So my new class has started and I already hate every bit of it which is never a good way to kick things off. It’s an advanced 2D animation

class and I figured out years back that 2D was not a style that I preferred, but this is a core class and the last 2D class I have to take for my major. The plus is that my classes are only five and a half weeks, the drawback to that though is that they are a very intensive five and a half weeks and the teacher is picky as hell about every little thing and that isn’t helping me much either. We were assigned characters, which took away the freedom to create, and what’s worse is that we were all assigned the SAME character, and given a character turn around sheet to basically copy the character from. Well, gee, I’m just so thrilled to have no creative freedom whatsoever, yay, I just really feel like drawing now NOT! He asked for thumbnails, and then said they wrong because they weren’t detailed, thumbnails are not supposed to have that much

detail, at least not the way they were explained in other classes, what he’s asking for is a storyboard, only he sure didn’t word it that way so now the time I spent drawing last night was wasted because it all has to be done again. Joy.

So why am I typing this rant instead of drawing….because I hate this class and I don’t want to draw some stupid, droopy, slacker human character for a comedy club skit when I hate comedies and think the script I came up with is stupid. Mostly though, I’m just venting before I sit here and redo the mess I’ve made of my work so I can actually move on to something more amusing till I have to draw again. If I don’t vent I’ll just sit here and stew and be angry for hours like a petulant little kid while my kids walk through the living room laughing at all the paper I’ve thrown all over the place and whispering comments to one another that “mommy’s pouting.”