First Week Back at TAFE ~

So even though technically its the second week of tafe,
i was sick two of the three days from last week ~ so I'm counting this as my first proper week of tafe.

Lots has happened this week -

At the very start of this week, or end of last week i started a re-design of my second character in my short story.
And although she's not finished as an artwork, I'm happy with the over all idea of this sketch so i worked on my storyboard and animatic first. I plan to finish this drawing this week.

Expo talk has started ~ 

This year it's been decided that the adv. diploma will be mentoring the dip. students in what to do and what not to do for the expo. 

I've been put in charge of funding, budgeting and I'm helping out with making a webpage for the expo. 

I've already organised a 'profile page' word document for students to fill in, and we can then add that information onto the website. 

I've also had a VERY long conversation, via email, with Ashleigh (the leader of fund-raising in Diploma) about Fund-raising ~ and i'm glad to say that fund-raising is under-way!

Lastly, budgeting, I've asked every team to get an estimated amount of money they will need as well as, where they get that figure from (or rather, what they are planning to spend it on) 

I've organised an excel sheet for budgeting but i have yet to sit together with them and explain everything, i'm hoping to do that next week ~

This is an example of the spread sheets for the groups, the 'budget' is their estimated, or desired budget and 'Actual' is how much they actually get from fund-raising, the 'difference' is just so the group gets an idea of how much they have to cut back on.

And then, of course, the outgoings ~ or where that money is going ~

This is for an over-all view

This won't have any details in it like where each group is spending money etc.
This is simply to get an overall idea of what each group wants (i.e. budget),
how much they actually get from fund-raising (Actual)
and How much they need to cut back on (Difference)

as well as, how much we currently have in fund-raising, and any sponsorships.

Next is 3D ~

We're in our last semester of Animation and we're finally learning about rigging characters, character animation and how it all works ~

This is the standard mesh we were given, we were then shown how to add 'bones' in maya 

This next one's about orientating all the joints to face the correct way ~

 Next is about my short story,
I can't remember if i mentioned this in a previous blog or not,
but I wasn't happy with my storyboard that i did last semester, because it was rushed.
So i took the time to go back and do it again.

I've only added two of the pages ~

I then took that and turned it into an animatic ~
I've decided that i will still call it "Eye of Gyron" but i will add a sub-title something along the lines of "First Encounter"

the other thing i've done this week is a walk cycle ~
Yep a walk cycle, but this was done in Maya ~ the first bit of character animation in Maya ~ I must admit, it was pretty exciting haha ~ and a lot of fun

So yeah,
I feel like i could have done more, but overall I'm happy with what i've accomplished this week, because i feel it brings everything up a notch

so until next time ~
all the best
~ Ariane