KleeWyck

Ah I haven't logged into DA for a week or so, I'm sorry, I'll have to get back to replying to everyone who left comments.  I'll be a student volunteer at Siggraph and it starts tomorrow and I've been really nervous about it.  I get nervous over everything; I really need to gain some confidence in myself.

I've also been working on my 3D skills for the conference since there will be a job fair and lots of networking to be done.  I really want to work with modelling/texturing for videogames, but I know I'm nowhere near the level I need to be to get a job (even a junior level position).  I'm trying really hard though.  Also, I will be updating my blog with stuff that I won't be posting here (mainly because it's more like a sketch blog and I feel like I can just post wips and sketches and the occasional finalized art pieces).  Here's a melaniestride.blogspot.com/ to it if you're interested in seeing what stuff I do outside of DA.  I'm aiming to update it every few days if I'm not busy with... volunteering/homework.

Hi everyone, I apologize for a lack of updates.  I have been working on art to sell at mini-comi happening this saturday (July 23rd) at UBC.
For information on mini-comi, follow this minicomi.orangesanctuary.com/M… .

and I will be sharing a table.

Some of my friends are also going:

Follow this dl.dropbox.com/u/16774305/tabl… for a map of our table placements.

Please come by and say hi if you are planning on going.  8D

Hey everyone, it's been a while.  I apologize to anyone who has left comments in which I haven't responded.... I finished working on my 8 months long graduation animated film project last month and I needed a break.  From everything.  I was at a point where I stopped sleeping and eating altogether to finish this project and I think I caused a great deal of worry to everyone around me as to my health.  But I'm much better now, I'm actually getting a few hours of sleep every day now. 8D

Currently I've been working on some low-poly 3D models for a work experience opportunity,as well as attempt to work on a decent portfolio.

I've been following the new games at E3, I was looking forward to a bunch of them prior but I finally got to see some gameplay and trailers.  So excited about Skyrim, Dark Souls and AC Revelations.  I just preordered two of them today cause I'm such a nerd.  My greatest dream would be to work at a videogames company working in their 3D department.  

Skyrim is definitely my most wanted.  I loved oblivion, I always go back to it and find new abilities and locations, it always has something new for me and I've played many many hours of it.  I even bought it twice because I played my first disc so much that it cracked.

Dark Souls is a sequel to Demon's Souls which is a brutally hard (not so much anymore since I pretty much memorized everything from it now) dark fantasy medieval game.  I love this genre and the gameplay is fun but not for people who give up easily.  I love the satisfaction that you get from beating these crazy bosses especially YOU MANEATER boss (I hate his stupid 3D polygon face, I've had to retry beating him like 172318728163 times, I mean who makes a boss fight on a tiny ledge thing where you can fall to your death super easily while fighting 2 flying things that look like gargoyle lizard monkeys  that keep pouncing on you and making you fall to your death). YUP.  

And Assassin's Creed is Assassin's Creed  (POSSIBLE AC SPOILERS AHEAD).   I want to know what happens to Desmond. LOL.  The story is so crazy, but I just want to know how it will progress.  Also I'm curious because Ezio is old...  and in ac2 it was explained that you can only reexperience memories of a person in your past up until their dna (aka pregnancy/child birth) gets passed on to the next person (their child/mother) and that you can't experience their memories anymore.  So it's kind of weird to see Ezio as being old and playing as his old self because it means he hasn't passed on his dna and had a child yet.  Weird stuff. XD  Also that stuff with the "gods" and "Adam and Eve" and "Subject 16"is just... insane.   I want to know more.

Uploaded my grad film trailer to vimeo: vimeo.com/22325986


Let me know what you guys think.  I feel like if I had been given more time and ran into less errors/crashes/troubleshooting I would've done a better job.  Still trying to get it done though, the whole film is due in less than 5 days.  D8

So as many of you know, I've not been very active in art-making due to my 4th year final graduating film.  And like a fool, I went with making a 3d animated short... with very little knowledge on the whole 3d thing.  It's been a tremendous learning experience, and it has definitely whetted my appetite to learn more about 3d.  Unfortunately my film is lacking in skill and whatnot, but I try.  I really do.  3ds max doesn't like me, and I have crashed my computer more times than I can count, and watched my ram go up to 98% and freeze everything (I have 8gb of ram).  And when my computer isn't crashing, 3ds max likes to throw a bunch of errors and problems in my direction causing me to research for a solution for hours or days... D8

Well, if you'd like to see some of this 3d stuff, here's my production blog: melaniestride.blogspot.com/ (it doesn't have much, but as the deadline for this project gets closer, I'm hoping to have some more stuff posted).  I will also be posting some screen shots and finished models to da if I deem them worthy.

In the meantime, I was wondering if people would be interested in seeing me livestream (both illustrations and/or 3d related work).  I was just curious if there was any interest.  

Btw here's my current WIP: kleewyck.deviantart.com/galler… been working on it an hour or so a day inbetween 3d animation because 3d makes me cry.