Sucks for those who are also friends on my live journal as they get to see this twice, oh well.

Been a good 25 weeks since I last posted anything relevant in my life publicly. I've been up to many different things and none of them have involved an interest in the online community.

Back in June I graduated from college with a Bachelors of Science degree in Animation. Three years and one hell of an education. Now, all personal biased aside, I had the second most impressive 3D demo reel there. My hat tips towards the man above, (.......) who is now working at Crazy Bridge Studios. Ironically with my degree in animation, I have no desire to be an animator. My The week prior to graduating I started my first job (though it was only a temp position) at Golden Era production as a CG generalist, animating gorgeous 3D scenes. To make things more interesting this Golden Era Studios is the HUB of all video and digital work done for the church of scientology. Say what you will but this studio definately knew how to treat you right.

Every day they had free homecooked buffet style lunch and dinners, with baskets of snack bars available at all times. Being scientologists they obviously have tons of money which needless to say meant I was getting paid in excess. It wasn't all good there however. There were downsides to working at this place. It was a 90 mile drive one way to get there, but that wasn't too bad considering they gave you a free room at a local hotel. The work required at least 12 hours a day 7 days a week, which was not a problem for me as I was very used to working without sleeping. I quit though after three weeks, as the separation anxiety from Malice was too much. I walked away with a few thousand bucks though.


Over the next three months between the september through mid october, I did a whole lot of nothing. I lounged about the house, playing games on my new 360, which was awesome but gave me some really bad carpel tunnel-like sensations after a while.

Durring this time Malice found herself a job as a shift supervisor for a starbucks and is earning much more than her previous job. She seems to be experiencing a relatively equal amount of job depression as her previous job but thankfully those feelings aren't originating from a similar problem.Metaphorically speaking I played the kid on summer vacation veging out at home while mom went out working to bring home the bacon.

Got a call back from a company I interviewed with 2 months prior, asking if I still wanted a job "hells yeah!" This happened right at the time of my lethargy where I was REALLY wanting to get back into the grind of work and production. All things come together beautifully sometimes.

Anyway, now I'm working at a 3D Architectural Rendering studio called Soft Mirage. You can check out their online portfolio and take a look at what it is I do there, at softmirage.com Also check out myhylandvillage.com to take a virtual tour of some environments I landscaped. It's a fucking swank job and I don't even mind the commute everyday. At least I don't mind it now, I'm giving it a year before I start seriously looking for a job closer to where I live and more game related. This is a great starting point though right after college and very much related to my portfolio's focus towards digital environments.

To any whom have active commissions with me. I regret to tell you I will not be completing them. I will however refund your money completely with a small additional amount as further apologies and thanks for supporting a starving artist at the time. Once again I am very sorry I lost the motivation to finish the commissions but, employment in the art field with steady income made me realize the insignificance of such petty things burdening my mental obligations.

more to come in the near future... if I can muster the motivation.