Holy Cow, where has the time gone? It's Halloween already. It seems I only manage to post to this thing about once or twice a year. I guess it's hard to summarize what's been going on with my life with any sort of coherence, at least enough to make it worthy of posting online where anyone can get to it. I've never been much of a "diary person" growing up. Usually it's all I can do just to keep up with Facebook.
A lot's happened to me over the course of this year. Me & Mani finally moved out of my parent's apartment & got our own place. That was a major relief. You don't know how good it feels to have your own living space until you're finally there. Mani was pregnant, and then she wasn't. It was a very emotional time & I don't really want to go into it right now. We lost a couple friends, gained a few more. I've bounced around between playing several games, most notably Portal 2, Fallout 3, Team Fortress 2, Starcraft 2, Heavy Rain, Red Dead Redemption, and most recently Batman: Arkham City. Rincewind the Chinchilla is cute & fuzzy as ever.
I've been lazy & let Anansi slide, unfortunately. We finally got a new Wacom tablet so I really don't have an excuse anymore. One thing I HAVE been doing recently, outside of my usual animation work for Yourcards.com (shameless self promotion): I've been submitting animations to Loop-de-loop.org. They are an Australian website that does themed monthly contests for looped animation. One I'm particularly proud of was for the "Mask" Theme a couple months ago. You can see the animation here. They actually screened it in a show in Melbourne, AU last month! That's pretty cool. My work around the world! I'll try and embed the video directly later. It's something to keep me working on independent stuff on a semi-regular basis at least. Here's some stills:
That was fun.
I suppose I'll leave you with that for now. Hopefully It doesn't take me another 6-12 moths to check back in. Same bat-time, bat-channel!
