Euranim in Belgium

   It's nice to feel back home. I have spent a week in Belgium with one of my colleague, Marcus, from CGA. We had an opportunity to participate in a workshop held at Howest. It's a school where they are studying Gaming design (and they're doing it proffesionaly as well). The workshop is called EURANIM and is a project about videomaping. We were introduced in to the way of making projection on different surfaces. We had a nice teacher, but he spoke English not at the level we could understand him easily.
   Otherall the trip went fine. I was lucky to met some nice students from other institutions from France, Hungary, Finland, Belgium and England. It was also cozy to stay in the same hotel (the same room). Firstly, I thought it will be troublesome, getting to know new people and their habits it's hard to me. But actually, it became friendly and I miss their company and our small jokes about workshop. It really felt like a fast summer vacation at camping.
We had breackfast at hotel's restaurant accompanied with some majestic opera music. One of my workshop colleagues was Sonja, she enjoyed mostly this part of the day.

  

   In the last day we have visited a little of Kortrijk. The views there are quite similar to Viborg. I think it's a friendly city, I guess not so often we got honked by the drivers at pedestrian crossings.

I think they have cozy cafeterias in Kortrijk. We have visited one specialised in making coffee, we have almost the same in my home town, but the one in Belgium is a little more fancy.

   I have found some nice book illustrators in one library. It was quite an unique caffe because they had it combined with a book store. So, actually you can buy a book and after enjoy a coffee or cocoa reading it .

   This is how we worked at the workshop. We had a well equipped room, but we worked with our own laptops and tablets. The room was full of art made by howest students and they had some artbooks in the shelves as well. We breathed day by day the same air, we saw the same faces in front of us and we hear the same words <beamer, beamer, beamer> (actually meaning a projector) beamer
   We all used to play football game... except me, I played just once and I lost, but it was worth trying. I guess the photo was captured when the french girl, Lara, was doing her killing move in order to score. It was entertaining to watch and it took a lot of energy from us to play. We played table tenis as well!

 photo credit: Jessica Mehler

photo credit: Jessica Mehler

   We will have to wait a little for the final video from workshop. I can add here a small preview on what I did during the workshop. It was nice to work with general shapes and also it was nice getting back to toonboom for a while.

   The trip back home was safe and entertaining. We went to airport together with Finish girls. We managed even to get lost one from another. We were talking about maube meating one day, after 10 years remembering the workshop day. I think it was a nice experience.

I have really missed the view of Viborg. I felt really happy to come back and continue studying near my TAW colleagues.