Wow, I've got a lot to catch up on o.0 The last weeks have been a little nuts!
I finished my Second Year of Uni, third Semester was Advanced Maya and an Essay and Presentation so that was a fun term of banging my head against a wall. Couldn't believe it though, my comp made it through months of button-bashing abuse to conk on me as soon as the term ended! bless he must have had enough, so for the first few weeks of the hols i was stuck with no internet - sorry about that guys.
We've got a new machine which also seems to have a vendetta against the modem but its behaving itself for now (me trying very hard not to jinx it.) But It's the weirdest feeling breaking up from uni for the holidays . . . with the deadlines you're constantly working, eating on the run, stress and sleepless nights and then all of a sudden its all handed in and its like . . . 'Oh' . . . Your mind's still in overdrive but you have nothing to do. It's like doing 120mph then hitting a brick wall, i can never get used to that.
Luckily i had a few side projects to keep me busy - me and Nif'
were invited to do animation and character design workshops with two schools in the North-East. The first was a 6th form Business induction project. The kids were asked to come up with a marketing campaign for a new healthy snack so we spent two days with them, showing them basic stop-motion and cutout animation and helping with setting up cameras and post-production editing. Most of the work they did themselves, we were really just there to supervise and help out where we could. They did an amazing job though and we were so pleased with how it went. The second was at a primary school with some year 6s doing basic character drawing and cutout animation. I must admit im not good with kids so it was a little scary but we had a good laugh and we got a great reaction off the class, so that was a big relief.
Back home for a weeks rest and then we were off again to the London Film and Comic Con - was anyone else there? For our final animation project we had to make a music video, but we also had to contact the musician of the song that we wanted to animate to to secure a temporary copyright of the song. Nif' and i had been in contact with Vic Mignogna since we met him at the London Expo in 2007 and we asked if we could use one of his songs. OMG he was so great, he couldn't help us enough. He had our own ideas about the video but we asked Vic about some things and we got some great feedback. We got it finished and Nif was kind enough to burn off a proper DVD of the music video. Vic was at the Comic con and we were able to hand over the DVD, which was so nerve-racking! i was terrified that he wouldn't like it but we got a great reaction from him so
for Vic!
The Comic Con was great though, we had such an amazing time – we got to talk to Spike Spencer about animation and voice acting which was so much fun, he’s a great laugh and he just couldn’t do enough to help us. I got to talk to Lee Townsend of Marvel fame, and a comic artist i wasn’t aware of called Sam Hart, who was just amazing. I got a beautiful sketch of Merlin from him from his new comic based on the King Arthur legends – seriously guys, check him out. I bought his Robin Hood book but haven’t had the chance to read it yet. Erm . . . i got my photo taken with a Xenomorph from Alien who was frickin’ TERRIFYING!!!! Dude, he stole my awesome new hat too! Had guys from Transformers, Star Trek, Star Wars, Red Dwarf bits of all sorts. It really was just an amazing weekend – only downside is now im knackered! Been dead to the world this week, but saving my energy cuz at the end of the July im off to Japan to spend a month with a family there so OMG its so exciting!
I’ll try and put up a new journal before i go but if i don’t reply its cuz im kinda not in the country anymore
Well i hope everyone’s doing okay, taking some well earned rest from school/uni/work and enjoying the sunshine – As i watch the water level slowly rise up around my house ¬¬ What? You think we get sunshine here in the North-East? ^_^ Lol.
But seriously everyone, have an absolutely fantastic summer and i hope to hear from you soon.
Take Care all!
Wendy
Back to Uni - YAAAAAAY!
The Journal should explain everything ^_^ I want to move some of my animation work off here and keep this as my own personal work but i might post a few pieces im particularly proud of up here. 
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We got to take a few days in Tokyo too which was amazing - its such a great city and we went to a manga/anime expo which was really informative about the industry so we learned a lot and had fun at the same time. 
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