So I went back in, and to my surprise I had to draw again. This time testing me on concept art. Instructions was to create a character outfitted with moves/skills/styled after 5 items given on the paper, complete with a description about my creation, 100 words.

I flipped the paper and went, omfg. The five items were a rubber duckie, a set of cutlery, a boiling kettle, a blender and a hairbrush. Very interesting indeed...

So I thought for awhile and initially, the idea was to create some household superhero, throwing rubber duckie missiles at naughty children who mess up their houses and wielding all these... equipment to solve household problems. Then I thought about it further and decided it was too superficial, so I decided to go a little more abstract as it was kind of a boring concept... not thinking out of the box. Since the paper said I could deconstruct the items in any way I like, I selected bits and pieces of each item and created this martial artist adorned with various parts of it.

Took the brush and knife to form a polearm... the handle of the kettle for her shoulderpad... the cover of the blender for her belt, hair accessory from rubber duckie. Theme that I set for myself was some ancient chinese era... in any case, I ended up overshooting the time slightly (was writing the description when the girl came in to tell me time was up) because I got a little too engrossed unlike the first part, lol. Took me like 5 mins to think of a description and I couldn't help giggling at myself as I wrote it, it sounded so passable but ridiculous.

Then came the last part which was the lecturer interviewing me. He didn't really critque my artwork much, I guess he already looked through beforehand... he did say on the whole I showed some technique, but of course not the best out there. Asked me on my reason for wanting to be here... background... etcetc. It wasn't that hard an interview per se. I guess my passion really showed cause he sounded quite positive to what I said... and the interview overshot because occasionally we derailed to talk about other stuff about animation, lol.

Finished the interview. Was told that I would be mailed my results in 7 day's time. But interestingly the admin asked me to wait and disappeared to find the lecturer who stayed back in the room where we had the interview. Then later she came back and just said, " You passed". I was a little stunned initially, because I hadn't expected such a fast result. Anyway the next half an hour was a blur, getting papers, calling my parents about the result and basically just revelling in the outcome.

So... 2 more years of student life, and much more fun to come :)

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