To an Unforgettable Semester :)
Here's why...
Nothing went as planned... The classes i was supposed to take were canceled last minute. So, I ended up picking the first Character Animation group directed studies class with Tom Bertino that, amazingly still wasn't super over-flowingly full as it always is, the day before Semester commenced. And, it turned out to be a good move.
Summer 2009, ANM 801- Group Directed Studies:
Taught by Tom Bertino. A class like no other XD... There were six of us working on six individual projects, insane and whacky in their own way:
1. A film (i wonder whose :D) about a billion hungry germs trying to beat the 5 second rule.
2. A film about a hungry four eyed lemon creature and a blind rabbit waiter.
yeeeaaah... imagine the possibilities. (image by
Randie)
3. A film about two bums. An egg and a pigeon called Eggy the Crackhead and Milton the Pigeon. Haha! Milton the Pigeon... I'm always so distracted by things that rhyme XD
4. A film about a shy armor shiner trying to win the heart of a princess who's in love with herself.
5. A film about a bunch of kids in marine costumes playing baseball. Haha! try finding the logic in that. And, now imagine us having to give feed back that would help make the story believable and remotely relatable XD I tell you, only thing i could think of most of the time watching it was that i really really want to eat that kid in the shrimp costume. MmMMmmm... PRAWNS... Bwuahahaa!!!
6. A film about a horny bird flirting with a toy one on a spring... Em, you know, kinda like those bobblehead dolls.
So, since the fact is that all of us were leaning towards some kind of weird, devious, slightly morbid or all of the above sort of humour, obviously we had a class full of strange, devious, slightly kookoo minded people. Now imagine the kinds of comments, suggestions and feedback that would come up when you put all these people in one little room at the back of the top most floor of 180NM of the AAU in the middle of San Francisco with a computer each and internet access. And, the fact that we had Tom as our professor probably added to, rather than neutralized the insanity level.
In summary, here are some videos, images and comments that were made throughout this semester.
Comment 1: Made about the male birdie trying to impress the female birdie by flexing his muscles... "The bottom half of his body looks constipated." "Maybe he flexes so hard he accidentally craps." And then it lead to a series of poop jokes that were so funny i can't seem to remember then anymore.
Comment 2: Made about a picture of a kebab in the toilet... "That looks like goat poop on a stick."
Comment 3: Made about the kids in whale costumes playing baseball... "They look like tou-fu!" "Do your whales have ears or are they eyes?"
Comment 4: Made about the kids in shrimp costumes in the background, watching the baseball game... "WHAT ARE THEY DOING!?!?!" haha... ok you really had to be there to see it. The supposedly nervous little shrimp-kids looked like they were humping each other. SERIOUSLY!
Comment 5: Made about the design of the pitcher's mound in the marine inspired baseball field... "Your fish mound looks more like a... erm... should i say it?" someone else, "Sperm?"
Comment 6: Made about a long gallery of paintings of the narcissist Princess... "Ooo ooo! You could Photoshop her face into famous paintings. She could be the Mona Lisa and... OH! Venus in the Birth of Venus!"
Here's a little visual reminder for you who didn't actually know that was the name of this painting.
Comment 7: Made after watching a few scenes animated by Jan Faye... "What is with you and poo poo jokes?" "I think there's a 13 year old boy's brain trapped in her head."
Comment 8: Made after watching Germy fall to his possible demise... "You should give him the Wilhelm Scream." And that led to us watching this...
Comment 9: About this picture
which someone had printed out and pinned onto one of the notice boards with a tagline that said "Is this Jeffery Katzenberg?" in the 3D Lab as a joke on Tom... "Is that you in the picture down in the Blue Sky lab?" Tom, "Yes. Believe it or not, there was a time when i was actually young... I walked by Jeffery Katzenberg once and he actually spun around and looked me up and down." And thus lead to the discovery that we can actually find bunch of interesting/fun/funny stuff if we googled some of our professors XD By the way peoples, Jeffery Katzenberg is one of the founders of Dreamsworks.
Comment 10: Tom's final advice about my thesis project thus far... "Do Junk." Yay! So apparently my rubbish actually appeals to a certain audience that is actually asking for more XD Here's to all you un-funny peoples who's ever called my jokes lame, some people actually like them! XD
Finally, we ended our Semester with this... I kid you not, these were really the last things we viewed in class...
Poopie Hamster. What goes around comes around. Haha!
They call this the Power Poop.
What else did u think was in there? Bwuahahaa!!! Oh no!
Talk about rapid fire XD
The Poop-Olympics.
AhahahHAhahaa!!! The fountain of Poop.
Em... i don't even have a comment for this.
The benefits of wealth.
Crappy Birthday to you too XD
HAhaha! talk about being full of sh.. erm, ka-ka ;P
Ass-trology!
Now if i should say... those are what truly can be called LMAO moments. Cheers again to a truly unforgettable class ;)
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