Alas, again it has been a long time since I last graced my own site with new thoughts. It’s a habit that I one day hope to be able to break, but I fear that day will not come until I am no longer an ambivalent student in a classical character animation program while attempting to learn digital special effects. At any rate, the word blog has been thrown in my face far too often lately. My excuse whenever asked, about my blog (since apparently everyone has them now) is that I already have a website… so… if people care about my daily happenings they can read all about them here. As you can see, that’s not exactly true as I tend to be at school more and more these days promising myself that I’ll endeavor more deeply into the realm of technorcery… digital magic… once the group films are out of the way. The film of course that I’m working on most likely will not be completed, which means that I will need to wait until the summer before further pursuing my passion.
Speaking of which, the clock is ticking down until the end of the semester (or at least it might be… the strike could actually make the clock tick up…), and I am starting to feel the heavy throes of not having a job lined up for this summer. Do I accept a position as a Flash Animator for the sake of being able to graduate? Or do I continue to hold out in hopes of getting something more directly related to the live action feature film industry? I like to think that I’ve worked hard these past months, acquired great knowledge from the precious tomes from Gnomon and Digital Tutors, when Sheridan has abandoned any notion of fulfilling their course outline in the area of Special Effects… but it seems that my options thus far have included either dropping out to work full time, or working for free. It’s bizarre that I could hold such attachment to a piece of paper… but I figure that it’s not worth my present $30,000 debt to walk out of this school without the degree. It’s not exactly tempting to work for free however with a debt like that as my very own Sword of Damocles…
I have figure drawings which I’ll try to throw onto the site in the very near future. After editing the gallery late last week, it feels like I need something new up here. On a side note, I’m pleased that during the portfolio submissions at Sheridan a few couple of weeks ago, an individual was inspired enough by a drawing I did that they took a photo of it and posted it on ConceptArt.org. It would seem that Batman was stood-up at Prom.