everyday... for a fortnight

I decided to start doing that everyday thing. Where you take a photo of yourself every day, and then put it in a sequence with depressing music. Except when I finally make a video of it I'll use some upbeat jazz. But for now, animated gif!

Midnight Sunday

EXT. STREET ASIDE LAWNTON TRAIN STATION - NIGHT
A MAN and WOMAN walk down the street, heading away from the TRAIN STATION.  On the other side of the street is KIERAN, walking in the same direction.  KIERAN is humming absent mindedly to himself.

                            MAN
              Look at that dickhead.

                            WOMAN
              Who him?

                            MAN
              Looks like he just got out of a nightclub.

                            WOMAN
              Pretty hot for a youngun.

                            MAN
              Wonder if he’s got two dollars.
                     (Calling across the street)
              Hey bro, you got two dollars?
                     (To WOMAN)
              I want a fucken burger.

                            WOMAN
              Ha.

                            MAN
              Hey bro, you got fifty dollars?  Wanna give it to me?
                     (To WOMAN)
              Or I could go over there and take it.

                            WOMAN
              Don’t be stupid, he could take ya.

                            MAN
              I could kick his lights out.

                            WOMAN
              No way, he’d deck you before you even tried.

                            MAN
              Hey bro, you got fifty dollars?

KIERAN realises the MAN is talking to him.

                            KIERAN
              Who me?

                            MAN
              Yeah bro.

                            KIERAN
              No, I’ve got nothing.

                            MAN
              Ah well.

                            WOMAN
              You got a sexy butt though.

                            KIERAN
                    (laughs)

KIERAN gets into his CAR.


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I wrote that down just for the act of writing it. Flex my fingers, not my creative muscle. Nothing really interesting actually happened there. The events and dialog is true enough. I don't know what resonated with me more, that suddenly I realised I was the guy the dude was going to force to forfeit $50... or if it was the fact that some drunk woman complimented my arse. At a guess I'd say it's probably the latter.

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    I hate the way blogger can't show you a preview of how your page will look until you publish it. If it looked like what they show when you click "Preview" it'd be very happy. But in reality everything is different, font size, type, everything. But most importantly formatting. It seems blogger doesn't automatically fix your HTML to show white spaces. So to get my post looking like it does above I've done a find and replace by hand on every instance of two or more whitespaces, and replaced them with the HTML equivelant ( & nbsp, without the space )
Kinda pretty frustrating right there...

full impulse mr sulu

My weekend was spent cleaning up the spare bedroom and transforming it into a neatly organised study. I'm all set up for working on my many various personal projects, which is thoroughly exciting.
Been modelling a bit of something. And I started learning a bit of XNA, as well as tossing around ideas in my head for little downloadable games. All highly interesting.
And I've just finished off a cubbeecraft character entirely made up of Dharma logos. I'll assemble it and take photos tomorrow perhaps.
Also, I've started taking my a photo of myself every day, to string together into one amusing video. It's an increasinly popular phenomenon on the internet, though I'm not sure I'll share mine until I'm certain it looks awesome.
From what I can tell the trend was started by this guy called Noah Kalina. He's been doing it since 2000. Just keeps going, check out his site.
And the video, up on YouTube

new year revolutions

New Year Revolutions...

1. Use my gym
2. Use my blog
   
3. Finish my UT3 character
4. zBrush stuff
5. Work on super secret project
6. Post on Polycount
7. Do at least one new character a month
8. Work less, get more done
9. ?!!!
10. Profit!
    

resume

Job Title: Senior Character Artist
Employed by: Krome Studios

Shipped Titles:

• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008)
  Playstation 2/ Playstation Portable / Wii
  Character Modelling/Rigging/Texturing/Materials
  
  
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels (2008)
  Nintendo Wii
  Additional Character Modelling/Rigging/Texturing
  
  
• Spyro: A New Beginning (2006)
  Playstation 2 / Xbox / Gamecube
  Additional Character Modelling/Rigging/Texturing/Materials

Responsibilities:
On Star Wars: The Force Unleashed I was responsible for modelling, texturing and rigging several main characters, bosses and enemies. Additionally I worked closely with animators to ensure smooth skinning of characters, and did final polish on most of the characters. I was responsible for liaising with the Character Team in our Melbourne Studio as well as managing and tracking the final polish of character models.

Education:

• Bachelor, Communication Design/Animation
  Queensland University of Technology, 2002 — 2004
  
  
• Certificate II in Multimedia
  QANTM, 2000 — 2001

pants

I swore I wouldn't, then I swore I would, then I swore I wouldn't again. But I did. I started my blog. After four years of inactivity I've started posting. Just for my own benefit, no one else's.