Plenty of things have happened this
week. I got a package full of Danish (and some Swedish) candy from my
parents, we went out dining at a Danish-ish place to test just how Danish it was, we've been playing around with helium balloons,
covering our ears because of a fire alarm testing and Cherry left for
HK and Japan and won't be back for two weeks ( :( ).
The differences between Canada and
Denmark are becoming more and more clear every day. I feel that it's
the subtle differences that set us apart, besides the obvious things
like architecture, our history and language, it's also our different
taste in food and humor that I find deeply interesting. Thus I was
pleasantly surprised when three people from the studio actually liked
the licorice with salmiakki that I brought in. When we went to the
danish restaurant, it seemed that most people liked the food! I won't
go into detail about what was wrong and what was right about the
food, but all in all it was a fun experience and I was really excited
to get to share something danish with the rest of the studio. Ever
since I got here, I've become more aware of how much I actually
appreciate my own country, and I think I've talked more about Denmark
in these two months, than I have in my entire lifetime. It's not
because I'm homesick, on the contrary I LOVE being here, and I love
how being here has made me more aware of how my own country is put
together.
Another thing that I think
the entire studio knows by now, is that Sweden and Denmark have a
love hate relationship for each other. It's our duty to hate each
other and it's deeply rooted in our history, but if I meet a Swedish
person outside of Scandinavia, we will greet each other like family!
You love the people you hate....yeah?
But
more importantly, we don't like to get mixed up, hence why when I
showed Darien our Danish beers, Darien and I are no longer friends.
It was nice as long as it lasted. Only kidding, Darien is great.
And
I'm finally conquering Flash! The program is less scary than when I
first started out and I'm getting up to speed. I feel like the style
of Todd is more natural for me to both draw and animate in, and for
the first time in a long time – weekends are becoming a bore, and I
genuinely look forward to Mondays so I can come back to work, see
people and get cracking with my scenes! I'm so happy that everyone
always has time to help and give me advice, as it has really helped
making the experience of learning a new program, a lot less scary
than it could have been.
The
scenes are also really fun and challenging and a good mix of having
different characters with various traits to keep in mind while
portraying them, and a mix of both puppet-animated scenes, and full
on skewed hardcore perspective and classically 2D animated scenes. It
feels good to try both out and be trusted to do both :)
-
Bendix
