Oregon Transplant

No animating will be done this coming week! Nothing!
The family and I are in Oregon, visiting my folks' place. Tons of snow (tons) and our daughters' dogs guarantee not a moment of boredom.

Tron's Coming Along

I'm trying to knock out one shot per night after work on my friend Scott's arcade cabinet idle animation. This first one is Tron, and will probably run about 30 seconds or so (just pulling that number out of my ass, honestly).



The next one will probably be Pac-Man, likely followed by Q-bert. After I've learned to model, rig and texture my own cartoon characters in Maya, I plan to tackle Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. Tall order, I know.

Oh! Tee! Oh! Tee! Oh! Tee!

And so it begins. Short notice today that we'll be doing ten-hour days all week, starting now! And maybe a Saturday thrown in to boot! Bye, wife! Bye, kids!
On the plus side, extra cash for car repairs...

Where's my head?

How could I have failed to mention I got hired at SPI?
Over two freaking months ago!
I'm at Sony Pictures Imageworks, animating guinea pigs, moles and flies, for Disney's G-Force!Now that I'm past my initial first-time-on-a-feature-film, oh-my-god-I-don't-belong-here jitters, it's actually getting to be a lot of fun! I knew this would be a better job than hotel bell clerk! Also with Disney, coincidentally.

My First Tron!

Yay! I'm working on my friend Scott's "Surgeville" game cabinet idle animation.
And I finally got the Tron stuff looking like I want, so I went ahead and dove right in.