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| Wednesday, June 6, 2007 |
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PORTFOLIO UPDATE
Now that I'm not juggling school and work, I've had a little time to update my portfolio and demo reel. This is the car from Creepers. The car and a flower are the only things in the movie that I modeled (and I don't know if my flower was ever used). The texturing on the car was done by another student in the class. The majority of my time on Creepers was spent on animation and lighting. It was a lot of fun to look back on all the work I did last year and put it in one place. You can check out the new portfolio here.
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| Sunday, March 25, 2007 |
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SPRING
Spring has sprung, I guess. This photo is from a few weeks ago when we had our last big snowfall up here in Minnesota. I'm still not quite used to saying that I'm in Minnesota. But all is well up here and I'm in a really nice area. There's really not a lot to report right now. The snow has pretty much melted and work is going well. I'm really enjoying the life of an animator. The more animation work I do, the more I realize I have to learn. I guess that's a good thing because it means I have lots of room to grow.
I've also realized that I really need to stop using the word "really" so much.
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
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ANIMATOR!
I've finished school and CREEPERS is now done! This is the short animated movie that my graduating class at the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School made in our last three months of school. You can watch the movie on-line here.
This project was a whole lot of work, but it was well worth it. I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to work with. We nearly killed ourselves to get it done, but we had a hell of a lot of fun along the way. My whole experience at this school was great, and this really was one of the best years of my life.
Creepers may not be over yet. The creators are hoping to make Creepers into a series or possibly a feature film. Check out supercreepers.com for more info. And of course, check out daveschool.com for more info on the school.
So now what? Well, the school offers some additional classes to grads (for free!) and I was taking advantage of that. Then a few weeks ago, I found out that a company was coming to the school to recruit some people for a new animated television series. I really had my heart set on taking these additional classes but this was an opportunity to do EXACTLY what I had set out to do, and so I decided to go ahead and interview for an animation position.
Well, I'm delighted to announce that I got the job and I'm now working for Wet Cement Productions! I had to pack up and leave Orlando pretty quickly and make the long trip up here to Minnesota. Yes, I said Minnesota. Believe it or not, there are places that create animation outside of Los Angeles.
I can't say anything about the new series that I'm working on. It's standard procedure in this line of work to have a non-discloser agreement, but I'm sure in time there will be plenty of promotional material that I can share. I will say that what I'm working on is pretty cute and I think kids will love it.
It has been a little bit of an adjustment going from warm, sunny Florida to the frozen tundra of Minnesota. I've been told that for the most part, this has been a mild winter, however the first week I was here, the thermometer dropped to it's lowest numbers in a decade. I think the coldest it got was 20 degrees below zero. Add the wind chill on top of that and we had something like -35. It has since warmed up a little bit, but it's still near zero and pretty damn cold. I grew up in the north, so I'm no stranger to ice and snow, but I have to admit, the year I spent in Florida softened me up a little bit and you just never get used to this kind of cold weather.
Here's a little tip for anyone who might be traveling from Florida to somewhere up north where it's cold. Drain your windshield washer fluid before you leave. I didn't realize that the oil-change places in Florida used blue toilet water instead of windshield washer antifreeze. That stuff froze completely solid in my engine, and didn't thaw out until I started parking in a heated garage. Sure, that Florida washer fluid is rated at freezing, but so is water.
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