With my younger brother and nephew both currently in their first years of school for Animation Media Arts at two different Art Institutes, it made me reflect on my learning experience.  I realized that since I started learning 3D in 1998, I haven’t stopped.  I always thought that one day I would be able to catch up and know every aspect of at least one 3D application completely and then just review new features when they come out.  Turns out that was pretty naive and wishful thinking.  Read more

Oftentimes when working on a job we’ll realize that what we’re working on would also be a pretty cool desktop image. So of course we go ahead and render out a frame for that purpose. A bit self-indulgent I guess, but it is still better than that default Windows hill picture with the yellow flowers. Mac users still have better default options, but I am not declaring I am a Mac or I'm a PC anytime soon. Anyhoo, here are three of those we've done in the past that we think people may like. They are not obtrusive unless you have 50 icons on your desktop. Read more

First, let's get this out of the way… I'm not a writer, I’ve never blogged before, I don’t tweet, I don’t even have a Facebook account, so how am I supposed to start this thing out?  I don't want to create a plain old introduction because what fun is that?  So instead I'll create an establishing shot: