Current mood:	tired
Current music:	'Wicked' soundtrack

I thought today was going to be terrible; in fact, I've spent most of the day in a relatively foul mood (I say 'relatively' because I'm usually quite personable, but today I just wanted to crawl under a rock and make snide remarks at oblivious passers-by). But, I'm feeling a bit better now.

I've just finished watching Dexter with mum (fast becoming a sunday night ritual - I don't exactly know why, but WOAH I LOVE THIS SHOW), and am about to do a bit more college work before heading off to bed; work again tomorrow. Between my two current jobs, I'm working 5 days this coming week. Smart, Rhianna, smart. There was a new pharmacy assistant at work today, and I think she already knows more than I do. Crumbs - I'm forever doomed to be the workplace numbskull in this job. Everyone's saying I should quit my pharmacy job now that I've got something else going, but I feel lousy abandoning them just after the shop has been refit and everything. I really do like the people there - I don't necessarily like the job that much, but it's not so bad.

Tomorrow night and tuesday are going to be my only real chances to get my assignment quota done before Friday, and I have a heck of a lot to do, so my apologies in advance to anyone who has to put up with my stressing - that means you too, Ray, sorry I'm not more entertaining when I'm like this :)

Anyway, here's some



Here's a few things I'm working on for college at the moment. Firstly, a few backgrounds for my short film:


Working 2D backgrounds in with 3D characters is going to be an interesting one, but it does save me a lot of modeling annoying environments, which is a real plus! I'm getting slightly better at background design - it's never been a strong point for me, but I reckon I could even grow to like it one day.


The same setting, obviously at night. The clouds are going to be animated and full of cool swirling creature things. If I ever finish this, that is.


3D elements with an as-yet-unfinished background matte painting. This one looks a lot less Flash-y than the preceding two, whcih probably means I'll have to texture the others up a bit for style consistency. This is Walter's school classroom (and the crappy bookcase is just there temporarily as a guide).


And last, my matte-painting Steampunk Aquarium project in progress. A lot of this stuff is either temporary photos that will be replaced with painting, or scribbly experimentation, but I think I'm liking how it's going so far, anyway. The little tank module things are meant to resemble antique diving helmets - boy do I want one of those! In fact, I think I've decided that, when college is over, I'm going to devote a significant portion of my then-free-time to adopting a more steampunk lifestyle (while I'm still young enough to carry it off :D). Bring on the goggles!

Also, my good friend recorded a great voice that I've just finished cutting together for my character animation module; now I officially have 1.5 minutes of Rincewind dialogue (and an almost-complete 3D model of the afforementioned Wizzard) to look forward to animating. Woo! I'll post some progress pics on him when I next get the chance.



Argh! Bedtime! I don't like going to bed this early (i.e before midnight), but I don't like getting up at 5:30 either, so there has to be a compromise in there somewhere. More background work tomorrow, and a SoftImage/XSI demonstration on Wednesday! I really do love this job so far.