An unexpected perspective (Aka Nerd Heaven)

I just finished my first semester at FIEA and I thought that after all the lack of sleep and hard work, I wouldn’t want to touch my computer for the rest of December. And I didn’t for about two days. Those first two days were amazing, I slept excessively and ate a lot, and that was about it. But since then, I’ve been itching to get back to work. Lucky for me, we were already assigned the group projects we’ll be working on for the next two semesters and my group is just as eager as I am to get to work. We’ve already had a 3 hour brainstorming session and the artists were assigned a series of seven two-hour tutorials to do over the winter break. I’m already halfway through them and I feel like such a nerd because I’m really excited about some of the stuff I’ve learned. I love animation, so learning about set driven keys and expressions is like early Christmas! :) I’m home visiting my family and I think they’re getting pretty sick of me going on and on about it. They have no idea what I’m talking about, but I’m so excited that I can’t help telling them about it anyways.

I’m glad to see that I’m not alone when it comes to working over the break. I might feel like kind of a loser if I was the only one. That’s what I really like about FIEA; all my classmates are really nice and are a lot like me. This past Friday night, instead of hanging out downtown or going to the movies, I hung out with two of my classmates and worked on Maya tutorials and projects. We were all laughing about how nerdy we were. But I guess it’s not really that nerdy, it’s pretty cool to have friends who are so driven and love what they do. It keeps me on my toes. I’m really excited to be working with a large group for the next two semesters, with all these talented people our game is going to be amaaaaazing!