Pissed

Soo, I'm pretty pissed off right now. This is going to be a short post, just a general statement about why I'm pissed off.

Soo I'm feeling better today. My mom said I could sleep in for a bit and then she'll drop me off at school late. Well the school basically told us that I should just stay home if I'm "sick" still. I seriously feel fine. I could have gone to school today. I wanted to go to school today. I was denied.

What the hell.

I'm just staying home and playing video games for the time being. My mom is bring back In-N-Out later, so that should be good. I gotta burn another 8 hours doing nothing. Joy.

Again, this is a short post. Basically doing most the things I did yesterday, except I feel better. No need to repeat my actions. Update tomorrow maybe?

I Stayed Home Again

My mom turned off my alarm this morning because I had a fever. I slept till 11 a.m., so I had a long 12 hour sleep. I woke up and the first thing I do is start playing Call of Duty again. Then I had some soup that scalded my mouth so that sorta hurt. And it sucks to try to eat when you can't taste. So I just ate some tasteless fried rice and some tasteless noodle soup. Couldn't finish the soup because I was turned off by my loss of taste. I'm not really sure what I did after that. I think I watched an hour of Law & Order with my mom. Then I took a long warming shower with all the doors closed so it was really warm when I got out. And then I just lied down on the sofa I think and eventually I fell asleep. I woke up about 3 hours later with my mom and my brother out of the house. I'm not sure if I took a motrin pill when I was asleep, so right now I'm totally sober, and I'm not doing too bad.

A lot of people have been getting sick. I'm wondering where I got the damn virus from; I recall getting sick a few days after the long karate tournament I attended. My sensei got sick, a bunch of my karate friends got sick, and now a bunch of my school friends are sick. I hope I didn't bring it to Beckman.

According to Ryan, a few of our friends have been sick. And Ryan, you shouldn't be going to school with a fever, it's not good for your body, and it won't help you get better. Swimming will probably make it worse for you, don't do that to your body.

Why do I have to get sick twice? Why is the second time worse than the first?! It's never the second time that's the hardest, it's always the first. I'm not used to getting sick like this; whenever I get sick, it's usually takes a few days or something like that to get better, and then I'm not sick for a long time after. Well, 1 and a half weeks?! What the hell! I hate being sick, and I'm assuming that everyone hates it (except for those creeps who have illness fetishes). Whatever, I just hope I can go to school tomorrow.

I missed a bit at school today, but I'm not gonna go in detail because it's sorta my business.

Hope I'm well enough to go to school tomorrow. Bye.

Sick AGAIN

Well yesterday morning I went to Japanese school. Half way through the 3-hour class, I began feeling really cold. I got a jacket during recess, but it was still really really cold. Then I felt a bit dizzy. During the next recess I went to my mom's car to warm up. Well, I musta dozed off or something because the next thing I know, my mom's knocking on the window telling me that I'm late for class. Well yes, I looked at the clock, and I was about 20 minutes late for class.

I'll be the first to say that that was FAIL.

I went back to class feeling dizzy still, and I couldn't sit in place for very long. When we were finally released I rushed back to my mom's car, reclined the seat and closed my eyes. My mom asked if I was up to going out to eat, and I said I would be, only if we went to Olive Garden.

And thus we went.

Before we got to Mainplace, I took some children's motrin, even though I'm not really a child anymore (I'M A MAN). We went to get a seat, and by that time I wasn't cold anymore. In fact, I was sweating on the spot. The motrin kicked in just in time for the pasta, and so the lunch was quite enjoyable.

I spent the rest of the day feeling pretty good, almost like I was never sick. But later that night I started to feel pretty shitty again. I went to bed early hoping that this wouldn't persist to the next day.

Well it did I think, or it could be the motrin. I'm really not sure at this point, but I think I was feeling a bit light headed earlier. I showered and I went to my piano exam.

Yeah, the exam could have gone better I think. I'm hoping I didn't totally bomb it, but I could have done better.

Yeah well I got home and I played Call of Duty World at War for a good 2 hours. And thus I am here, making this blog post. Pretty weird weekend so far.

It sucks that I'm sick again. But this time I'm not gonna force myself to swim right away. However, I'm gonna try to swim on Tuesday because we have a meet on Wednesday and Friday. It's been weird lately; everyone's getting sick. I could name 5 people right now that have gotten sick, but you don't want names, do you? You people don't really care that much about my life and who my "friends" are anyway, so why should I type more just for YOU? PSHHH. Whatever people.

Lol.................... jk :D

I think the motrin is gonna wear off soon. It's been quite a few hours now. That's all I really wanted to say, whether or not you really care. This blog is for ME, and ME ONLY. You people just happen to be reading it. :D

Again, jk. I'm pretty drugged...

Well, I'm probably gonna post UNDERFIRE Deathmatch tomorrow on Youtube. I'll give you guys a link.

Peace.

Motion Tracking Sucks and the "Bitch" Scene

There are a few points in the video when certain no-no things show up: 2 license plates and an address. I had to cover these bitches up, but how to do so with a shaky camera?

Motion Tracking.

One would think that finding 2 isolated points in the scene should be no problem. But damn, it has to be the most frustrating thing I've ever done. The points would never stay in place, and they would go totally friki-tiki on me, so eventually I gave up. I did, however, manage to get it on one of the censor scenes and it worked like an angel. But the other times, not so much. So I decided to do the other ones manually. They don't look quite as good but they're okay. I really don't care.

There's this one scene in the video where Henry backs up against a wall and shoots to ward off Ryan around the corner. Then Ryan takes his gun and blindly sprays Henry dead. This was the most annoying scene to film, and also to edit. The filming I did while it was raining, with the camera in one hand, and an umbrella in the other. Took a few tries. Well, to make the muzzle flashes appear behind the gun, I had to basically outline Henry and his gun so that it was a separate cutout so that the flash could appear behind it. Now, I had to do this basically every single frame when he fires and when he's shot. This was a bitch to do because there were quite a lot of frames to edit, over 50 I'm estimating. Then, when Ryan starts shooting, Henry is half covering Ryan's muzzle flash. So I had to make a separate mask (outline) for that. Then, Henry's arm and gun go flying in front of the flash. I did a mask for that also. And then, to top it all off, Henry's foot flies up in front of the muzzle flash. New mask, what joy. Well, I edited this frame by frame, and overall took about four hours to do, just this 19 second sequence. What a bitch, hence the name, the "Bitch" scene.

Dunno if you understand me but oh well.

Well the video is actually done, but I won't post it until Monday because I'm that lazy. It's also my birthday today, AND I did edit, direct, film and act in the damn thing, so I should be able to do whatever the hell I want. So there.

Haha yeah it's my birthday today. I didn't make a huge deal about it at school, and I'm glad I didn't. Only one of my friends knew it was my birthday today. I told a few people and they didn't act too different anyway, so it's all good. Though, today was a good day overall.

That is my post for today. Haven't posted all week because of the video, but since it's done I'm free again. I'm so glad it's done; editing is very tedious and frustrating sometimes. I'm planning on NOT doing a project like this anytime soon, but I will have to EVENTUALLY. It's gotta come sometime....

See yaz on the flip side, yo.

Another Weekend is Over

Another weekend blows by. Let's take a look at just how things went:

Saturday I started off by going to Japanese school. Boring. Then I headed off to my piano theory test. Boring. Lasted an hour and a half. But I got an A on it, so I'm happy about that. The rest of the day I spent at home editing muzzle flashes and playing games. I got bored so I tried Left 4 Dead out with my friend, but our team sucked, so it wasn't too fun. Day of Defeat, however, was fun. I ended my day talking to Kristin and editing muzzle flashes.

Sunday I woke up coughing. I headed downstairs and immediately started editing. Then I thought I'd be somewhat productive for once, and I started my essay. However, that only lasted for about 15 minutes. I headed back to edit. I got a good chunk more done, but I still have many more to go. At around 12 o'clock, I was forced to start being useful around the house. I unloaded the dishwasher, and broke a bowl in the process. Then I went upstairs and washed the bathroom, which, for me, is the toilet, the floor and the sinks. I spent a good hour in that bathroom. Felt good I suppose for helping out. But I wouldn't do it usually.

Then I headed over to my friend's house with Roger and Ryan and we played Mah-Jong together for about 3 hours. Mah-Jong never ceases to entertain me. Good fun, I won twice.

I got home, and then I started working on my essay. Then I got bored and did math. Math took forever. Calculating anuity and half-lives isn't fun. Got back to my essay for a good hour, and I only got 1 paragraph done. Whatever, I'm just not feeling it.

And now I'm here. Pretty boring if I do say so myself. I'm not up to writing a lot, so I won't. Tomorrow I'll edit a bit, do some more essay, and some other things I gotta do. Nothing very special if you ask me.

Muzzle Flashes!

YES, finally I got you good people pictures of the flashes that are gonna be in UNDERFIRE 2. I spent all day working with it (taking a 2 hour break in between to play some games) and then some more working on it, and I think they look pretty good! I got you a couple of snapshots of what I have now.


This is the front view of it. I had it octagonal shaped before, and then I was messing with some effects and I got this "Sharpen Edges" effect, and now it looks like this. Looks pretty fiery. I think it's pretty good.


I know that you can't see all of it, but you get an idea of what it's supposed to look like. As you can see, it's quite large. I had some points poking out of the side before, and then I tried the "Sharpen Edges" effect on it, and I reduced the whole thing to a teardrop shape. I'm debating still whether or not the white is too small, but it's only because Henry's sorta picky. Oh well. I'm getting really excited for this video.

You might not be able to see it, but around each flash is a glow. Another special effect! Yes, it glows! I know, it makes it look more awesome, even though it appears for about 3 frames. Oh yes, I also used keyframed opacity on the flashes. In the previous UNDERFIRE, I simply put the flashes on for 1 frame with no spinning or variation. It looked good at the time, but it needed some life. I have it set now so that when the flash appears, it will fade out quickly in a matter of only a few frames. It makes it look more realistic, and it just looks cool this way. Woot. And, like last time, Gaussian Blur is used on the flashes to make it look "flashier."

Yup, so that's my update on the video, now I gotta do the rest and those really hard ones that I don't want to explain right now.

On a less important note [for you]: My ear is plugged again. But this is just more than a plugged up ear. It SWITCHED EARS. Yeah, my OTHER ear is plugged up now, it's really messed up. And since I took the motrin, I've been losing some feeling in my head and things have started to spin slowly. It's like being drunk, huhuhuhuh.

Yeahh, tomorrow's Sunday, I'll be editing in the morning and I'll be out later in the afternoon. Talk to you later, good people.