Good times!

Well, I took both my finals today. I didn't do nearly as well on them as I had on previous tests for those classes, so that's sort of a sad way to end my college career. Hey, at least the animation thing is going all right. Aside from still having to do at least two full day's worth of work on it, I'm figuring out the last very important things that need to be set up to make all the sounds work correctly. The only sounds involved are Josh narrating the whole thing. It's getting pretty enormous. If you listen to the thing the whole way through, it's about twenty minutes. The way we have it set up, you could breeze through it just to watch the animations in about five minutes. So, understandably, I want to install some buttons that turn the narration on and off. I'm sure that the program can do that, but I don't know how. Luckily, I've found a way around it by making buttons that tell the animation to jump to different frames where the sound isn't playing. Hopefully it will work, though I really have no idea. It's going to be very repetitive work, and I'm not looking completely forward to it. However, as writer Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (chick-sent-me-high) once said, "Consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it." I find that a very true statement.

Oooh! Sweet! I just found an option where I can create a button that has the power to "Stop all sounds". Looks like I'm set. I'm sure most of you have no idea what I mean by a lot of this, but you'll see soon enough...hopefully. Sorry if this post might be somewhat boring to most of you. Used to, when I would have all sorts of thoughts like this running through my head, I would develop the need to tell someone everything that was going on. My last girlfriend is the person I used to unload all my thoughts on, but since we broke up nearly two months ago, this blog is a nice outlet. It's always nice to have someone to talk to. So, there you go, there's another of the reasons I'm doing a blog. I'm so used to having someone to talk to, that it was hard to give that opportunity up. The blog has provided me with a means of unloading my thoughts. Now, with the internet, I can talk to nobody, but potentially everybody, with a blog! Oh, the miracles of the modern world.

I don't know where I'm to find someone who'll host this animation when I'm done. With all the sound in it, it's already topped 2 MB. Anyways, here's a picture of part of it, if anyone's interested.



This is just one scene, and it doesn't even have the text yet, but it's there, it's nearing completion. This is the hunter from the story I published links to yesterday, in his bedroom discovering that there indeed was gold under them thar' pillows, just as the ugly old woman told him there would be. I know it's anachronistic, but there's a poster of Die Aerzte on the wall, too. I know that this is pretty insubstantial so far, but if anyone has any sort of comments on it, please let me know.