Catching Up and Cut Paper

It's been a while since my last blog. A whole lot is happening in the office and in my studies. The handwashing campaign is pretty wrapped up for now. I'll have a bunch to tweak near the end of the semester for finals, but we'll leave it till then. My next project hasn't been so good to me. I'm making a publication about foods that are good for directing your mood, and quick recipes for how to use them. As my professor said in office hours on Monday, I was sick last week and so was my work. SO this week I went in to talk to my professor early and tried to gain back some of the productivity I had fallen behind in. I'm still behind, and this project is more complicated than I thought. Luckily a lot of my class is also having trouble, so, in the end, I'm not toooooo far behind compared to other people. It's a mid-semester slump, but we're all picking up the pace to try and make finals do-able. This week I bring in my new concept for the page layouts, sketches, and information about my next project as well as names and slogans. Goodness. I have a bunch to do before class today at 2:30. So it goes.

I haven't talked a lot about my animation studio, but I had a really good class yesterday. We're starting on our own personal animations, as opposed to the last claymation which was a group project. During the beginning of the semester the professor had us picking out newspaper articles to respond to and share. Now we're doing an animation inspired by something in an article we heard of. My animation is about virtual twins, two people who are less than 9 months apart and who were raised in the same household as siblings. Studies show that even though these people have had similar upbringings, they are far more different from each other than biological twins are in personality intelligence and so on. I'm doing my animation using stop motion and cut paper characters. I'm enjoying the physicality of cutting out paper characters and sets, even though my friend tells me that it looks exactly like my style of illustration using the computer program Adobe Illustrator. I guess that makes sense. I wonder if it's ok to have a style as a designer. I'll have to ask the professors.