Visuals

40 Opposties

hate
uncultured
starvation
homeless
loneliness
enemies
satan
secular
sin
impatient
cruel
lust
free living
no morals
bad decisions
irresponsible
sloth
reason
playing dumb
unfinished
distracted
weak
influenced
heartless
weakness
snake belly
lost
make stagnant
kill
lifeless
soulless
quick
still
not affected
emotionless
expressionless
making a point
unthoughtful
death
darkness

40 similarly related words/ideas

love
culture
food
home
family
friends
God
church
virtues
patience
kindness
chastity
values
morals
decisions
responsibility
work ethic
trust
run smart
finish strong
focus
endurance
will power
heart
strength
eagles wings
faith
animate
evoke life
character
tiny soul
anticipation
action
reaction
emotion
expression
experience
thought
life
light

project 2

I love working in after effects and I am so glad that I got a bunch of work done on the project Thursday. I like to be ahead of the game rather waiting till the last minute.
I'm glad that I got to become familiar with after effects somewhat during my internship over the summer, so I felt a little more comfortable doing a project in something I've never used before.
I'm actually looking forward to the next project because I'm really enjoying this program. There are so many things that I want to try and so much I want to learn.
Looking at my project this morning, I notice that there are some things that I need to fix.

There are issues in my RAM preview that are not happening in my actual project file....

Well, after working on the file and rendering again, the problem was resolved. :)

Project 1

Whoo hooo!!!
Good morning!
Anybody sleep? lol
Well, I'm anxious to see what everyone has to bring to the table after many of us pulling off an all-nighter.
Wish I didn't have to be up all night but I gotta do what I gotta do to get the work done.
It the most time just looking up the images I needed. If I ever get the chance to take some pics that I can use while I'm back home, I surely will take that advantage.
Sometimes limitations help in a weird way. They can take you in a different direction I may not have gone concerning the work for my project.
I really want to expand my collection of assets.
Especially some more environment photos.
ahhhh. this is exciting. I like what I have so far.
I wasn't planning to have a human character in my work. I had created a foreground and a background in my environment but I felt like the middle ground needed to be occupied. So, I create a character from a man in one of my source images. So, I add him to my scene and realized that if I made a few changes to his appearance, then he'd look like my cousin. I made those changes and now I have a cartoon version of my cousin. I like the b&w sketchy aesthetic mixed in with my environment composed of photo images.
Now, the paper doll po'boy design is a piece I did a long while back. I need to reorganize that photoshop document though because I need to group each part as its own layer. I should have that done already but I don't really need it quite yet.
I'm super bucked up about this project!! I feel that I'm prepared. That's my goal is to always be prepared.

The Rest of the Experience

What is my most joyful image?
Jazzland, the giant king cake at the Krewe of Slidellians parade, the pig roast, Christmas eve, cross-country, the digging a big hole at the beach, winning state, an unexpected kiss at work, the Saints winning the Super Bowl, going way back to my childhood... playing toys with my sister, creating characters and stories. Exploring my back yard which was mostly woods and playing in the river, building stick huts. playing on the play set my daddy built. swinging on the tire swing and hanging on the zip line. Bike rides through the neighborhood with the family. fishing, boat rides, crabbing, shrimping. Eating the fish you catch. mama's cooking.

What are my favorite games? Boggle, Farkle, dig-dug, pole position, 20 questions, Balderdash, Icy Tower, Bosconian, Texas Hold'em, Galaga
Games I hate:
Life, Sims: they get me nervous, worried and anxious
World of Warcraft: reminds me of ex bf who had no life and he would ignore me as he played it often.

Solo play with objects:
Hacky sack, finger skateboard, skating, longboarding, skimboarding
I want to improve my skill level during each of those activities.

When I play, I want to impress myself as well as others. i want to build up on my skills. I want to be the best. Nothing else matters at the moment. I become hyper focused.

Assignment Experience

Leonard came over Sunday night so that we could exercise part D of our homework assignment. I was already bored out of my mind so I was at least thankful for some company. All we did at first was sit in the living room and watched "Disturbia" on TV and we laughed at the movie's "cheesiness." Then Len recommended that we build something so I took out my box of Super Sculpey so that we could do something creative socially. At first I was in no mood for this. I didn't feel like creating anything at all. I was so bored and lazy at the moment. I was just not "feeling it." After a while though, I start sculpting and I was fine after that. I wonder if it was Len being there also sculpting that made me kind of not so keen to sculpting, but after I saw what he was making I knew I had game so I took this challenge head on because I have skills when it come to Super Sculpey. So I make a sculpture of this pig I had animated over the summer for freelance. It came out pretty good. Len made the head of a demon Chihuahua. Len has his own unique aesthetic. I like it. You can tell among many drawings with one is Len's. So I decide to make some tacos to continue this "social play" and I know I'd have more than enough food, and I knew Len and my roommates would like a good meal. So I start to thaw out the ground beef and we keep watching TV. We start watching a documentary about dinosaurs on the Discovery Channel. It was interesting. We would comment on the animation and just chit chat. Then I wanted to watch the Land Before Time since that movie rocks and I was now in a dinosaur mood.
So I pop in the movie and we watch it as I start cooking the taco meat in the kitchen. For the sake of getting in touch with our "inner child." I had found Land Before Time Burger King toys at the thrift store the day before ironically enough. I like to collect things and toys and figurines are something I collect so I took those out and we played around with those for a bit. Each toy did something different. One walked, one shook, one flipped, and one would roll. So those were entertaining and fun and relaxing. And these were good-looking, well-made toys. Way better than the crap that is made these days. It has been forever since I've played with toys beside the finger skate board on my desk when I'm bored....
Anyway, I continue to cook the tacos and I serve them up to Len and my room
mates and we all enjoyed them. I love cooking then sharing what I make with others. I even made dessert.
After eating, me and Len chilled in the living room and watched "UP." That is such a beautiful movie. It is perfect. It's animated and it's a wonderful and touching love story. A good friend of mine back home and I love its musical score. I just fall in love with that music. Just about at the end of that movie that friend called and my "social play" with Leonard was over.
oddly enough after getting in touch with my inner child, i start questioning the meaning of love. You can't watch Up and not think about that but love is not a childish thing. Since I'm Catholic I go to the Bible and look up 1 Corinthians chapter 13. It Says Love is patient love is kind.....
and it lists everything that it isn't. "it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in truth."
I figure that love is not a selfish thing. Children tend to be selfish. Love should not be mistaken as a feeling as it is commonly portrayed. It is not something derived out of self pleasure. Love is a mature thing.

I don't know if my topic of focus should be love because it's too broad of a subject. It is a worn out topic, but we'll see what happens. We'll see what comes out of all of this.