Separations and Theses
So, my father and Angela have decided it’s time to separate after 15 years together. I suppose this affects me, but I don’t find myself as emotionally invested in the concept as I thought I might. They’re grown-ups, they know themselves, and it’s not really any of my business if they want to move on with their lives. It does mean that visiting Florida is going to be even more convoluted now, but hey, what’s life without a little complication. Onward.
All principal animation on my thesis is complete. You heard me. There is an animated scene for every shot of my thesis. The entire thing, with credits and everything, is 4 minutes, 33 seconds long. Insanity. People warned me. I didn’t listen. I’ve got some touching up to do on it, as well as sound design, and I will be turning it in by the end of September; done deal.
Although my weight-loss has most certainly slowed significantly since the beginning of August, I’ve got 5 lbs to go and they are slowly coming off. This last part is tricky because I want to make sure I’m just losing fat and nothing else, so slow is probably a good thing. I’m at 175.8. Pretty soon there won’t be any more blogging to do about this process, as I’ll have met all my goals. Sweet.
I’ve been going to physical therapy for the last 2 weeks to see if I can’t get my right rotator cuff to function like the rest of my upper body. That means I’ve all but stopped my regular strength training routine aside from some arm work and legs. It’s pretty frustrating going from strength training 4 times a week to only twice and minimally even then, but as my therapist said, I’ve spent plenty of time working the rest of my body, I can give my shoulder six weeks of priority. And since she’s a complete cutie, how can I ignore that?
Production has still not quite started on my new project at work. Still doing animation tests on the characters, still trying to get myself up to the level of the other animators. I’m getting there, but keep in mind I just spent the last year and a half professionally cleaning up motion capture data, and now I’m an actual animator again.