My charitable project is now very much complete, and reception has already been quite promising. For those who wish to view it you can here. It was an amazing plethora of technical challenges and creative design; occasionally drove me nuts, but I think that's the nature of the work. I feel much accomplished for having done it and am glad it's serving a good purpose. If you're reading this and live in the lower BC mainland, I highly encourage you to donate as well; the cause is quite just.
Also, through networking at a rather unique CG/Steampunk event a couple weeks back, I have an opportunity to start a webcomic for a local animation related website. This is very exciting and nerve wracking at the same time. A weekly publication that would run for about a year, but now that I've ironed about a bunch of the lumps, I think it's quite achievable and am really grateful for this opportunity. I had to be proactive and pitch my idea, which was liked, so hopefully next week on www.vancouveranimation.ca my work should be published weekly! Also a great way to gain some recognition and just generally be creative. Here's the first prototype issue; rather relevant to current local media:
New assignment has been going on for school the past couple weeks as well, the all encompassing 2 person dialogue shot. After sifting through near half of every movie ever produced, I narrowed down my choices of audio clips and after a long deliberation of determining what I wanted to achieve with this shot, I ended up choosing a clip from The Wedding Crashers. It's highly emotional and shows good anger and fear; plus I was able to throw it way out of context and do (what I think) is a rather original take on it. Still in it's base blocking stage, I am definitely hoping I'm not getting too far over my head, or that I inadvertantly offend someone or come off as a masochist or pervert :P but I think I'll be fine and this is just how the story evolved.
