Sebastian Might Die

So my cat, Sebastian, might have to be put down. When we got into California, we noticed he was limping and then the limp got bloody worse until he couldn't use his back legs entirely. We too him to the vet and he has two fractions on growth plates in both of his hip joint. Now, he has the have a surgery to get the balls in the joints and the growth plates out. If we don't, he'll forever be in pain and he'll develop severe arthritis which is why we'd put him down. The operation cost 1700 for each side. So, I'm hunting down more jobs so that I could get the money for him.

It sucks.
~R

Change of Venue

So I'm working on a custom website from scratch for all of this. It'll have my artwork (which I still have yet to show you) as well as the blog and videos and tons of other stuff. I hate having to depend on servers and stuff to make custom websites and stuff. i don't like having blogger's name in all of my stuff including the URL and the page and stuff so I'm going to do a website on my own and stuff. So just stay posted- that'll be coming soon.
~R

Arse Holes

So... today, this guy dropped by my flat. He was here for one of my flat mates who was doing basically an informal job interview and when they were done, the guy still had some time and I wanted to show the guy some stuff that I had done (it was an art interview.) I wanted some feed back and some tips on what I should work on. I didn't have my portfolio with me so I was just showing him some stuff out of my sketch notebook. The first thing that I noticed was off was that he just grabbed my sketchbook and started flipping through. This is a bit of a no-no in the art world because an artist's sketchbook is like their soul. It's a huge compliment if an artist lets you look in their sketchbook because it's basically their diary but with pictures. Every feeling and event that has shaped that person since they were old enough to pick up a drawing object is in that book (or another one, if they've gone through several.) Now this guy had been an art teacher for 45 years so I was kind of surprised when he just grabbed it and started flipping through with out me telling him if he could or not. He was either completely clueless and hadn't picked up anything over 45 years or he didn't care.

The next thing that irked me was that he told me I had to stop drawing anime. After this huge speech to my friend about how "people in art do the jobs because it makes them happy, not for money" he told me I had to stop drawing anime (completely) because it was childish and I would never get a job i it. He told me it wasn't doing anything for me. Now, I' mainly a cartoonist/ animator and a lot of what I do is anime. It doesn't only help me out there, but it helps me with head placements and stuff for realistic drawings. Basically, anime is what helps me figure out what I'm going to do for an actual drawing. Not to mention, I enjoy doing it! This was what really set me off.

He only complimented me once on a before sketch of a bust I'm doing. He really liked that. He said it was good because it showed I could think all the way around something, not just the face of it.

That was the only thing I got out of him.

Arse.

~R

Goin' ter werk.






BYE!!!

~R

A few hours later...

So a few hours after my last post and I haven't moved forward at all. There's been a lot less crashing which I am very happy with (I took my mate's laptop) but their laptop is a lot more high tech than mine and therefor I don't know how to work the applications like I know how to work the ones on my laptop. It's been taking a little while longer than I had hoped but mine wouldn't have worked whatsoever.

So far I've gotten all of the videos imported into the program and tried to figure out how to import videos but it didn't really work.. I'll have to figure out how to do that later. Anyways, there is a lot more stuff to edit than I thought there was and the person we recorded, when he was talking, he usually always had his head down. The good part about taping twice means that for all of the times his head was down, there was another time when his head was up. Now, I have to go through and cut out all of the head-down stuff and that's taking a while. Not to mention, the program is a little buggy and as a new user of a new version (it might as well just be a whole new program) it's basically sucking. If my laptop actually worked, This probably would've been done a while ago. Or if I had already known how to work this one.

My cats, Rukia and Sebastian, have decided they would join me for the night.

It's now 6 am, I haven't slept at all, and I have to go to work. I would appreciate getting ready some what slowly so I'm going to have to go now. Good bye and good morning!!!!

~R

Stress

So today I'm finally meeting up with the other people from work. I REALLY hope that we can get everything done.
~R

Life

So... Remember how I said I had that big project for my work due on the 4th? Well, my boss just decided to kick me out of the workplace and so now, when I had previously gotten in contact with 2 of the five other people I work with, I now have to get in contact with them again to chance to meeting place as well as get ahold of the other three. I really hope they check their emails.

It seems like this gif is coming up more and more often in my life...
~R

I IZ ARTIST

So, I'm sure that rarely anybody knew this but I have a job as an animator. Most of my time right now is spent in school but I also spend some time sketching and drawing and things. It's not a very high-paying , high-hours, serious job, but it's a job. At my job, I do more of a collective arts thing. I do video, animation, editing, photography, acting, dance, music (piano, percussion, french horn, etc.), and really anything. The things I do at my job are a lot like what I do at school. Anyways, my point is that I'm an artist and I was going to post some things on this blog that I've done but I haven't one that yet. I have full intention of doing that and making this more of an artsy blog as well. Right now, I don't have any of my work up on the computer but this is another one of the things that I promise to post sometime.

~R

The Mongol-chondria

So, separate from the work I'm doing at my job, I'm also working on another project for school. We have teams doing video, cartooning, costuming, scripting, music, acting, and research. For the project, we're taking an organelle and we're creating a political campaign for it to prove why it is the more needed of the organelles. We got the mitochondria (which we are comparing to a Mongol.) I'll show you some sketches I drew up later. It's coming along pretty awesomely and it's going to be really cool!!!! I can't wait for it to finally all come together. I'll keep you all posted on it as it evolves but right now there really isn't anything much besides some sketches I did.
~R

Interns

So right now I'm working on this huge project with a bunch of "interns." (Interns in this case just applies to people who are under me and have no idea what they are doing. Granted, I'm not high up in my workplace but I'm higher than them and they're super annoying.) It has to be in by Tuesday and all of the people working on it are idiots except for one of my friends, who is the only one (besides me) who isn't an "intern." Anyways, we were given an assignment which I can't really ell you much about but it's one of those things where you have to be absolutely creative in order for you to actually really achieve anything with it. My friend is the head of the whole thing and I'm the head of the animating/ creativeness force for this. I'm in charge of about three people and the entire group is about six people big. There's a lot of stuff to get done and we haven't even really started it. We've been planning and researching and drawing but we haven't started writing and recording yet really. Also, the intern in charge of the contacts LOST THE CONTACTS!!!! We're all on this big break right now but we have to keep working through it in order to get things done. The person in charge of them *ahem* (you know who you are) didn't contact anyone and I finally had to track her down through her sister and then had to help her gather all of the contacts back together again. I personally emailed everyone but NOBODY HAS EMAILED ME BACK YET!!!! It's all really unprofessional of them and there's going to be a big consequence if we can't all pull together and do this. I'm starting to leak my efforts into other departments but I'm afraid it isn't really working. I'm just hoping it all works out. I HATE INTERNS!!!!!!
~R

Exhausted

Ugh I'm so tired but I have so much to do!!!! I still have a ton of homework to do hat I haven't even started yet! This'll be a fun three last days of break.
~R