Assessment Blog Post #1

It's submission time!
What have I done in this subject for the past 6 weeks? Well...
I have learnt how to use Blogspot, Flicr and Delicious and their purpose.

Blogspot has been quite fun to use. Being able to have full customisation over your page's appearance such as the background, style, layout of where things go, the font style and colour, able to easily upload pictures, create pages and follow and comment on other people's blogs. I definitely love the "preview" option before actually posting up a comment or a new post, very handy. I have commented on other people's post and have found some interesting anime to look forward to, added and re-arranged my gadgets. I was able to post up a poll about whether if people believe in healthy yelling or not, and setting my fishes on the top as my blog guardians.




Flickr is quite interesting. I have uploaded a few pictures of my drawings and from my visit of Philippines. I also have joined two awesome groups. A Lego group and a toy group! yes... I love toys, I still wish to have a Tonka one day. I have favourited a collectible toy of Edna from the Pixar movie The Incredibles.I created a new set for the Philippine photos. I liked it as it was quite fast and easy to add a description and titles.


Delicious is quite nice. Being able to bookmark websites. I have created a new stack consisting of the websites I constantly go to every so often, such as Deviant Art, CG Hub, Kid Robot and a few more.

Steam

Steam, oh how I'm grateful for thee.
Created by Valve, who has a developed the Counter Strike series, team Fortress 2 and Portal 1 and 2, they have support PC gaming immensely.

I am always on steam, whether I'm gaming or not, it's easy to manage my games, shop for games and not to mention the massive sales they have it's sometimes ridiculous! The feature I love is you can add friends to chat whilst playing a game simply just by the two magical buttons shift + tab, which brings up a steam overlay that doesn't interrupt your game, which enables to surf the internet. And inviting friends into games for a multiplayer (is not a word) match is the easiest thing to do!

I'm impressed, they have served over 780 petabytes... for gaming... that is too awesome! Here's some info on steam!


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Notch's thoughts on steam, creator of minecraft

The night before...

*flash back accompanied by an ease into uncontrollable blur and and growing blinding light transitioning to an old film effect and monotone colours*

*Voice over enters*

It was the night before my Body of Work for the, oh, so dramatic Higher School Certificate. The silence of the night screamed in stress and restlessness, the lamp glowing a golden atmosphere of heat, my goal was to create 3 more portraits by 8:00am the next morning.

I loved Visual Arts, I had true dedication that I did not sleep that night. Creating the subtle overall shade was a long process. There were two ways I could accomplish such a smooth texture:

 1. Where there was deep shadow, I applied a heavy thick line of charcoal directly onto the stone henge paper, then using the blending tool to spread it to the middle as a filling, slowly creating a nice blend between the hard shadows and light shade.  

2. Apply charcoal onto the blending tool and using it to fill in the centres that the dark shade could not reach.

This was a long process as it took ridiculous amounts of times to apply the charcoal onto the tool and as well as getting an even tone through out the drawing.

How did I keep my self alive!?

Through music, snacks and love for Visual Arts. 

My arsenal consisted of a bottles of water, chips, biscuits, water, and a wide selection of music like Beautiful Soul by Jesse McCartney.

This photo is taken between 1:00 - 3:00am, I am restless! My shoulder blades and the back of my neck where at the brink of shattering due to the oblivious nature of slouching over the table to get the glorious detail and balance. This was my break, I don't remember how long it went for but I felt amazing!

Few hours later, I have finally finished the drawings and fixing the ones that needed attention and repairs. I packed up everything into a large make shift folder (Large white square paper on bed) to get ready to take and bring it to school. If I had forgotten anything, I could literally just run back home since it is simply across the street of one of the school's entrances. Honestly. hm... Starting to think I'm building a good history of places I've lived.

*Transition effects queue*

And so I'm here, in front of a computer, living in a unit on top of an adult shop, with a walk cycle due in 2 days and making this post for an assessment due in 3 days. Simply beautifully Grand.

Delicously Evil

Here's my Delicious page!

Cereal Nerf Gun Situation...

The past few days have been quite interesting...

Through our (me and my roommates) great journey amongst the uni life, we have recently obtained Nerf guns in order to entertain ourselves whilst we struggle to feel any form of satisfaction as we study and/or do our assignments. It was a wise and glorious decision as we have fought against each other, picked on a single person at times, betray one another and also have decided to end all disputes with a showdown.

Apart from the violence and horrific injuries some of us have endured caused by the Nerf guns, I woke up one morning, only to find out the Fruit Loops cereal packaging found within the cereal box was cut with scissors. With great energy, I marched up the hall way shouting "WHAT IS THIS MADNESS!?" at around 8:30 in the morning... I felt victorious... I don't know why, but I did. The one responsible had a face of "I cannot believe you" whilst my other roommate did nothing but join me and my argument against the use of scissors to open the cereal packaging. Once all unbelievability was gone from both parties, I continued to the creation of my breakfast.

Flickr!!!

Flickr... It's quite interesting... I must look into it more... more!... MORE!!!

To start off, My Flickr

Introduction of etc.

HELLOOOO!!! =D

So... what to say... introduction! My name is Delwin Dale Atienza, I am a first year student in university who has moved away from home to study and experience the largest flood in over a 100 years in Wagga which was a nice and warm welcoming gift (that story later). I am currently studying a Bachelor of Arts in Animation and Visual Effects in which I am enjoying immensely... I do hope that is the write word. but yes, it is grand, the experiences of independence, financial managing of the poor uni student... ability to scream around the house, annoy roommates, devouring through the lack supply of snacks... the independent life is brilliant. ^.^

The FLOOD was an interesting experience. Woke up in the morning roughly around 8, aware of the evacuation clues of our area such as the radio clearly stating and the empty streets, still didn't evacuate till noon when someone came up to our door that we needed to evacuate. SO, we finally packed our stuff and headed out, with no clue where to go and how to get there. Luckily we found a police officer who drove us to the comfort of Mount Austin High School and spent 1 night. We got back to our humble home through a teacher who was kind enough to drive us back.

So many stuff has happened in the last... 4 weeks since we've moved in... and so many thing will happen in the not so distant future of our time.

OH! I also live on top of an adult shop... thought that might be interesting to post up. =)