Animation again, schedule blues

I finished animating the remainder of line six of the poem, and will soon be starting on the chorus (most likely after dinner tonight).  Animation progress so far can be seen here, with tinny audio (the nice audio is here, and I hope to stream it in the final).  I’m looking forward to having parts of the upcoming poem already animated (particularly the rotoscoped rotating self among planets and the white-on-black rotoscoped silhouette).

In other news, I registered for classes this morning.  So far I’m taking 5 credits, but I need to find 7 more in order to keep various scholarships and financial aid (contingent on me being enrolled in 12 credit hours worth of classes).  Urgh.  I may have to find out if I should take some credits of HC Thesis or something, so that I have work time for it (similar to what I’m doing this term).  I’m trying to decide whether to take a 10am class, on the grounds that it will force me to get up and be productive, or a 2pm class on the grounds that I’ll never risk missing a class due to not sleeping well and the ensuing migraine.  It’s “chance and determinism in the physical world” versus “global climate change,” and on a purely topical basis, the former wins hands down.

UPDATE: Went back and fixed/fiddled with some things that had been bothering me, mainly the second line’s head-turn roto and the fourth line’s eye.  Finalized a few transitions, sorted all the library items in flash into folders (yay! I can find things without looking through the whole list now!), and made way for the chorus.  Animation progress is here.  And now to bed!

Rotoscoping yet again (round four, is it?)

Decided this morning that I didn’t like the pics I thought I’d use last night (on the bright side, I do like some of the others, and shsll use them in new ways).  Shot some footage (strangely enough, iMovie HD 6.0.3 only finds my built-in iSight lens after I plug in my camcorder, import from it, and unplug it) and started in with the brush linework in Flash (God how I love my tablet!).  I am almost finished; there remain the persnickety eyes and the (gloriously) largely sessile shirt and jeans, the latter of which just needs minor tweaking.  I think I shall fiddle with lighting through my coloring—leaning towards monochrome (grayscale?).  Here’s the working file.

In other news, I woke up at 6:30am and couldn’t fall back asleep, but, feeling quite decent at 7:00, I decided to get up and to work.  Later, thinking it must be 4pm or so, I discovered it was half past noon.  Wow.  Four hours is a long time when spent awake.  I love ModPodge and the tutorial for making a matchbox I found on Etsy (which site I also love; I’m emilyrosestudios, btw).  And, as always, C.J.Cherryh is awesome, as Cyteen: The Betrayal proves yet again.

Going to bed as soon as I post this!