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Week 3: A Week of Firsts

This past week was pretty full-on as our ‘proper’ classes started. The first day where we were introduced to Maya 8.5 was an experience-and-a-half having never really used the program until now. It was very much being thrown in the deep end, but I’m gradually getting the hang of it.

Life drawing classes on Thursday was a misnomer, having had the model pike on us at the last moment and as a result we sketched some stuffed birds. I’ve never done life drawing before, so it was an interesting experience. And with my first drawings looking like stick-figures, I gradually started to get the hang of it towards the end.

A trip to the iCinema on friday was an interesting look at display technologies – stereoscopic 360° images, interactive spaces and a minority-report-styled video browsing system (lots of video clips floating in 3D space around you that you can select, move, combine, etc). Very, very impressive even in its early stages.

Friday night saw a screening of last years graduate films including the Oscar nominated ‘The Saviour’ (great short film) which was really impressive. Saturday night was spent in the village, hopping from one party to another (albeit unintentionally). And finally we have a new flat-mate: Sarah from the States (Iowa).

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