I've got a Mother Fucking Bachelor's Degree, FUCK YEAH

[AcetheSuperVillain]

After a long, hard struggle, my trials are over. I am the proud owner of a bachelor's degree in 3D Animation.

But this is not the end of my struggles. No! Now I shall begin a new reign of terror and destruction, the likes of which the web has never seen. Bwahahahaha!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

[evildumdum]

Congrats dude. Now get in the 3d rendered kitchen and make me a motherfucking animated sandwich.

[musical74]

Congrats dude!! I now you were really struggling whether it was worth it, good to see that you stuck with it!

[AcetheSuperVillain]

Congrats dude. Now get in the 3d rendered kitchen and make me a motherfucking animated sandwich.

A sandwich? A SANDWICH??? You dare ask Ace the Super Villain to make you a mere sandwich?

Very well then! I shall construct a sandwich so terrible that it will drive men mad at the sight of it! The world will remember the day these slabs of bread met meat and cheese as a day of darkness.

https://youtu.be/MCdpBtALw90

[MajorMajorMajorMajor]

Your sandwitch scares me greatly

[AcetheSuperVillain]

Okay, I'm going to rant a bit.

Partially, this is to do with people asking me, "Ace, why did you switch to 3D? 2D was great!" but also I'm asking the world, "Why haven't the rest of you switched to 3D? 3D is fucking awesome!"

From a logistical point of view, I modeled and rigged this sandwich and did the animation in like, 3 hours, a decent chunk of which was rendering and uploading, not actual work. Pretty fucking fast. Some artists could probably do a 250 frames in the same amount of time, but with shading and lighting and an establishing zoom in like that? Pfft, no. (Which technically, it's not 250 distinct frames, because there are several holds and you could animate on 2s, but still, try it sometime) I could have even pressed a few buttons and had this animation at 60fps.

And the kitchen! My god, that kitchen! Obviously, I didn't make the kitchen in 3 hours. I downloaded it from a website, for free. If I wanted to part ways with 16USD, I could have bought myself a sandwich as well. Which you're probably thinking, that's a lot for a sandwich, but they've got some really real looking bread and vegetables and shit. For example. Totally worth it if I thought I needed a realistic sandwich in my glorious new future of making porn. But my point is, if you're doing 2D animations, you would need to make all of that stuff by hand. Especially for games. Even though you can download lots of stuff for games, everything is different style, different resolutions, different angles, different lighting, it never works.

And now that I've modeled and rigged my sandwich, I can use it again for anything I want. You can't re-use stuff from 2D animations, unless you're making shit like He-Man, and most people these days would call you out for that shit.


So yeah, what the fuck is wrong with you people? Go learn 3D.

[Ungawa]

Congrats. See? The time went by like that and now you can professionally make risque art and create cartoons if needed.

[SaintSin6]

Okay, I'm going to rant a bit.

Partially, this is to do with people asking me, "Ace, why did you switch to 3D? 2D was great!" but also I'm asking the world, "Why haven't the rest of you switched to 3D? 3D is fucking awesome!"

From a logistical point of view, I modeled and rigged this sandwich and did the animation in like, 3 hours, a decent chunk of which was rendering and uploading, not actual work. Pretty fucking fast. Some artists could probably do a 250 frames in the same amount of time, but with shading and lighting and an establishing zoom in like that? Pfft, no. (Which technically, it's not 250 distinct frames, because there are several holds and you could animate on 2s, but still, try it sometime) I could have even pressed a few buttons and had this animation at 60fps.

And the kitchen! My god, that kitchen! Obviously, I didn't make the kitchen in 3 hours. I downloaded it from a website, for free. If I wanted to part ways with 16USD, I could have bought myself a sandwich as well. Which you're probably thinking, that's a lot for a sandwich, but they've got some really real looking bread and vegetables and shit. For example. Totally worth it if I thought I needed a realistic sandwich in my glorious new future of making porn. But my point is, if you're doing 2D animations, you would need to make all of that stuff by hand. Especially for games. Even though you can download lots of stuff for games, everything is different style, different resolutions, different angles, different lighting, it never works.

And now that I've modeled and rigged my sandwich, I can use it again for anything I want. You can't re-use stuff from 2D animations, unless you're making shit like He-Man, and most people these days would call you out for that shit.


So yeah, what the fuck is wrong with you people? Go learn 3D.

Congrats, I'm getting my BS in December. Computer Science. I feel you about 3D. I recently got back into dabbling in 3D as well. The game I'm making just would take way to much work to animate in 2D and you wouldn't even be able to view the action in different angles. I'm teaching myself with the help of my free Lynda.com subscription (courtesy of my college).

[GoRepeat]

Good work, Ace - you should feel very proud of your accomplishment. I hope you end up in a good place career-wise.

[Vaniloth]

Congratulations! A degree is quite an accomplishment. Sadly I'm working overtime for my degree, but achieve I will!