Safe and well, just. I managed to get left behind by the coach in the middle of nowhere at a motorway service station, but apart from that I’m just dandy. I never knew coming home from uni could be such an adventure.
The term has ended, and Christmas is upon me. I finally got to unpack my Xbox 360 that I won in a competition a month ago. Luck has been upon me it seems ever since I left school 2 years ago.
Lately I’ve been in the mood for making myself a rich man, using the web design skills that have taken me 7 or so years of learning in my own time to acquire. I wonder if I really need to continue learning at uni, whether I should just jack it all in and concentrate on making it happen.
The stories of some of the richest men in recent history have inspired me, for better or worse…
- Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to pursue software development working out of a garage.
- Steve Jobs, founder of Apple computer and the man behind the iPod, dropped out of college after one semester.
- Shawn Fanning quit college at 19 to create a music download site called Napster. A year later it was worth £42 million.
Other dropouts of note include, but are not limited to:
- Richard Branson
- Michael Dell
- Henry Ford
I’ve got to wonder, am I doing the right thing?
Made lots of headway this weekend, good job as the deadline is Monday. Since the first scene the next few were a doddle, as everything was set up the way I needed it.
Young Child’s Room
Teenager’s Room
Broken Pig Glued Together
In The Attic
Next came the death of piggy, boxed away and all alone in scene 5. This was a little trickier because I had to build a whole new environment for it.
The lighting was very important on this one, I built the set with a fake door which blocks the light and will be used to simulate the light of the door opening in the animation.
Added props, boxes, suitcases, you name it.
With the basic concept for the short story down, it’s time to start padding out the scenes. With each cut you will see the environment and the piggy bank changing, from the child’s early years to adulthood.
- Scene 1:
Begins in a small baby boy’s room, with a cot and rotating mobile. The camera focusses on the piggy bank, wrapped in a bow as a gift to the new born child.
- Scene 2:
Cot has changed to a small bed, and other props appear. A hand extends out to put coins in the piggy bank. This represents the young child caring for the object.
- Scene 3:
The room has changed to a teenagers, and loud music is playing in the background. The bass from this begins to shake the piggy bank off the table, when it falls and smashes on the ground
- Scene 4:
2 hours later. Same scene as before, just with the smashed object glued together, looking brittle and worn
- Scene 5:
The piggy bank has been neglected and put away in a box, left in the dark surrounded by clutter.
- Scene 6:
Rebirth of the object. Brought back into the light in a new baby girls room, as a handed down gift.
I’ve decided on a name for the short, forgotten. But piggy is remembered in the end, so all is good.
This set of photos is an ingenious twist on the fish eye lens. The stitching together of anything up to 80 photos gives the illusion of planet like globes.
