Some of the animations I did in this semester's group project! It was a short, almost two minute animation but I devoted a lotta time into making sure I was satisfied with it.
It's my hope to one day join an indie project, and if that day ever came, I wanna be sure I can improve as much as possible before then.
The backgrounds and compositing was by @nyanrial ! I only did the first half of the animating! I'm so genuinely grateful for my two other team members :( <3
BTW- whether or not I'll share the full thing isn't certain yet. Assume not!
heya! hope you’ve had a good day. i woke up with a really sore throat and migraine, which wasn’t pleasant. i was gonna work on the instrumental for the next song on the album, but my head was just too sore. The good thing is I’ve had some more time to think about what I want the instrumental to sound like. I’m thinking very warm with some strings and buzzy, warm bass. I’ll see how I feel tomorrow, hopefully I can get started on it.
Other than that I’ve had a good day. Went shopping with my mum around 4pm. I was able to find a copy of ‘Macbeth’! I had been looking for it for ages and just couldn’t find one. Success at last haha. It’s my favourite play of Shakespeare’s, I studied it in Year 9 and was obsessed with the plot. Can’t wait to read it again. I’ll put a pic of the version I got in this post :)
That’s gonna be all for now, I’m pretty tired and sore so I’m either gonna collapse into my bed or watch some of ‘The Big Bang Theory’. Sometimes TV helps my headaches, other times it doesn’t. We shall see haha. Until next time!
308: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever // Hope Downs
Hope Downs
Rolling Fevers Coastal Blackout
2018, Sub Pop (Bandcamp)
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, one of those borderline-insufferable indie rock names like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Two-Door Cinema Club that seems to confirm every negative stereotype about the genre in a single phrase, rolled into my life in the spring of 2018 and went into near constant rotation for a solid year before slipping almost entirely out of memory until I pulled this record off the shelf today. A Melbourne five-piece with three guitarists who all sing (and all sing kinda the same way), Rolling Fever Coastal Blackouts were owners of the most propulsive jangle of the late part of the decade, the kind of band who put wheels on your feet if you’re walking and wings on your wheels if you’re biking or driving. Absolute summer montagecore lads, and as I sink back into the grooves of their debut LP Hope Downs I’m won over all over again. Nearly any of these songs, with their mileage-eating consistency of four-through-the-floor pace and thousand-yard-stare affect that make three minutes sound like five or seven, could satisfyingly open or close the record or a show. 35 of said minutes is just the perfect amount to leave you balanced on a knife’s edge as to whether to play the whole thing over again if the record’s done and your errand isn’t. There’s an easy mastery of dynamics, the sense of just when to step in with a harmony to kick things up a notch—I’ve seldom heard a better set of these tricks than this record’s “Exclusive Grave.” Jangle pop’s a well-worn genre, so there are plenty of easy names to drop here (Aussie and otherwise), but I don’t think it’s needed—Rolling Coastal Fever Blackouts are a refinement rather than a revolution, but they’re a refinement of a sound that to me’s as necessary to the continuation of life as the song of those ancient monks who can’t stop chanting or the world’ll end. Probably only the spirit-freeing “Talking Straight” transcends Hope Downs’ confines to stand on its own as an enduring anthem, but within its environs, there’s a long ribbon of pleasure that can easily become a figure-eight if you let it.