Frame by Frame

Yup, so I'm officially up in Northern California again. Back under the parent's nest for what is sure to be a very long 18 months at minimum. I'm guessing more like 2 years to be realistic, maybe even more. *Sigh* But good news, is that I've gotten most of my stuff unpacked. Got a nice workstation going with two monitors. I still had my old 17" laying around, so I said "what the hell", and dualed it up with my 24" widescreen. It's pretty awesome so far I have to say. *In real blogging time, I actually just re-adjusted the position of my seat/keyboard/moust, and the angle of the larger monitor. The smaller screen felt too far away, like i'd have to turn my head too far to the right, as compared to turning my head to the left of the larger. Now it feels all good.* I saw someone that had the same 24" I have on sale for $179 on craigslist the other day. I was tempted....would be nice to have two monitors of the same size and make. But nah, I

Sorry not a real update, in the process of moving all of my stuff back home to norcal. Fun times....not really. Moving is hard. But anyways, just a minor cosmetic change, I put my twitter feed over on the right side of the page now. Just for fun, since I update that more than the blog. You can click on the link to follow me on twitter as well.

All I have to say is....Holy. Shit. I actually avoided temptation to watch the trailer that was posted on youtube and apple yesterday, to not spoil my viewing of it today on IMAX in 3D. It started out a bit meh in the 3D department. Some of the shots looked pretty darn convincing with a convincing depth of field. But the preview started to really take off when we saw some of the CG. The level of detail and realism that is created and the imersion is pretty mindblowing. The imersion not so much, there are a few points where it really shines, but others where it's a bit off. But if you've seen the apple trailer think about this. All of the Na'Vi and the wildlife on the planet (Pandorum?) are completely computer generated. The forest looks like a forest that was filmed with a real camera, with a real, 10 foot tall actor with blue paint and prosthetics on his face running. I mean, I know that the Na'Vi we see on screen are completely from the computer through some sort of &

Updated the logo again. I was just looking at it and thought there should be something in the upper left/center filling the space, so I decided to add a sort of subtitle or description to the logo. Then for some reason I wanted to draw a guy hanging from the g by an umbrella, so I drew him. I couldn't leave it there, so I drew a small army of stick men just doing random things. I might make this a tradition and keep adding stuff to the logo when I see fit.

I doubt that many people actually read my blog in the first place, so I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't get linked here from my old location on wordpress. I had some customization issues on wordpress, and you know what, I don't feel like paying to do custom stuff I should be able to do for free. So I ended up here. Within 20 minutes I got the page to look more or less how I want it to (well, I'm gonna tweak it some more when I get home later), and I can fit my custom drawn logo on it! None of the stupid wordpress free layouts had a big enough banner area for it to fit, nor did it let me tweak the CSS code to make it fit. Bastards. Anyways, I hope from this point on in, the blog flows smoothly. I plan on keeping it up throughout my time in Animation Mentor and hopefully after as well. Peace.

More life drawings! Yea, I'm gettin pretty boring, but you know what, I can't really think of anything to write about. At least not a serious blog post. I could write a rant about something if I wanted to, but I should probably do best to keep my swearing rants to myself and free from here. Some might slip, but hopefully not soon. Anywho, had my last life drawing session today. The first two are 20 min poses, the last one was a 40. I dunno, I think I'm getting better.... This one I like. The teacher had some brown paper and colored pencils since he uses those, so I tried doing a figure shaded with a white pencil. I think this method was actually a little easier to get the hang of after a few mins. Might try some more stuff like this later.

So today I've told work I'm leaving on the 21st. I was planning on not telling them until next week, but on friday at the end of the day, my boss was talking about me leaving for school and was asking me questions about it. I decided not to ruin his weekend and just tell him today instead. Anyways, I haven't posted any more life drawings since a couple weeks ago. It's a little hard because the paper I use is larger than my scanner, and it is also inside a hard-bound sketch book. I'll post them chronologically from top down. I think I've gotten better since the batch below don't you?