Oh, dear. I forgot that I had this blog here. Well, uh, yeah. Name's Rogue, and as the title says, I'm a student at Ringling School (*Or should I say, Ringling College, I'm still not used to that*) of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL, majoring in Computer Animation.
I probably should have written about my freshman year, as I am now a sophmore. Oh, sorry. Well, my freshman year was pretty damn crappy anyways. So I'm sorry to all you people expecting posts about my "freshman year", because I really don't feel like it. But I'll give you incoming froshes a little tip or two:
- If you can- New Student Center (NSC, might just be called "Student Center" now, dunno) dorms will save you many days of dragging crap up and down stairs of the other dorms, not to mention they're nicer. Unfortunately some of them are triples now (WTF are they thinking??) , so I'm not sure how that will change the atmosphere of that place.
- Look at those damn syllabuses. The teachers will grind you if you don't and then you come to them with problems come midterms.
CA Specifics:
-Yeah, I'd agree with Syllabuses I said before.
- You will learn to hate History of Animation's multiple choice tests, but they ARE tameable if you take the time to study.
- TA will also prove a challenge if you were like me, 18, fresh out of high school, and hardly any apparently "useful" art skills even after a semester of work. Be prepared to have your spirits crushed and your hopes killed, but never give up.
-Just don't plan on getting much sleep. And any big projects like "comic book work" like I tried to do at the same time as animation? You'd better be REALLY good at time management or else you'll have to drop the "projects" like I did.
Hmm, yeah. That's about it for me and my freshman year. Some other time I'll tell you everything, as seriously...I didn't have a good freshman year, so I'm trying to start new on this one. This journal will pretty much serve as a sketchblog sort of thing until I get going on animation and blah blah blah stuff when I get back to school in August. Somewhat. Depending on how my teachers are, they may not want things online until they grade them. (My teacher in TA last year was like that.)
Oh, and 日本人のRingling大学生だ、ちょっと日本語を話すことができます。アメリカのワシントン州のスポカネの高校で、四年に日本語を勉強した。だって、日本語の会話あまり上手ではない でも、私は日本語の話すより読んで、書いて上手ですよ。日本文法は大変だよ！。私のヒマに日本語ビデオゲームと日本語漫画をたのしみます。アニメはいいですが、しばしば見ません。(だって、だって、ドラゴンボール大好き！＜３！)
ここは日本語の書くことが練習して、コメントを残してもいいです。そして、ここも私のスケッチブログでしょうね。
お楽しみにしてください。
Yes, for English people/if my Japanese is THAT rusty: I can speak Japanese. At my high school in Spokane, WA, for four years I studied Japanese, with a teacher that was actually Japanese to boot. But, I'm not very good at Japanese conversations. *Out of practice. A LOT.* But I can read and write Japanese better than I can speak it. ...because in my free time I enjoy Japanese video games and manga so that's how I keep my reading and writing skills relatively sharp. My listening skills aren't half bad either. Anime is okay, but I don't watch it often. But I love Dragon Ball! And Japanese comedy like Downtown! <3!
So yeah, I have some skill in Japanese, but please excuse any crap I may throw out. I haven't had a real Japanese speaking buddy (aside from anime people who I can "get away" talking like Naruto or something because otherwise they won't understand what I'm saying *sigh*) for awhile and I'm rusty. But unlike most, I'm not afraid of sounding like an idiot while speaking Japanese, and I give this reason: You'll never get better unless you practice. So yeah. I'll sound like a "gaijin" (foreigner), but I will never let that embarass me, and for those of you who think it would be embarassing to speak Japanese even if I'm not in Japan and if I'm not Japanese.....静かにしてください。＝P
Alright, this post is long enough. Later.
As you can see, I'm downtown with all the frilly stuff like Tiffany's and Saks 5th Avenue. Bah. And if you can't....well.... I'm SOOO out of practice when it comes to sketching. *sigh* Guess I'll go do some more today and since I probably will only have the internet today (unless my mother admits that the world needs the internet to function)...I'll get back to you at the end of my trip or something.