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Project 2 - My site is coming along, but I'm having a difficult time finding the correct code for what I want to do.

I have a preloader going to frame 2 when it's finished, then in frame 2 I have a SWF loaded into a MovieClip. What I want to happen is for it to go to frame 3 only after the SWF is finished - I'm looking at the OnComplete function and similar... I'm going to have to keep looking, considering that my only research occurred at 2am last night.

I ended up not going to bed till 3, with an 8am class, and as you can see by the timestamp - I made it to class :-) Of course, the class is Intro to 3D Animation. The Professor is doing critiques right now so I'm making myself busy.

I downloaded the student trial version of Maya 2010 (the version we use on campus), so I'm most comfortable working in it at home. Especially with my precious Wacom Tablet.

ANYWAYS! The site is actually on my main domain now, so head over to http://www.brittanyklopfstein.com to see how it's progressing. Right now there really isn't a background and the fonts aren't embedded, so it's getting close.

Project 1 -

She kind of does something... weird... towards the end there as I'm trying to turn her. I can't figure out how to fix it without completely restarting, but I don't have that kind of time - which makes me upset since I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my work. I'm my own worst critique, and it's exhausting.

JOB SEARCH

I remember when I was in high school - my parents told me that someday I would need to "sell myself" to get a job. In my teenitis I promptly replied with, "I'm never going to sell myself, if they don't want me then that's their problem."

Having said that, I can often recognize a sense of ego in many of my job applications.

I'm a soon-to-be graduate of Media Informatics, a soon-to-be wife, and a soon-to-be-not-living-at-my-parents-house-working-individual. I would like a job. I want to work, and I want to work hard. I'm so passionate about what I do, I really am. Why in the world would I feel it necessary to have an outlet to write out everything I'm doing? I'm excited about it!

It doesn't seem, though, like I am in a position where I can write on an application, "Hey, you NEED me". But I'm here to make a difference, to keep learning for the rest of my life so that I can always be there to teach others. I want my clients to feel like they got lucky when they found me - and that I'm worth the cost.

I have my "dream jobs", don't get me wrong. However, I know where ever I am - so long as it is a creative-encouraging atmosphere and fun people work there - that I'll be perfectly at home. Travis may not see me as much. Even now I get so caught up in my own projects that I lose sleep.

We watched the Pixar movie last night - all about the history of the company. Let me tell you, I would shine their shoes if it meant I could work there. Having any part of their creative process and products would just be fantastic.

A Long Weekend Ahead...

Project 4 - One word: http://muellerfilm.com/

almost done :)

Project 7 - it seems as though I'm the only one that likes the logo, go figure. Apparently my car doesn't look like a car at all. And if I'm lucky enough to talk to someone who does see a car, it's usually a bus or a hearse. *sigh*

Project 1 - I stayed up for a good 4 hours last night creating "cloths", just to have the Spline IK handle to basically fall apart. So I'm currently trying to bind my new "skin" to a set of bones that work from another file. I got it to work last night, but then I started messing with the Paint Weights and it totally crashed. But at least I have the hard part figured out, I think. My environment is done too. It's only one room, but it's a lab and I really want it to look good. So that means I get to start animating and rendering this weekend. I forsee frustration, but that's okay.

Project 6 - I'm talking about the freelance jobs more than I thought I would when I started this blog. Anyways, for Danielle I made up a site http://brittanyklopfstein.com/carson/index.html . It uses some newer CSS and HTML, like there is a gradient in the background and the corners are rounded. Hopefully you can see it. I absolutely love it, even in it's simplicity. However, it's not exactly what she wants. If I remember correctly, she actually prefers a lot of different elements. I really just wanted to get her something to use though, but I guess we'll see what happens.

Other than that, I have a lot of things I'll be doing in the next couple of days. We have a big critique day on Monday and I want to have everything done besides my animation - which I need at least 10 seconds finished, but not the entire thing, luckily.

That means finishing up Project 2 & 3. My site and Skywind. My site is pretty much done besides needing a portfolio page, but Skywind needs some serious work.