New Blogness...

In my quest to have art pay the bills, as it were, I've set up my very own blog. 

Granted, this is partially in response to attending a social networking workshop this evening... I've signed up with LinkedIn and removed all potentially dangerous photos from my facebook account.  Heh.  Just kiddn'.  There wasn't a lot up there to begin with, not like the chick who bashed her boss and her job in her status update only to be fired by a reply to said status update from her boss. 

Moral of the story: don't call your boss a moron in a place where he can read it.

I spent an hour shooting some more stop-motion work with my flat puppet... iStopMotion was giving me headaches.  It wouldn't show the live camera image, so the first half of it is done blind.  The second half went a bit better though, because for no apparent reason it started acting properly again.  I think that learning to write out a proper dope sheet is akin to writing out music.  You know what it's supposed to look/sound like when it's played properly, but getting it on paper is imagining it first.  I likely should have spent more than an hour working on it, but I also should have used one of the 2d animation rooms to shoot it, also.  Live and learn I suppose.  I have some more plans for that little monkey though, and I'll get to them before the term is over.

The next stop motion project I have to work on is to finish my 3d armature.  I'm going out this weekend to see if I can find a stuffed animal or three to cannibalize for his outside, now that the armature is almost finished.  I'm rubbish at sewing, so I may have to enlist the help of one or two of my wonderful family members... they really are the best.  We'll see, though.

In other news, my wonderful boyfriend and I are putting together an inspirational blog here, on our attempt to get to the San Diego Comic Con next year, have a booth, and have lots of stuff to sell.  My contributions so far are a couple of childrens books I epiphanized a couple of weeks ago (due to the fact I've become an auntie in the last month), a graphic novel based on a character I had when I was a kid, and another graphic novel about a character who is far too much like me to be safe.  No, no... I know what you're thinking!  It's not one of those 'Mary Sue' characters, or narcissistic visions of the author... it's a character I created a long time ago for a GURPS campaign and seem to be becoming.  It's bizarre, really.  I mean, it's funny when you create a character that's been in art school for, like, a decade... it's not so funny when it turns into reality.

(Okay, I haven't been in art school for a decade, but I did start college somewhere around 1997 and I don't have a degree to show for it yet.  I admit this only because I got sidetracked by marriage in the middle there; it's not because I lack conviction.)

Lastly... I got asked to join the honor society at school.  This is a big deal for me... I've never been in any kind of honor society before: my grades were terrible in grade school and high school.  Now that I'm studying something I've literally wanted to do since I was 3, I'm tenacious.