Hey all, its been a while since my last journal, and I've finally gathered the initiative to make a new one. Nothing really big has happened in the past 2 months, but at the same time, there's just so much for me to do now.

Dreamworks visited RPI last week, and I attended the presentation they held. Two years ago, when I was a senior at RPI, they had come to visit and do basically the same presentation; show the work pipeline, explain how jobs there work, explain how to work on getting into the animation industry, and show demo reels of successful applicants. Back then, it was a rather positive thing for me; I saw that the work in the area I was aiming for (environmental/object modeling) was still above me, but attainable. I just had to keep working on it, and the woman that was running the presentation agreed when I talked to her afterward and showed her my work.

This time, it was a lot less positive. Economy woes, a lack of a need for new modelers, plus the fact that I'm no longer in college all added up to me being royally screwed. My best bet, I was told, is to hold out while the economy recovers (if it ever does at this damn rate) and get back to college. I'm looking now at Carnegie Mellon and a few others, but damn, I've got two months at most before applications for the fall are due. Hopefully I can work something out.

Otherwise, I've just been doing the same old - work at the restaurant, then work on art back home. Lately my hours keep getting cut, and I'm pretty much back to having to all but starve to save enough money for bills. I'm so glad I invested so much in college to get to where I am now! Sarcasm aside, I'm holding on, but changing focus a bit. I'm working on rebuilding my portfolio website in preparation for college apps and job apps, so submissions will be a bit light for a while. I'm also trying to determine what to do with my spaceship model. I keep adding more and more detail on smaller and smaller scales, and I have to decide if I'm going to do the entire exterior of the ship as I had planned, or just model the more local gun battery region, or go even further down and just model platforms and hallways. Whatever I choose, as long as I'm turning out high-quality renders that are portfolio worthy, I'll be content. It's just a fun side-project anyways; nothing too strict with what I do on it.

So yeah. Check out my website to see the current version:
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...or take a sneak peak at the newer version (link not guaranteed to go to a totally functional site, by any means):
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