Frame by Frame

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?

So I've hit the point at work where I've pretty much run out of anything meaningful to do, or anything that really involves me being at my computer that long. Basically I have to scan a whole bunch of papers and compile them into digital versions of themselves. It's not oging to be a fun process. At least I have my podcasts and my music to keep me entertained. Meanwhile, I just planned out a shot on my first X-Sheet (exposure sheet). It's just a scene of a ball bouncing across the screen and off the side of the wall, but hey I'm just gettin started! No idea if I have the timing right of anything but I'll see how it turns out. Actually I never wrote about it, but last Friday I got the two animation books I ordered from Amazon in the mail. The Animator's Survival Kit  and The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation. I"ve only read the Survival Kit so far, well about 1/3 of it. The author is talking about walks and such, but I'm going to stick with my ball ...

So I guess my life plan has taken a sharp turn for the better. While I was previously planning on staying down here in ol' Southern California, the rejection (I guess you can call it that) from CSUF put a bit of a halt on my progress. After some thinking and planning (and hopefully some more thinking and planning next weekend with my parents), I am hopefully going to be moving back up to the SF Bay Area with my family and saving up money to attend school up there. This provides me with the opportunity to save A LOT more money for school than I would have just staying down here. I'll save on rent, utilities, and most of my food every month. That's at least a good $1000 a month or so back in my pocket. This makes the tuition for school very easy to pay, as well as giving me some more money to play with if I need it. It also puts me in close proximity to the top two studios I probably want to seek employment at. Pixar is close by in Emeryville, and ILM is across the bay in SF....

So now I'm more fairly convinced I work with a bunch of idiots. I lied, I was convinced of that a LONG time ago.  Today, my department director was looking through her SENT e-mail box looking for an e-mail that I sent her......yea.... And then there's that time our department SVP asked me how to access his flash drive through Windows Vista. He said it used to pop up automatically in XP. I guess he never really clicked on the "My Computer" button in his life. I'll save some stories for later. Right now I have to go watch The Office  after the UCLA Basketball game is over.