Scooby spooked!

This isn't anyway to go back to a normal schedule! I don't have much to say!
Well, mainly because I spent most of today not doing anything mostly because, once again, I'm cowering over the challenge of the 30 second animation (among other things).

I got up at 12:15 or so which is bad but not so much as the 1:15pm (!!) waking hour made last week. 7am to 8am was my aim but it didn't happen and most of my blame could probably go to Sophie and everyone getting back late from Becky's party up in Guildford. Actually, my blame is mainly towards Yannis and Georgia sexing it up next door. It's TMI, and they will likely kill me for bringing this up in a public place like this, but I swear on some occasions I woke up in the middle of the night to it. They are no where near as noisy or 'showy' as Nat was though.

Got up and had some tea, my hair was a mess. At 1:00pm I got out my camera to take some reference photography of my room for the animation. I had done Graphics GCSE before, but I got an F for it - found too hard. To the point though: I'm certainly no experienced person to perspective drawing and architectural design despite doing it frequently before, so for this animation I'm somewhat cheating the system and using my photographs as a reference to digitally paint from and over. I would LOVE to design my own scenes but for now I want to play things nice and safe.

Took various photos from different angles, with various lighting conditions (such as my sink light) and I even included myself in some of the quirkier perspectives to get a good grasp on the proportional basis. The outside hall way was included into the photos as well. Of course, I'm doing this with the assumption that I'll be including backgrounds. Given however that I need to actually practice actual movements with perspective use, it's a no-brainer that some actual setting is needed for justification. The problem is that I'd like to take my pencil tests further and draw them into the computer. If I do that though, all sorts of other cool possibilities open up!

On Facebook, Nikki brought up that Taekwon-do was on at 6pm tonight. She of course wanted us to go, or else threatened to beat us up with her mastery of the self-defense arts! I wanted to go but I felt too bummed out and afraid (of the animation) to do anything. At some point before 6pm I heard Sophie bring up Taekwon-do, and I rushed out to ask her about it - I assumed she was going. Nope! One of the chaps next door in 96 was, and Sophie merely found the idea of practising Taekwon-do in casual clothing absurd. I do to, but I don't feel in the position to chip out money for the gi/uniform though.
Yannis, having done this kind of fighting style at young age, tempted Sophie to go. "No way man! *kung-fu stances/noises* - isn't my kind of thing! I'm contemporary! *ballet pose*" She disappeared upstairs.

Later on I felt hungry and felt it was time to eat. I wanted to get my other blog entries written up before then, but once again procrastination was making its rounds. Sophie had her friend Kalem up - the two along with Jamie and Yannis were up in the kitchen. Decided to have a sausage and onion casserole with potato dolphena-something. Me and Sophie took a while to eat our dinner as we were so engaged into talking. Of the things we discussed, I brought up Yannis and Georgia's pick 'n mixing at night. (keeping me up and all) Fearful that they might of not known this (and thus stir up bigger talks) I gulped a little - but Sophie was aware for what seemed as long as I had. In fact, she and Rob would be frequently bringing up their sexsation. We all know however that Yannis and Georgia seem to be believing that we are unaware of this - unless it's just that they do not want to bring it up.