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[2011-09-21 15:13:29 +0000 UTC]
"Ad Victoriam!"
(Germany)
# Statistics
Favourites: 3198; Deviations: 364; Watchers: 183
Watching: 32; Pageviews: 32267; Comments Made: 28171; Friends: 32
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: To many to name. Some of the most important inspirations that affected my artstyle a lot are Eddsworld (Flashanimation), DanSyron (Animation/Anthro) and Fourthstar (Dragons and backgrounds)Favorite movies: Scott Pilgrim vs the world, Shaun of the Dead, Kung Fu Panda, How to train your dragon, Mononoke no Hime, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Surf s up
Favorite TV shows: Firefly, Simpsons, Evangelion, Wolf´s rain, Breaking Bad, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Futurama, Scrubs, Last Airbender
Favorite books: Metro-series, Rivers of London + sequels, Cliffhänger, Hummeldumm, Sherlock Holmes
Favorite writers: Dmitry Glukhovsky, Ben Aaronovitch, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Duh!- Just look at my favorite books =P !)
Favorite games: too many to name. But among my favorites are Fallout, Metro and Stalker. Also Metal Gear Solid and a cheesy game called Vanquish.
# About me
Call me EliJust an underdog from Germany with the will to improve!
I m sarcastic - You have been warned!
Mainly, I m a sparetime-artist that focuses on Comics and stories, Anthro and dragons! Sometimes I also do some fanart. I m mostly self-taught.
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# Comments
Comments: 7108
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Happy birthday!
Hope you have a good time on your birthday. Here's a birthday cake to wish you a happy b-day!
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It's been 1 year since I have left my account. Now I am back!
I see you aren't active here so I hope you are doing well in your life my friend.
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Hello back! Yeh, I m still alive but the last few weeks were rough for me. On the plus side: I have a new job from January on (marking my return to electronics) - Again, sorry for the inactivity over the last few months. I kinda fell into a big, depressing hole after finishing uni and working 60-hour-shifts for a shitty pay, but things start to finally brighten up again. So this time I ve returned! What were you up to the last few months?
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well isn't that one of the saddest things i've heard . you studied for ...... 3 somewhat years , and now you want to work in electronics again ?
not much , work , study , program stuff , the usual !!!
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Yeah, it kinda is. I just think electronics to be the safer choice. Art seems to be way to unstable to make a living, at least in Germany. If I do this, I m probably gonna be a freelancer / Indy-artist trying to do my thing. The last year was pretty much only disappointment and currently I feel like I didn t make any progress at all. And if I progressed in certain areas then only because I figured it out on my own. Uni kinda let me down on that one.
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believe me , it's the same here ( and i'm sure it's the same everywhere else unless you're REALLY good ) .
but don't feel disappointed . that's just how university works . they bring in some really famous professor/instructor to explain really basic stuff in 3 months , and leave the rest to you . that's how our professors were back when i studied math , that's how they are now that i study AI , and i attended 2 of the most prominent universities here .
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Yeah, you re probably right about that one. Doesn t really get rid of the fact that it is really frustrating to deal with. I don t know about your time-schedule, but we were thought the basics in 8 hours and then it was up to us. No wonder no one knew how to properly script or rig. We were hurrying from topic to topic without any real time to practice the newly learned stuff. And well, the problem with professors, assistants and so on: You never really knew, who to talk to when you had a problem. My feeling is, that all the staff at the university are the guys that couldn t find a job in the industry and did the teaching-profession as some sort of last-option. Really shady, that place, now that I think of it.
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oh it's frustrating , but i can somewhat understand why our professors did that . they had 3 months to teach 1200 pages , 2 sessions a week , 90 mins each . it's literally impossible to go to any details . i'm not sure about art though .
as for the second part , i know for a fact that our professors know their shit , since they're all hired by big companies ( one works for Siemens ) . so i can't really understand how you feel !!!
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art is more about practice, really. We don t have that many pages to go through, it s really all a matter of practice. There are the basics that wont take more than 100 hours and the rest is just working the shit out of it. However, they can t do 100 hours of lectures and then give us 500 hours of practice-time, so they move from one topic to the next. And I would say to become a somewhat decent rigger that can somewhat script and create rigs that work effectively and as intended really does need 500 hours of practice-time. Time, you don t really get since you re already moveing on with the lectures and you need that stuff for the upcoming exams. So you can t just decide to ditch that one lecture in order to work on your rigging-skills. So yeah, the big problem is that they cramped a 3 1/2 years long course into 2 years. It just means, that you get a bunch of people that somehow know rigging, somehow know modelling, know a bit about texturing and also a tiny bit of animation, but you don t get anyone who can be considered an expert at one of those fields. And well: I m not sure, if there are jobs for people with a degree but the same amount of knowledge as the guy with the digitaltutors-account and a big amount of spare time.
Well, we had some external tutors that actually work in the field (we had guys from Epic Games, Pixomondo and Südlicht holding lectures for a few days there), but the employed staff at the uni surely didn t really find a job in the field. At least, judging from some of those guys skills, social competence and ability to plan ahead.
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so , it's like math for that matter . there are formulas , and there's mastering those formulas , using them in ways you never thought possible . that's the problem with uni in general . so much info , so little time for learning them .
heh , if that's really the case , then yes , that place does sound shady .
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It s just so much info crammed into as little time as somehow possible - I don t like this system, really. Oh well, uni s over now, I passed my finals and now I m done.
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i agree , it should be easier .
now i'm remembering my early uni days days . we have to study Arabic for 6 years in our middle-high schools ( yes , 6 years for that dog-shit of a language , 14 pronouns , 12 different traits for every name , practically zero rules for telling feminine from masculine , etc. ) , literally EVERYONE i knew kept saying the same thing during that first semester , " at least we don't have to study Arabic anymore " !!!
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Hahaha, same goes for those poor fools around here that choose French as their exam-relevant subject in highschool!
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ah pity the foo who picks French instead of English ( the spelling alone gives me night terrors ) !!!
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Yup. Poor bastards! The spelling is really scary in its own way! So many letters you don t even notice are there while speaking / listening to French!
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i know !!! just look at " Peugeot " !!!
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Oh yeah! Pöscho! - Not spelled anything like that! Great job, France! - Also what s up with their way of counting? 9*10+9 for a 99 anyone?
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hey just out of curiosity , how do you guys count in German ?
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Nothing out of the ordinary, like in English. Only difference being, where in English you do ninety and two in German it s two and ninety for a 92.
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really ? that's ........ very interesting actually !!! i've never heard of any other languages with this system !!!
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Is it really that out of the ordinary? I know croatian uses the same way as German does!
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well .......... i guess since i've only dealt with Arabic , English and Persian , i'm used to our own kind of system !!!
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♥Put this on someone's page if you care about them♥
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Aw, thank you buddy <3 !
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*Slowly put magical dragon's friendship here.*
This message is for all dragon lovers. ;w;
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Aw, thanks a lot! Have a derpy Toothless in return 
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No problem ! :'3 Awah, a derpy Toothless <3<3<3 He's so cute x'3
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Hello! Sorry for being so inactive lately! Things have been busy down here! I m quite fine today, I m staying at a friend s house for a while.
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I understand, And I'm glad you're alright. But it had been so long, I thought I'd ask.
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Yeah, I know. Stuff has been pulling me down lately, so I wasn t much in a typing-mood, but now I m back.
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I was starting to worry about you, But I'm more than happy to see you're alright. How are things?
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Hehe, sorry! I ve been away quite a while I guess! Oh well, I was on vacation, started a turf-war with my ex-project-manager (That I ve won) and am now busy doing a written assignement. So basically the usual stuff. How is it going on your end?
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Things are going smoothly. I have started reading my history books, Again. You'd be surprised how filthy history can be!
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Well, I consider the human race to be quite garbage, so this doesn t come as big of a surprise as you would ve may guessed!
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That is the most accurate depiction of the human race I have ever encountered!
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