Hey how are you?
Pretty swell. How are you?
Doing srll. What is your chat name? It isn't showing. Well
mike
Oh hey mike, enjoying the break?
oh yes!! It was a pretty rough semester for me haha. How about you?
Yeah definitely. I got sick two days ago and I have been sick for the past couple of days. My semester was good. One of my exam scores stil hasn't posted and it is making me c Cray! Crazy
oh that's the worst! I had the last of mine posted today. I was stewing about it all weekend haha So do you have anything fun happening over the break?
No not really. I am heading back up to school to start spring semester pretty soon.
Me either!
so my break finishes today
Yeah, it's so short haha. Classes start tomorrow!
I know
Hopefully your class load for spring isn't too heavy?
No, i just have 6.5 credit hours I mean it's my first one Don't want to overload myself
First semester at BYU? Are you still there?
Yeah I cant see your response though
Oh that's odd. I was just asking what you meant by "first one". Like first semester at BYU? Haha this thing is being kind of glitchy, isn't it?
Still
That's interesting... My end seems to be working ok. Are you on a phone or something?
Yeah
Huh. Maybe that's it... very strange....
Yeah. What was it that you said?
I was just asking what you meant by "first one". Like first semester at BYU?
Yeah first time with a summer semester
oh ok. Gotcha. That makes more sense Yeah I really like spring/summer classes They are a lot more chill
Really?
Yeah, it's interesting. From my experience they move a lot quicker (just cause they're shorter) but they generally feel a lot less stressfull Probably in part because you're only doing like 1-3 classes instead of like 4-6
Interesting I am excited
I've done at least one class over spring/summer each year. It's nice to get your classes done faster haha
Yeah
Do you mind if I ask what you're studying? I'm a computer science major
Yeah I am studying acme What do you plan to do with it?
oh cool! I actually did the animation emphasis. So I'm going in to visual effects. It's pretty fun
What do you focus on with animation? The only thing I know is that animation is used to make those japanese cartoon.s.
haha. Basically it focuses on computer graphics. Because almost all animation these days is Computer animation
How do you do it?
So the computer science animation emphasis focuses on both some of the artistic parts of computer graphics as well as the technical aspects of how a computer generates 3d grap graphics So a lot of the effects stuff is based on simulations of real life things.. Like water for example The computer simulates how water reacts and moves.. So an effects artist sets up those simulations Does that make sense? It's sort of hard to expalin over chat haha *explain