Thought I had a good inspiration source for my DC3 module project. The old runes of the norse people, the Futhark. Each rune got some sort of meaning or symbolism. Also it's an alphabet, which is what the whole assignemt is supposed to be about (or vaugely connected to, from what I hear from the teachers).

Rune	UCS	Transliteration	IPA	Proto-Germanic name	Meaning
	ᚠ	f	/f/	*fehu	"wealth, cattle"
	ᚢ	u	/u(ː)/	?*ūruz	"aurochs" (or *ûram "water/slag"?)
	ᚦ	þ	/θ/, /ð/	?*þurisaz	"the god Thor, giant"
	ᚨ	a	/a(ː)/	*ansuz	"one of the Æsir (gods)"
	ᚱ	r	/r/	*raidō	"ride, journey"
	ᚲ	k	/k/	?*kaunan	"ulcer"? (or *kenaz "torch"?)
	ᚷ	g	/g/	*gebō	"gift"
	ᚹ	w	/w/	*wunjō	"joy"
	ᚺ ᚻ	h	/h/	*hagalaz	"hail" (the precipitation)
	ᚾ	n	/n/	*naudiz	"need"
	ᛁ	i	/i(ː)/	*īsaz	"ice"
	ᛃ	j	/j/	*jēra-	"year, good year, harvest"
	ᛇ	ï (or æ)	/æː/(?)	*ī(h)waz/*ei(h)waz	"yew-tree"
	ᛈ	p	/p/	?*perþ-	meaning unclear, perhaps "pear-tree".
	ᛉ	z	/z/	?*algiz	unclear, possibly "elk".
	ᛊ	s	/s/	*sōwilō	"Sun"
	ᛏ	t	/t/	*tīwaz/*teiwaz	"the god Tiwaz"
	ᛒ	b	/b/	*berkanan	"birch"
	ᛖ	e	/e(ː)/	*ehwaz	"horse"
	ᛗ	m	/m/	*mannaz	"Man"
	ᛚ	l	/l/	*laguz	"water, lake" (or possibly *laukaz "leek")
	ᛜ ᛝ	ŋ	/ŋ/	*ingwaz	"the god Ingwaz"
	ᛟ	o	/o(ː)/	*ōþila-/*ōþala-	"heritage, estate, possession"
	ᛞ	d	/d/	*dagaz	"day"

(Copypasted of Wikipedia, so the images gets the boot. I'm mostly putting it here so I can find it whenever.)


But given a second look, it's actually quite hard to put some visual ideas down to each. And so many damn trees! o_o

Also, there needs to be some secondary research here. I mean... Ulcer? Realy? But hey, I don't need to be compleatly accurate. And I'm shure as hell won't call Yngvi Ingwaz, or Tyr Tiwas.

Anywhooo... I'm falling a bit behind on this one as well. Work work.

RESEARCH!
I've been a bit sick and fallen behind on pretty much everything, but now I think that I've at least found out what the hell I want to research in my Studiopractice and Business course.

I think I really want to research what oppertunities there are for animators in Norway, and alternativly, Canada. I don't really know too well the companies and groups that do/need animation in Norway. The major game developer is of course FunCom, but they're not the only ones methinks. There are of course quite a few companies that do mostly comercials and other stuff, like Toxic etc. But I don't have a good overview of these companies, who they are, what they do and what they need.

Alternativly, there's Canada. I don't really know why. My family have had some connections to that country, for various reasons. But I have noticed that several animation companies and even designers I come across are in Canada (Corus Entertainment Inc, the makers of Ruby Gloom. Nitrogen Studios, who did the cinematics for God of War). It's also not to far away from the US, where we've got Disney and Pixar :). I just don't think I want to be living there. I find a nation so obsessed with guns and war a bit unnerving. Still, it's close enough to take a flight to ComiCon etc., stuff I always have wanted to visit.

I don't really see myself staying in England. The people are nice, but dunno...

I think I'll forgo the research towards directing and stuff. I'll probably do more of that in private, for my own little shorts and stuff. It's more of a hobby methinks.


..gotta run to CCA.

S.W.O.T

New site ain't up yet, so I put this here for now.



SWOT!
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Abilities!


S(trength): Creative, team-player, realistic

W(eaknesses): Introvert, sometimes unfocused

O(pportunities): digging in to a good bit of work and honing my focus (like a ninja!)

T(hreats): swineflu? spontanious combustion? Tyler Durden? (dunno what to write here)



Skills!


S(trength): Animation, Cinematography

W(eaknesses): rendering, advanced rigging, other "technical stuff". Lack experience.

O(pportunities): learning different software packages, getting experience

T(hreats): going blind, breaking my hands



Interests!



S(trength): Interested in films, animations and games.

W(eaknesses): Don't like "the technical stuff".

O(pportunities): Meet people from the industry, people with experience and people with the same interests (Animex, SAS, various companies around here).

T(hreats): going blind



Values! (motivations)

S(trength): Watching animations, feedback from my peers, coca-cola

W(eaknesses): poor base ideas, indifferent people (apathy spawns apathy)

O(pportunities): Working with people in CCA, live close to my peers and easly ask for feedback

T(hreats): Self doubt :(



Personal Qualities!

S(trength): Honest, calm, team-player

W(eaknesses): honest, unfocused, unconfident

O(pportunities): personal projects is good for practicing focus

T(hreats): failing everything! misserably!



Preferred Lifestyle! (This is where I'm a bit lost, 'cus is dunno)


S(trength): To work in a company as an animator for film, tv-series or games. To make personal shortfilms that might be sent to festivals. Perhaps be a film director for an animated film some day.

W(eaknesses): Feel I need some sort of job security

O(pportunities): Getting a degree here might help me get a foot into the industry.

T(hreats): The economy. Mandatory military service. Explosions.

STARTING NEW WEBSITE!

so, just about every course I have wants me to make me a productionblog. And this blog was already getting a wee bit messy.

So I'm currently trying to buy projectsofdoom.com (which was a plan I had to begin with).

One.com however, isn't making it easy for me. But a friend of mine (Simen) have been using their services for a while, and they seem mostly okey.

It'll give me the oppertunity to make a bit more structured system for the many blogs, and also give me a future base for a portfolio, and for the webcomic I still haven't given up on.

Happy surfing

Haven't used this much colour sence kindergarden, I think.

S.ROSE.VOL2!

OHMYGOOOOOOOOOOD!
(this is my impersitanion of Troll 2 with good acting, but you can't tell)

http://www.slgcomic.com/PRESS-RELEASE-Serenity-Rose-Volume-2_df_500.html



must. have. the. AWESOME!

a while ago I rambled about not finding my favorite comicbook. That comicbook is Vol.1. This is Vol.2 and I WANTS IT!

To be fair, The entire Vol.2 (as far as I know) is published online for free. Which is awesome. I've been following it's process with big googly fanboy-eyes ever sence it started (by lucky coinkidink, I frequented his website in that timeperiod. My teacher had the class find art by people we admired).

But sometimes you need the awesome in your lap when you want to read some printed format. Aaron Alexovich is a great artist, whom with exeptional storytelling and a keen eye for details, have captured my eyeballs. (Mostly because my heart have already been captured by a certain socioligy student :3). The dude did conceptart and other stuff for Invader Zim, and his personal stuff is, in my opinion, even more awesome!

If you haven't read the Serenity Rose comics, I highly recomend you begin right now. Preferably by buying Vol.1 after reading the first part of it for free at his website; http://www.heartshapedskull.com/(All art is used under the "I'm-promoting-your-stuff-please-dont-sue" agreement. Aaron Alexovich; if you don't want me to use you art in my psychotic fan-boy rant, just tell me :) )

"bring along examples of your character work to the practicalsessions"... "please upload your work onto a BLOG, vimeo, youtube or similar"....

now where the hell have I put these things?



damn youtube cuts this one about a second at the end
Can't find anything else...

...uhmm, does this one qualify for character animation? one of my first animations with a rig :P


my gods, it's horrible -_-' :P