We all need Rivals
I have a rival at my school. I don’t know if he knows he’s my rival, but he is. Because he’s better (and younger) than me. He’s good. Too good. No, not too good, but still, very good. So much so that I am forced to up my game if I am to be the best animator in class. You see, I can BE the best animator in my class because I have five years experience on everyone else. While they’re trying desperately to grasp what “easing in” and “easing out” are, I can cackle in my head and race ahead to craft what are considered brilliant works in a beginner animation course. Bwah ha ha! However my rival takes that ability away, for he can upstage me even without my experience! BAH!
So it’s a good thing. I imagine we all need rivals to push us forward. Look at Ash. I bet if Gary hadn’t been such a popular Pokemon master Ash would still be doing stupid stuff like LETTING HIS BUTTERFREE GO. IDIOT. WHY DID YOU DO THAT? IT WAS YOUR BEST POKEMON!
Sorry, tangent. Where was I?
Ah yes, my rival. So I have hatched a brilliant scheme to show him up on the next project. It’s a character head turn, which needs to include things like anticipation, reaction, and easing. I’m not certain I can do it better than he can, because while I have a very good grasp of movement, he is adept at movement AND has drawing skills to back it up. (My drawing skills are slim to non-existent.) Ah, but what he WON’T expect is my adding humor and extras into my head turn! Things not even on the project list! What was once a simple head turn will become an ENTIRE SCENE! HA HA HA! HOW WILL YOU FIGHT THAT WHICH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW IS COMING?!?
Also I’m hoping he doesn’t read my blog. But I doubt he does, and by next week it will be TOO LATE. Then I will have crushed him in front of everyone and I will get the kudos I deserve! KUDOS!
Perhaps I’m being a little overly dramatic, but I’m now officially an animator, and it comes with the territory.
KUDOS!!!!!
July 28th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
The bit on Pokemon was hilarious. Hope you do good!
July 29th, 2010 at 1:06 am
Hmm, I would’ve given you a 100, but you went off-task and added unnescessary objects to your project! It’s like you were trying to out do someone! How silly.
July 29th, 2010 at 8:32 am
“Hmm, I would’ve given you a 100, but you went off-task and added unnescessary objects to your project! It’s like you were trying to out do someone! How silly.”
Pssh! Grades! What do I care for grades? What have grades ever gotten me? Kudos? I THINK NOT! I will gladly fail the project if it means the accolades of my peers and the entertainment of others. After all, an entertaining F is still better than a boring A.
In my opinion, of course. Perhaps not always, but in this case. In regards to the school system, which I feel is broken anyway. Grades are pretty meaningless in the long run. Yet I bet a lot of kids from my 9th grade English class remember my presentation on “The Pros and Cons of Cannibalism” because it was very entertaining.
July 29th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
HAHAHA. Sorry, I just found this very amusing. Hey, you don’t even get graded on this, and it’s entertaining, so…you’re right, who cares about grades??
July 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
do they all know about your website?
July 30th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Who all, the other students? Not really. I don’t much discuss it, considering they all think I’m “one of them” as opposed to someone with 5+ years Flash experience and whatnot. If a conversation leads to it, I’ll tell people about it, but I generally don’t go running up to folks screaming “GO SEE FREDTHEMONKEY.COM!!!!”
Not much, anyway.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:37 am
Lol imagine that!
“And tonight on News at Ten police are searching in the for a maniac student telling people to visit a ‘Fred the monkey dot com’ website. Jeff Turnbulls reports…”
“Yes I have an eyewitness here. What do you think of him?”
“He’s a maniac. He needs to be sent to the mental hospital. I watched his cartoons. They include subliminal messages. He’s a psychopath. Everyone should watch out for him.”
“Police have issued a photofit of the person, stated to look like a monkey called Fred…”
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:38 am
Oops, between “searching in the” and “for a maniac student” it should have said “insert area JKR lives here” in crocidile clippers (you know, the ones you get when you press Shift and the comma or period key).