I must admit, it’s good to no longer be a professional student! I started work at Side Effects Software Inc. a week after graduating, and I think I’m finally getting into the swing of things there, and hopefully I can start producing some kick ass animation soon. If you’ve used Houdini before… you probably understood the title of this update.
Aside from work, one of the big perks of graduating is that I now feel like I have spare time! I started playing guitar when I was in grade 10, but unfortuantely I pretty much put that on hold once I started college. Now that I’m a free man though, I’m hapy to say that I’ve picked it back up. If you think that my playing is rusty after all this time… you should check out my strings! I bought a new bridge though, and Haven’t bothered to put (all) the new strings on yet as I’m looking at getting the truss rod adjusted. I wouldn’t have put any of the new strings on yet, but sadly one broke. Guess that’s what happens with 4 year old, rusty strings though.
I also bought an E-MU 0404 (basically an external sound card), and I must say it’s awesome! Absolutely -no- hiss when recording, and I hear parts of music with it that I didn’t know were even there! This has rekindled my listening-to of my music collection, and in fact I’ve bought a few new cds. Reign of Terror’s Conquer and Divide (not a bad find… but not terribly exciting), Uli John Roth’s Metamorphosis of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (very very good if you like classical music with electric guitars), Lacuna Coil’s Unleashed Memories (All around solid album… no complaints), Megadeth’s United Abominations (The more I listen to it, the more I love it. Very Risk/World Needs a Heroish), and finally Paul Gilbert’s Get Out of My Yard. Crap… the title track on that album is enough to give me a hernia with how awesome it is. I can’t wait for the new Symphony X and Dream Theater albums next month!
Now that I’ve got some equipment together, I’ll probably be practicing frequently enough that I’ll get my fingers back into shape and play some rawked out rock.