OH MY GOD!! These two dogs are getting on great but i feel like they are children, telling them off every minute. My vocab since last night has been ROXANNE LEAVE JOS ALONE...and LIE DOWN! - the joys! Its funny cuz one minute they are best friends and then the next roxy just wants to play and jos wants no part of it, she's like the annoying younger sister.

Anywho, here are some pics from pictoplasma...

Its a dog, ooo la la! The pictoplasma screening/lecture pictures were taken by Janey...thought there wasnt any point in me taking them if we were sitting together and she kindly let me use them :)

Pictoplasma!

Back from Berlin and feeling 50% human again! The festival was great and really enjoyed the talks (and maybe a beer or two). Even though the trip was great, the ending wasnt, I have been ill for two days now! I thought the screenings were really good, especially the music video ones. I didnt do any of the workshops but watched the different stages of the felt monster and saw some of the lino cutting too. After being to this festival it has drummed it in my head a bit more that simple is better. The amount of times I keep trying to simple my ideas it just doesn't seem to work and then i get behind and then change the idea 100 times. Its good being back to normal life, my dog missed me which was great but now she is trying her luck and being a douche. So far today she has eaten her bed, been sick and keeps coughing up bits of her bed AND like always hitting my laptop so I cant go on it. And to add to that i'm babysitting my cousins dog tonight so i'm going to be up all night because he cries when he thinks he's alone, the size of him you would think he would be tough but nope he loves his cuddles. This is Jos

Compared to Roxy. Will upload pics of the talks etc once i get them uploaded.

a picture that summed up our trip...

So my last update i went on about how much of the work i was going to get done but guess what happend...yup thats right..Linsey got sick again!! I swear i have been more ill than healthy this school year! If its not my eyes, its my headaches, if its not the headaches its my stomach, if its not that its my back!! Argh. I was asleep pretty much all day yesterday :( grr. I am hoping i am ok for berlin, been to the chemist and stocked up on meds!! I am looking forward to the trip but i dont like planes so i am a bit nervous about that :/ and i've lost my ipod so i cant even be distracted boo hoo!! Well am trying to do some work today but my eyes and head are killing, we shall see what i get done :) Hope everyone is having/has a great Easter

Things that have inspired me recently

These are a few videos i've seen recently that have made me think - wow how do they do that!! haha, sad yes but its true. I think the beginning of this is amazing, how she is built like a robot. The effects are really good and I am going to look into how they did this and what they used to create the effect, i likes it! For this video it was the greyhounds that got me, again, going to see if i can find out what they used to make them. It looks like it can be done in Cinema 4d ooooooolala. I also like the big where they have the digital headphones and controlling the dogs with the digital computer. For this video its the backgrounds,i like the movements and designs.

Hello campers! Well after a weekend of dealing with the garden and eating way too much its back to the grind stone. I have a check list as long as my arm for things to do before year end! This week I plan on getting all of my PPD stuff done, I have access to a printer tomorrow so lets see if I can get it all done and organised by tomorrow so its printed and done! In regards to my animation I am happy with the first two scenes so I just need to do the final render of them, thats 27 seconds done. I know it doesnt seem like much but I am picky and go over things way too much. I keep changing my mind with how i'm going to put the scenes together but I am happy with how I am getting on. I need to sort out dancing splines, fun? sure :/ I then need to sort the lights for the hallway, the artwork for the hallway and the floor. For the bathroom I need to do lighting, and add towels and bottles of shampoo :) Then its ANIMATE SAUSAGE MAN TIME! In addition to this my mam owns a wedding business and asked if I could help her make a website and create some 3d designs for her to show people the rooms and decorations she has to offer. I am looking forward to doing that because I will have the images of all the vases/flowers/ribbons etc that she has and plus i've seen all her materials and the venues (seeing as how she did both my sisters weddings :D)so that will help in making me make sure its exact and looks real. I have been looking for companies to do work experience today as well, I found a few and the ones for 3d interiors look amazing, its hard to believe how real they make the images look, lighting is great! The dog has attacked me once so far today because i've been on the laptop, i've distracted her with food so its onto coffee number two and let the work commence!! Enjoy your week everyone and see some of ya bright and early next tuesday!!!

I have changed the patio a little bit....We are now thinking of giving the pups a bit more space so I will be adding a fence just the edge of the grassy area, a metal one I think so we can still see the puppies and in case they decide they like the taste of wood and start to chew!! I am thinking thats going to take some time to create, using splines and what not so I wont be starting that tonight, I just changed the decking for now.

Speaking of splines, that is what I will be working on next for my animationioneh! I need to create some moving colourful lines and shapes so will be trying different splines out. woooo, fun you say, of course :o

I added the gates last night and tried out the lights today. The reason behind the layout is because we plan on breeding the lovely little Roxanne

Not the best photo but atleast you can see what she looks like, she attacked me because she doesnt like me being on the laptop. She wants all my attention, she jumped on me and this was the half second she stopped trying to lick me!! I also took pictures of our actual back garden so you can see what it looks like and to see what i'm working with :) Will upload those when I find the camera lead.