{"id":37,"date":"2005-12-05T17:49:13","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/05\/week-10-sleep-maybe-later\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T04:13:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T09:13:27","slug":"week-10-sleep-maybe-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/2005\/12\/05\/week-10-sleep-maybe-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10 &#8211; Sleep?  Maybe later."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we had another cool video diary detailing of a student workflow, this time by <a href=\"http:\/\/mattg.weavo.net\/\">Matthew Garward<\/a>.  He&#8217;s married, has two kids and a full time job and still manages to find the time to do some amazing work at AM.   Having recently entered the workforce myself (unfortunately in a position that is not animation related), I found his tips very worthwhile.  Mostly he stressed that it was important to get as much done early, and not to procrastinate.  Not only does this help if you&#8217;re schedule is full, but it gives the other students and your mentor a chance to see your work mid-week.  His other secret?  Don&#8217;t sleep very much.  I decided to try it out myself, more out of necessity than anything else, and found that it makes the work days seem long, but it&#8217;s tolerable, and you can still get a good bit of animation done in the evening.  The key is to make sure you don&#8217;t stay up so late you get dimishing returns, and hours go by while staring at the computer screen without any real work getting done.  If that happens, it&#8217;s time to go to bed!  My hat is off to you, Mr. MattG!  To do this with a wife and kids as well as a job, you are truly a time management master!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of animation, this week we were supposed to have our assignment switched to spline.  The first and last bits of mine are switched, with varying degrees of success, but I ended up reblocking some things in the middle, so they&#8217;re still in stepped for this week.  This is the final week for this assignment, and I would really love to have a good, polished, demo reel quality piece coming out of it, so crits and comments are welcome as always.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/blog\/q2s10_puke_half_smoothed.avi\">Puke Animation, half-polished.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we had another cool video diary detailing of a student workflow, this time by Matthew Garward. He&#8217;s married, has two kids and a full time job and still manages to find the time to do some amazing work at AM. Having recently entered the workforce myself (unfortunately in a position that is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}