feeling good
So today I was suppose to have 2 interviews for internships, one with DK and the other at HA, but the DK guy was sick today so I’ll have to reschedule that one. But I did meet with the people at HA and I think it went pretty well! I actually recognized 4/5 of the people who met with me, which was nice and I think helped me feel more at ease. 1 guy was in my intro to mograph class, 2 were in the intro to after effects class, and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the girl promoting AIGA at various events around town.
I felt a little more awkward with the guy I had never met, but I think most of that was because it was more talking about interaction design and not my work specificly (although he had seen it online already). I think I’m pretty comfortable talking about my own work because I’ve thought about it all a lot. But I’m a little less comfortable on the spot, even though it was meant to be a fairly “casual” conversation.
But overall they said I had a strong portfolio and seemed impressed, which is very reassuring coming from them. I also asked them for feedback about the work/presentation in general just for my own knowledge since I’m getting this stuff together and they had some helpful comments.
Evaluating
It is kind of a hard evaluating my own design work. I mean think overall I feel pretty good about my stuff, but I think a lot of feeling is based on how other people feel about it. I look at a lot of other people’s work (designers, illustrators, etc) from all over the place that is a lot better than mine, so I’m sort of unsure. But at the same time I seem to be getting positive feedback so it’s like “well, i guess if they think it’s good I must be doing something right.” and I trust them (if they are people I respect). I know quite a few people who I think are really good designers but are slowed down and stressed out by not believing in themselves, even when other people are telling them they are talented, which is unfortunate.
I have a lot of other things brewing in my head… but I think I’ll end on that for now to keep from getting too wordy….
End o break
Man, spring break went by way too fast this year. This was the first year in a while that I haven’t gone anywhere for spring break, but it was actually kind of nice. I spent quite a bit of it messing with AE, and made this “card” although I haven’t sent it off to them yet.
Also spent break cooking (banana bread in the oven right now!) and watching movies and sleeping in and overall chilling out. So weird this is my last quarter. I’m only taking one class this quarter (senior project) because hopefully I’ll have other things to fill my time…
I have 2 interviews for internships on Tuesday! I’m kinda worried just because I don’t know what they’re expecting to see from me or what to expect there. Hopefully they’ll go well though, updates/details afterwards. I don’t want to jinx myself or anything…
Move it
Last night was my last class at DK, we ate pizza and watched people’s stuff, all around good times. Although It kind of amazes me how many people ended up jumping ship. I think we started with 18 or so people. Last night we ended up with like 10. I think about 5 people had pretty finished pieces. It’s such a great and rare opportuity to be able to get that kind of insider insight, I don’t understand why people wouldn’t want to take advantage of that. Especially if you’re going to pay that much for it. Maybe it’s different for the guys that had their companies pay for it. I dunno. Anyways, I think it ended up going pretty well. I uploaded a quicktime (24mb) of my final piece, check it out if you’d like:
I’m also going to be putting it on youtube, so you will be able to check it out hereif the 24 megs takes too long to load or something.
I think I’m pretty much in love with making things move now. I mean, not only is it creating things, it’s bringing those things to life! It’s like making little babies with out all having to actually deal with baby related things, like changing poopy pants. Although last night there were comments about a piece “diarrhea-ing confetti”…
I have a ton of other ideas I want to animate. Already started on something over the weekend.
End-o-winter
So tomorrow is “finals” and I’m chillin. Despite the fact that I’ve spent the past few weekends living in the art building I have to say our actual finals day is always pretty nice. While most people are stressing over tests and stuff we just have to present our final stuff and eat cereal (if everyone remembers to bring things like they’re suppose to!) I think I’ve discovered the secret to stress free finals week: At least keep up somewhat the first part of the quarter but haul some serious ass durring week 8. Smooth sailing after that. Seems to work fairly well.
Updated Portfolio
Anyways, I’ve updated the portfolio site with stuff from this quarter! Exhibit Design and Interaction Design stuff. check it out if you’d like.
I think our exhibit turned out pretty well. Even though there were quite a few long 12+ hour days in the studio working on it, I had a good time working with Matt & Allyson. And I’m actually pretty happy with the “Warming Seasons” one, despite the fact that we only had like 2 weeks to build it out completely. The piggy one I am still a little unsure about, although everyone else seems to like it so I don’t know.
Still one more week of Motion Design stuff, but rest assured it will be online next week as well.
By Design
In other news, we saw the 8-bit movie at By Design on Saturday, which was pretty interesting. Opened up a whole new level of geekiness that I didn’t even know about. The other two things that night (panel & shorts) were also good, although I think they have been better in the past. It was kinda weird having 3/4 of the panelists be from DK, not that I don’t totally love all those guys. I just wish there was a little more representation from other places, though there aren’t a whole bunch around this area.
This is one of my favorites from the shorts. So simple & low tech, but nice:
Grandaddy: Jed’s Other Poem
