Things here in the UK have been OK so far. Okay, maybe I slacked a little bit during the first week at the school but apart from that the BBQ's and next to free trips have been nice. I signed up for a few societies here in the uni in order to get to know more people and to see more places. First and foremost is the Interlink community (ran by an incredibly fast speaking French guy) that arranges different parties, trips and whatnot for international students. Naturally I don't have time to attend to all of them (there's something going on almost every other day) but the ones I've been to so far have been great. We had a barbeque two weeks ago during the last sunny and warm day of the autumn. We had some great grilled cheese with chicken and sauce while just laying on a grass in a sunshine of 23 or so celsius. Last week we went to Whitby for a day long trip. It was the first time I felt a little cold but I blame the strong wind and me not having gloves with me. Whitby is a cute little town built in the middle of hills and we had some of the World's best fish'n chips there!
BBQ (see the tiny grill around the middle of the picture!)
A nice bridge (forgot its name...) crossing the river that flows past our apartment.
A view next to our student accomodation.
Ditto.
Pretty good view over Whitby.
It was windy in there!
Many of Whitby photos are in the Facebook, so I don't bother reuploading them here.
The school started very slowly. During the first week I had only like three lectures each lasting about an hour. We were simply given introductions to the courses and descriptions of what we need to do. I presumed that the school would get more intensive the week after but who am I kidding! My final timetable shows that I have only 8 hours of school per week. On Wednesday, Thursdays and Fridays. I have a long weekend. We have done a lot of independent studies in Kajaani UoAS, but the studies here are still very different from those because we work alone instead of teams. So far I've found it difficult to do the required amount of work at home and I don't really feel like going to school to work because I have no idea which classrooms are available, on which days and for how long and I don't want to jump between rooms.
About the courses and tasks themselves: We have three different courses that last until Christmas: Character Production for Games, Environment Production for Games and Mechanical Asset Creation for Games. We need to create a high quality 3D asset for each of these courses. The environment production course will probably end up being a bitch for me because we have to learn UDK in the process as well so I can't just focus on the asset itself... The production of character and mechanical assets suit me much better. Those two courses are combined so that we have to design some kind of mechanical asset and an operator for it. I am going for some kind of WW1 era doctor/inventor character with a large tank/steam engine/car hybrid vehicle. We have 10 000 polygons to use for each.
The very first quick concepts of the vehicle I was thinking of. I have more of those pencil drawn doodle pages but I'm ashamed of them so you have to do with that one. D:
We have an online forum where we have to keep a diary about our progress, watch others' works and give them feedback. From a social point of view I am disappointed that I study with the second year students because they all know each other very well already so I'm just working silently alone all the time since they don't seem very interested in talking to me about anything even if I open a conversation. :/
Oh yeah! And I checked my weight yesterday while at the gym and for the first time in 4-6 years I weight under 80 kg! That called for a celebration so I bought chocolate milk, eggs and bacon!
That's all I can think of for now. Goodbye for now!
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