation now. This week was pure theory.

We watched some documentaries on the history of moving pictures. Turns out animation was actually around before live action moving pictures. I was aware of the existence of magic lanterns, but I'd never thought of them as a form of animation, which they are.

We reviewed filmmaking basics, such as the 180 degree rule (there's an invisible line between two interacting characters. You may only shoot the scene from one side of that line. The camera may only occupy the other side if it is moved there during a tracking shot), shot composition, lighting, and transitions.

Then we watched some animated shorts. Steamboat Willie and some Wallace and Gromit, plus a few short cartoons geared towards really small kids.

As we left the class today, we were tasked with writing storyboards for our own animations. We will all be making two: One in stop motion and the other in 2D drawing.

Back to school today. Class starts in 34 minutes and I'm psyched. Because the first two months are ~*~animation~*~! *sparkles*

Lol, Swedish royalty within like 200m of my apartment in about 10 minutes.

I wonder if I should put some shoes on and go check 'em out. I'm not that interested in seeing them, but I guess it'd be an experience.


Update: Aaaand I'm back, as of 17:11. Yeah, I went. Truth be told, I think these sort of things are just a big waste of time for eveyryone involved. It's not like anyone is better for having stood in a crowded mall for ten minutes looking at royalty or being royalty and waving at the peasants down below. But then, I went to see them too, so who am I to talk?

I guess some people feel enrichened to be able to say that they've breathed the same air as someone famous. Well, whatever floats their boats.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411951/

J-Jackie Chan as Lei Wulong? That-that can't possibly be right, can it? How could a video-game movie manage something like that?
I don't even know where the Tekken fandom resides these days, so I've no clue where to look for confirmation.

I saw Prince of Egypt for the first time today, and it was amazing. Great animation, poweful scenes and amazing everything.

And I was reminded again that I want to watch every high-quality animated movie ever made. BECAUSE I'M JUST THAT INTO ANIMATION. I don't know what I'm going to do if I don't get into that school next year.
Okay, no, I know I'll be headed for the Kajak Game Development Lab, because I need to specialize, and if I can't do animation, I'll do video games, dammit!

Maintenance, plz to be ending nao. I want my Curious Oracle Hatchling and I have some raptors to hunt and mounts to buy for like every single one of my characters.

ETA: Nice of you to be online, realms, but I've been trying to log in for thirty minutes now. That's not fun, either.

It's probably just as well that I don't really have anything better to do.

Just saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Frankly, it was rubbish.

I mean, they cut out everything that explained anything. Clearly, they're not concerned about making a coherent movie anymore. They just want to throw fancy special effects at us and collect our money.

I'm not complaining about removal of scenes I liked, mind you (although that hapened too, a bit). I'm complaining about the fact that had I not read the book, I wouldn't have understood half it.

Sure, the source material isn't Dostoyevsky, but if you're going to put so much money into making a movie, you could at least make sure it comes out halfway decent.

That being said, I think Alan Rickman and Helena Bonham Carter were both amazing in this movie. I'm sure Maggie Smith would've been, too, had she been on screen for more than half a second at a time.