I'm flying high up up in the air...~!

I just got back from 2nd interim presentation with RMIT moderators for my Major Project. I'm feeling so high dat i'm flying high in the sky!

this time the moderators present were Adam Nash and Nicole Lawther. i wasn't feeling dat nervous than i did before, as i think i've done the best i can up to this stage. eventhough i only have a quarter potion of my whole animated piece done, i still think dat's the best i could come out with so far. so i went... mine was the 3rd session @ 9.30 am just now. i arrived skool at 9.00 am, just nice to get myself ready and preload my work into the computer.

my turn came and they say they'll just play it, so they did. upon seeing d title in the beginning, the oohh ahhs begins. well, i used d same effect in my MTV thing before so to me it's nuthing, but they liked it. for the record, my story piece i think is the longest among us all sem 6 students, it got up to 4 minutes plus now. while the allowed one is 2 mins or 3 mins max. but for my case, all the lecturers and moderators haf been telling me that it's fine and there's no way for me to cut it down, because the nature of my story piece is long, if it's short, the whole idea is gone or prolly gets boring.

the part i noticed most moderators like was my style. previously, Mr Peter Kennedy and Mr Stefan Greuter said the same thing, today both Nicole n Adam Nash said they loved it too. Nicole even said if i continued animating JUST the style i used for my animatics, it would've been great too, but since i painted, it looks even better. She said my style has it's own originality and authenticity that i should use it throughout my entire time in the animation career. Career? wow we're talking careers already! and Adam just repeatedly saying that I am very talented and it'll be sucha waste if i don't continue in animation or even illustrations. whoa... hmm... this is dangerous. I'm being praised and praised and... hmm... dangerous.

funny. i never feel like i'm a good painter. never. ever. i feel dat i'm very slow and... i paint ugly stuffs. when people appreciate me like this... i just don't know how to react. all my life, even when i was in school i've always envied people who paints and draws nice and neat stuffs and wished i could paint just as nearly as they do. i even took engineering before this thinking that i'm never gonna be good in arts. but i guess Nicole was right, my paintings, eventhough it looks... FUGLY (no she didn't say fugly hehe she said chalky), but it's original and has it's own authenticity. i've only discovered this style since i go to limkokwing, at 25 years old. late... yeah, i discovered myself so late but maybe it's never too late for anything. i hope it is also not to late for me to go into the industry. i'm gonna be a 27 years old fresh graduate, unlike others, 20-21, young and vibrant, while me, i am a mother of two. rezeki anak? i'm counting on it!

my hopes of getting into sumkinda award rekindled. it faded out earlier this semester but with all these positive feedbacks, my spirit sumhow revived, and 4 more weeks to get all this done, i'll hafto strive through it!

friends... soulmates, i hope u all pray for me and be with me all the way. i need your support and will try my best to appreciate every single moment u guys spent to put hopes on me...

I am still flying... up in the air~!