Blog Post

It's been a while since my last update. Things have picked up here in California, I got a nice job at a web design firm, got some cool things at the local flea market, etc.

One thing that Utah seriously lacks is a decent flea market (or any flea market, for that matter). The only thing that comes close are the Deseret Industries buildings scattered across the state. Still, they can't hold a candle to the offerings of Denios. You can get anything at Denios, and it will almost always be decently priced. Newer stuff tends to be harder to find, but if you go often, you'll probably find it eventually. If I had been in Utah, I would never have picked up two of the latest Wacom tablets for $15 a piece. Though, I think I may have created a monster...

Yes, there are three tablets plugged into a tablet PC. Aside from the Tablet PC, all were found at Denios. The really big one only cost me $5.

California does not have TCGT11's weekly gesture drawing session, or BYU's weekly figure drawing session. Sacramento seems to have no figure drawing sessions. Which is odd, since CA is a more liberal state. Still there's the local "Pompsicle" drawing session that allows me to draw things I probably wouldn't find in Utah, such as Star Trek punk rockers. Electric guitars, phasers, and three hours of Star Trek-themed rock music playing in the background. Do you know what to make of that? I don't.

So the next portfolio deadline to get in the animation program is the 8th of August, and my last portfolio is some kind of limbo or something somewhere in Provo with all my best figure drawings at the time. I can't justify making $50 all-day trips to San Franscisco every week (), so I'll probably have to resubmit any of the figure drawings I had scanned into my computer. It's better than nothing, and my sketchbook is already better than the one I submitted. At least, I think it is. I don't remember what I had in the last one. For the animation, I could use what I submitted before, but I'm hoping I can get my current project complete enough to submit. It involves The Sandwich Shop Ninja, and looks to be coming around to 5 minutes long. I had decided to do some seriously detailed backgrounds that push Flash beyond what it's meant to do, for some reason, so those will seriously determine how long until it's done.

[Edit]

Okay, I guess I exaggerated the cost of gas. Thanks to Mapquest, I found out that it would only cost me $27.30 to make the 223-mile round trip at $4.65/gallon. Still, its expensive. And I would spend more time driving than actually drawing.